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Put the meaning in the greening this Thanksgiving

Another fabulous guest post – this one is from my friends Lynn and Corey from Celebrate Green Making every celebration more about people and less about things is a key to celebrating green. When we focus on relationships, we tend to spend less, eat less, have less left over and end up putting less into [ READ MORE ]

Let fallen leaves lie

I’m happy to have my friend Carole Brown guest posting today. Thanks Carole! When you’re done reading this, you’ll want to check out her blog for more great advice like this. The streets in my neighborhood are lined with bulging paper bags. It’s an amazing phenomenon that happens this time every year, as people devote [ READ MORE ]

Lessons learned while growing greener

Welcome to my 500th post. About two years ago, on September 26, 2007 to be exact, I began to figure out this blogging thing. At first I posted sporadically. I didn’t use photos and the font was way too small. I’ve gotten a little better at blogging since then. Here’s my first post in it’s [ READ MORE ]

Things are rough all over, Ponyboy

This is my 497th post. I’m still deciding what to do for the big 5-0-0, but for the few posts leading up to it, I’m going to look back at some of my previous posts. Please indulge my reminiscing. I know we’re supposed to believe that the economy is getting better. Perhaps it is on [ READ MORE ]

Planning vacation with a green focus

I’ve been slowly going through past pieces that I’ve written for other sites that aren’t there anymore. Here’s one a came across today that I wrote after we returned from a trip to Arizona last year. ____________________________ My least favorite part about going on vacation is preparing to go. We just got back from a [ READ MORE ]

Do you sometimes wish you could…

use poisonous chemicals to keep the furry four legged critters from eating all your green beans in your garden? eat off of paper products all the time so you didn’t have to do the dishes? bleach your kids’ horribly dingy socks? shop till you drop? let your kids eat Peanut Butter Cap’n Crunch every morning [ READ MORE ]

Greening the end of school

It’s the last week of school. I cannot wait for the boys to be done school so we can slow down our pace and have fun. We’ve all earned it. As the kids come home with backpacks full of stuff, here are some ideas for greening the end of school. Go through everything that the [ READ MORE ]

Greening the summer reading list

Schools are ending for the summer (yay!), and children are coming home with summer reading lists. You may even have some books on your list that you’d like to read when you have some extra leisure time this summer. I’ve created a list for myself* so I make sure that I can in some pleasure [ READ MORE ]

You aren’t still using plastic bags, are you?

It’s been a while since I’ve brought up reusable bags. But a couple of items caught my attention this week, and I thought the subject was worth bringing up again. The first is that this past Monday was one year since China banned supermarkets, shops and other markets from supplying free plastic bags. In that [ READ MORE ]

Live like it’s the norm

Yesterday, being the crazy woman that I am, I had my son’s 7th birthday party/bbq in the late afternoon after his final performance of a community musical that he was in. He did three performances over the weekend and they were all fabulous – the DVD of Friday night’s performance will be on a continuous [ READ MORE ]

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