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Book giveaway: Tar Sands – Dirty Oil and the Future of a Continent

I’ve got to admit – I haven’t read this one. I was sent two copies of the book by a company that had me review a different book. I intend to read it at some point, but since I’ve got two copies, I figured there’s no use in both of them sitting on my shelf [ READ MORE ]

Finish this quote: The man who does not read good books has …

I’ve read a lot of books about being green, going green, sustainability, environmentalism, organic & natural food and our broken food system in the past couple of years. And there is still a pile of them waiting to be read. A new one just arrived in the mail yesterday. I haven’t written about all of [ READ MORE ]

Oops! I forgot to pick a winner!

I totally forgot to pick a winner in last week’s book giveaway. The 4th of July holiday kind of threw everything out of kilter. It was a great holiday, by the way. Lots of time for good friends, good food (lots of it local), and good small town celebrating. Okay, on to the winner of [ READ MORE ]

Book giveaway: David Suzuki’s Green Guide

Welcome to week two of Robin is purging her office. Actually, we’re purging lots of rooms and spent the better part of the last two days clearing out the room we call The Internet Cafe. It’s a small room right off the kitchen that has the boys’ computer in it, book shelves and a small [ READ MORE ]

And the winner is…

deoxy! I’ll be shipping National Geographic’s True Green Home to deoxy who told us about one way she goes green in her home Right now I’m trying to make my skin care greener and less toxic. I’m using jojoba oil as a moisturizer while I use up the rest of my cleanser. When it is [ READ MORE ]

Book giveaway: True green home

It’s time to purge. My office is getting out of control, and I have to do some clearing out before I get swallowed up. I’ve been sent quite a few books over the past year to review, and I thought I could share the wealth with my readers by giving some of them away while [ READ MORE ]

Books: The Green Teen by Jenn Savedge

My colleague Jenn Savedge, the parenting blogger from MNN, must be one super organized mom because not only does she parent two kids (hey, I do that), write daily for MNN (hey, I do that, too), and keep her own personal green blog, The Green Parent, (hey, I’ve got a personal green blog – this [ READ MORE ]

Organic labeling rules

I was sent a copy of Sara Snow’s Fresh Living to review for MNN, and I’m really impressed with the book. I’ve been entrenched in this green stuff for about two years now and no longer consider myself a newbie. So when a book that is meant to discuss the basics of what you can [ READ MORE ]

Book Review: Serve God Save the Planet

I mentioned Serve God Save the Planet by J. Matthew Sleeth in one of my posts the other day and said a review would be coming. I wrote the review for Sustainablog so you can go there if you’re interested in reading about it. I thought the book was fabulous and I was very challenged [ READ MORE ]

Book Review: Affluenza: The All-Consuming Epidemic

It took me over a month, but I finally finished reading Affluenza. It is such an information rich book that at times I could only a read a few pages before I had to put it down and think or journal about what I had just read.  According to the back cover, affluenza is “a [ READ MORE ]

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