Category: Green Living

Cloth Diapers:The Scoop

I know I have written about cloth diapers before.  I used them and loved them.  I am happy to say though that my diaper days are over and I am also very glad to be done with that phase in parenting.  However, recently I did come across a wonderful article for anyone who may be […]

Our Children and the Environment

Let’s face it. It’s up to us to educate our children to the importance of taking care of our environment. They are the ones who will be living in it much longer than we will. I read a great article on cnn.com today on getting our children involved.
It’s titled, “10 ways to […]

Call 2 Recycle

The Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corporation (RBRC) has a national program called “Call 2 Recycle”. This program helps recycle your used portable rechargeable batteries and old cell phones. These batteries are commonly found in cordless power tools, cellular and cordless phones, laptop computers, camcorders, digital cameras and remote control toys. RBRC recycles a […]

Dividetheride.com

Developed by a father of two who noticed so many cars sitting in the parking lots of soccer fields each week, Dividetheride.com is a green solution to driving. Carpooling has been around forever and we all know it’s a great way to take cars off the road. This service takes it step further […]

My First Blog Post

Here’s my first post ever to a blog. I wrote a guest post for groovygreen.com about line drying clothes. Now I’m writing for my own blog.

Help the Earth:Use Canvas Bags

Paper or Plastic? How about Canvas? Switching to canvas shopping bags is a simple thing that can make a big difference. Because of their effects on the environment, plastic shopping bags need to go away. Here’s the scoop on how they’re effecting things.
According to Worldwatch Institute, factories around the world manufactured […]

gDiapers

As more and more people are becoming concerned about our environment, lots of us are switching to alternatives to disposable diapers. Here’s my experience with using cloth diapers.
If you like the idea of an eco-friendly diaper, but aren’t up for everything involved with totally switching to cloth, you may want to look into gDiapers.
gDiapers […]

Living Simple

There’s a lot talk lately about saving our resources and creating a world that our children will be able to grow old in. All this talk is a good thing because it’s making our society more aware of the way our world is heading, and it’s getting people motivated about making some changes in […]

Recycle Your Christmas Tree

This year we chose to buy a live Christmas tree that was potted. We live in Arizona and thought it would be fun to have a palm tree for our Christmas tree. This weekend we plan to take it out in the back yard and plant it! Buying a potted tree is […]

Alternatives to Traditional Gift Wrap

Americans produce about 1 million extra tons of waste a week between Thanksgiving and Christmas. Gift wrap contributes to a lot of this waste. Here are some creative ways to wrap gifts without filling the garbage can.

Gift Bags: Although gift bags eventually have to be thrown away they can be used over and […]