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So what can you and your children do to reduce the waste?  Here are a few tips inspired by Greenopia. Their Greenopia city guidebooks are an easy-to-understand consumer guide filled with local listings for green retailers, service providers, and organizations. » read more

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Every year our town has a recycled art contest. And every year I plan to enter but always miss the deadline. So, in the midst of my busy life, I got my act together and made this bowl. This bowl is made out of the liners inside of coke bottle caps and hot glue. That's it! Directions are below.

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There. I said it. And those who know me will be shocked that I did. But really, enough is enough.

The whole point of the green movement is to reduce, reuse, andrecycle. But with "going green" going mainstream, the news media playing up the green movement, and the Corporate America jumping on the bandwagon, "going green" has lost its purpose. Now its, "buy new" because all that old stuff you have IS.GOING.TO.KILL.US.ALL.

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Despite the fact that I had some suspicion I was pregnant, it was still a shock when that little plus sign appeared. The excitement, joy, and overwhelming sense of responsibility incited me to learn as much as I could about protecting the growing baby within. Over the next few weeks, I'll bring you simple, attainable solutions to green your bump. If you're not preggers yet, don't tune out. » read more

Environmentalists are often called Tree-Huggers.  Sometimes it's not meant to be a compliment, but I always take it to be one.  I love trees and I'm not ashamed to hug them. In public.  I'm all about Tree Public Displays of Affection...TPDA for short.
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According to Darren Cronian over at Travel Rants the travel industry does not care about climate change.  Now I realize that airplanes leave carbon footprints, car exhaust fouls the air, and cruise ships are not always polite in minding their garbage recycling manners, yet I beg to differ with Darren. » read more

Have you ever wondered what it would be like to make it through the winter without heating? What about walking 30 miles to work? I don't know about you, but I find such questions very challenging.

Our ancestors, even a few decades back, could not imagine the technologies that would invade our lives--and ultimately change the way we live and even those primal of decision, such as how to eat or where to live. Today, we cannot live without many conveniences... » read more

Compared to most of the families on our block, we do a good job with our recycling. While most of our neighbor’s garbage cans are overflowing, ours is not. Instead, we have two to four bins of recyclables at the curb most weeks. (No we don’t drink a lot of beer. » read more