From the category archives:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Look Out! Reusable Bags Harbor Deadly Illnesses!

July 19, 2010

Every once in a while, (okay often) the American Chemistry Council tries to convince consumers that reusable bags are indeed the devil in disguise. Just to clear things up, the American Chemistry Council (ACC) represents most of the major companies engaged in the business of chemistry, such as the Plastics Division, the Chlorine Chemistry Division, [...]

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Bottled Water Causes Blindness in Puppies!

June 28, 2010

Oh. My. Tappening has got to be the best flipping anti-bottled water campaign ever created. Tappening was covered at the New York Times last year but I just learned about them today at elephant. Tappening targets bottled water companies with a simple tactic – they lie about them. One of their posters claims “Bottled Water: [...]

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How to afford green living – start by living green

June 25, 2010

Lately I’ve been talking about living green on a budget. If you need to catch up read the following first then head back here for more tips. Is Green Living Worth the Cost? Why green living is worth the cost False: It’s impossible to afford green living I’ve mentioned that even on a limited budget [...]

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Make recycling easier for your kids & reluctant adults

June 21, 2010

Recycling should be a family affair but often recycling can seem very complicated to little kids. Take it from me; at age five Cedar “recycled” some of our silicone homemade popsicle molds claiming, “They looked recyclable!“ Reluctant adults in your home may actually not get recycling or they may be using their lack of know-how [...]

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Ten incredibly lame disposable products to help trash your footprint

June 14, 2010

There are all sorts of super lame products on the market, some more footprint trashing than others. With this in mind it’s very easy to live a trash heavy life – if you so choose. Following are ten of the best products to buy if your goal happens to be anti-eco. 1. Of course the [...]

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Ditch paper towels and save $1,000 in five years

June 13, 2010

Currently I’m running an experiment here at Growing a Green Family. Can the average family of four save $50,000 in five years simply by living green? So far we found that you can save $6,000+ if you switch from bottled water to tap and filtered tap water in reusable bottles and we also found that [...]

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Arguments for paper towel use – benefits of paper towels over cloth

June 12, 2010

Right now I’m on a bit of a paper towel kick. Paper towels are one of my pet eco-topics and once I get going look out. Hopefully I’ll be off this kick in a week or so and back to a more general eco-friendly post schedule. In general I think cloth towels can be used [...]

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Wait paper towels really come from trees?

June 8, 2010

Technically my title is misleading because paper towels come from forests not individual trees, but more on that below. First of all, to recap, I don’t use paper towels. I haven’t bought any in four or so years and while many advocates of paper towels note that non-paper towel users have a self-righteous attitude I [...]

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Why use cloth napkins?

June 4, 2010

As I recently, and sadly found out, if you’re already using bulk paper napkins you won’t save much money by switching to cloth napkins. So you may think why switch to cloth anyway? Need a few more reasons… Cloth napkins work better and feel better. They also look nicer. Cloth napkins are a perfectly easy [...]

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