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Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Green New Year’s Goal – No More Bottled Water

January 4, 2011

Today we’re going to look a little closer at one of this year’s green challenges for eco-families – stop buying bottled water. WHY TAKE ON THIS GOAL? There are dozens of great reasons why you should quit buying bottled water. However, since we’ve already gone over that at Growing a Green Family, I won’t bore [...]

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Green New Year’s Goal – Quit Using Paper Towels & Paper Napkins

December 31, 2010

So far we’ve looked at 5 insanely easy New Year’s goals for families who are newer to green living. Plus we started looking at some harder green challenges for more experienced eco-families. Next on our list is the goal of zero paper towels and paper napkins. WHY TAKE ON THIS GOAL? Paper products use up [...]

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Green New Year’s Goal: Always Use Reusable Bags

December 31, 2010

Previously I listed 5 insanely easy New Year’s goals for families who are newer to green living. However, some of you are likely ready for some harder challenges during the upcoming year, so I also posted some green goals for more experienced eco-families. Always using reusable bags are one such challenge. WHY TAKE ON THIS [...]

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Can You Have a $250 Eco-Friendly Christmas?

December 14, 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? With this in mind, I decided to see how much you can save by celebrating a less consumer Christmas. Can you really spend just $250 on Christmas? That’s a [...]

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Your kids don’t have to know about paper towels either

November 19, 2010

Seventh Generation often sends me stuff to review. Today we got a box from them and Cedar decided to open it while I drove him to school. He worked at it, finally got the box open, pulled out something and said, “Well THIS is funny looking toilet paper!” I was driving so I had no [...]

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Lead found in reusable shopping bags

November 17, 2010

This week, reports of lead in reusable bags broke, possibly leaving many to wonder why they even try to live green. Seriously, we’ve got bunk organics, greenwashing and of course dangerous reusable bags that harbor death. Now lead. Sigh. Be aware that this lead issue is confined to cheap reusable bags – the very same [...]

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Does it help when stores ban plastic bags?

September 18, 2010

So, here in Portland, local Fred Meyer stores (I believe a total of ten) banned plastic toss-away bags as of August 1st. This happened, according to a Kroger/Fred Meyer news release (pdf), because of a new mess of laws that may go into affect here in Portland, Oregon that will ban bags in some places [...]

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It’s Recycle Glass Week!

September 15, 2010

Wondering who these adorable guys are? Hustle over to Inhabitots to learn more about a cool new website designed for Recycle Glass Week. Bonus, you’ll score tips that will help you teach your little one how to easily recycle glass. Read the post – HOW TO: Teach Young Children to Recycle Glass.

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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: [...]