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Make Homemade Green Cleaners and Save $1,612 in Five Years

November 12, 2011

I’ve been slacking on my, “Save $50,000 in five years” series. It’s a lot of work (all those calculations!) However, it’s time we got back to it, so without further ado… Let’s look at cleaning products. Why use green cleaning products? In this post I’ll be comparing the costs green cleaning products only – both [...]

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Homemade Apple & Spice Air Freshener for Autumn

October 17, 2011

In the fall, it’s nice to have an air freshener that fits the season, and homemade spicy apple air freshener does just that. Better yet, it’s much safer than chemical air fresheners. Note: this air freshener works best if you have a wood-stove or fireplace. You can make it if you have a oven and are cooking something [...]

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Green and safe kitchen pantry homemade cleaners

October 15, 2011

You can easily buy eco-friendly cleaners that work well and that are safe for your family. However, there’s no need to spend money on said cleaners when you can just as easily, and inexpensively clean your entire house with items most people have on hand in their kitchen pantry. Baking soda & lemon: Grab some baking [...]

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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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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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Green Product Review: Shark 2-in-1 Vac-then-Steam

October 25, 2010

Review summary: The Shark 2-in-1 Vac-then-Steam is a very water-efficient way to get your floors super star clean, really fast. Although I thought the vacuum function could be a bit better. Read other popular Growing a Green Family posts! Read more green product reviews Subscribe to Growing a Green Family to get even more green [...]

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Reader Question: Should You Toss Unused Toxic Cleaners?

September 20, 2010

Today we’ve got a reader 2-part question, collected from the Seventh Generation company review post: The first part of the question… “My mom is transitioning from nasty chemical cleaning products and detergents to relatively more eco-friendly choices, such as Seventh Generation. However, she asked me if she should use up the nasty stuff she has [...]

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Ten ways to go green in 30 seconds or less

July 4, 2010

Think you don’t have the time to get green? You do! Here are 10 easy eco-friendly steps you can try that won’t take more than 30 seconds. Recycle your old phone book: According to Waste-Free Mail There are enough phone books created each year to measure 106,700 miles when lined up end to end; enough [...]

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Real facts about toxic chemicals and your family’s health

June 25, 2010

One of my writing clients, Inhabitots has an excellent exclusive video interview posted. In said video Inhabitat and Inhabitots founder Jill Fehrenbacher talks to Dr. Alan Greene and gets the real facts about toxic chemicals and your family’s health. It’s a must see (check out the video below) or head over to the post to [...]

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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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