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Choose Your Green Shade of Grocery Shopping

by Jennifer on December 9, 2009

Green living happens in different shades for different people. Grocery shopping is a great example. Some grocery shopping steps are super mega green while others are mildly green. The best plan, if you’re new to green living, is to start small, taking green steps that are easy to manage. Eventually work in more and more green steps until your grocery shopping experience is as green as possible.

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Mild green grocery shopping:

  • Buy some reusable grocery bags and actually remember to take them to the store when you shop.
  • Shop close to home so that you drive less, and combine trips on the same day if you have to hit two grocery stores.
  • Plan some of the weeks meals at a time so that you limit take out.
  • Choose three must have organic item and always buy it. For example, always buy organic milk, organic apples, and organic chicken.
  • Never buy plastic water bottles.

Smarter green grocery shopping: Keep on reading this post!

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Ban Black Friday This Year

by Jennifer on November 19, 2009

For years now I’ve been participating in Buy Nothing Day. Buy Nothing Day is the alternative to Black Friday, launched by the good folks at Adbusters.

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The basics:

Buy Nothing Day is fairly self-explanatory. On the official Black Friday, the day after Thanksgiving, Buy Nothing Day encourages consumers to not shop til they drop but to buy nothing instead. Black Friday is usually the single biggest shopping day of the year. Adbusters notes, “We’re asking tens of millions of people around the world to bring the capitalist consumption machine to a grinding – if only momentary – halt.

Why Buy Nothing Day?:

  • You have better things to do with your time than shop such as spend time with your family.
  • The U.S. is considerably overwhelmed with consumerism and Buy Nothing Day is one day that attempts to highlight the fact that while over consumption is currently alive and thriving, it doesn’t need to be this way.
  • Black Friday is a holiday that’s all about encouraging people to buy more, more, more. It’s not green. It’s not budget or family friendly. It doesn’t teach any life-long lessons your kids need to learn. You don’t have to be on board.

Black Friday is not a green holiday: Keep on reading this post!

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Green Product Review: HAPPYBABY The Organic Guide to Baby’s First 24 Months

October 29, 2009

PRODUCT: HappyBaby: The Organic Guide to Baby’s First 24 Months by the founders of HAPPYBABY, Robert W. Sears, and Amy Marlow (September 2009, Harper Collins)

COST: $11.55 softcover / $16.99 ebook
BASICS: From HAPPYBABY; “HappyBaby The Organic Guide to Baby’s First 24 Months, focuses on the most crucial and confusing time for growing families: the beginning. This [...]

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My Green Family Goals

October 16, 2009

At my house we’ve got some various categories of green living goals. I’ve got some personal goals. I’ve also got some full household goals, and some goals that involve getting my boyfriend Dave and his girls up to speed on what we’re already doing well. My son Cedar and I are pretty good at some [...]

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Green Audit Know-How

October 13, 2009

Green audits are pretty darn easy to conduct. With any audit you simply investigate and assess a situation, person, organization, system, process, company or enterprise, product, or project. Whew, which sounds heavy duty, but it’s really not that tough.

The end result of a green audit is not change, but the tools to create change. For [...]

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My Green Product Rating System

October 12, 2009

I’ve reviewed a ton of green products over the years and have pretty comprehensive review criteria in place. Since I plan on posting green product reviews here I figured you’d like to have some idea about how I rate products so I’ve compiled the following info…

All the green product I review are rated on a [...]

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My Green Product Review Criteria

October 9, 2009

If you’re trying to go green it helps to have some criteria in place that you can use to make consumer decisions. There’s plenty of greenwashing out there, and if you’re not careful it’s easy to choose green products that aren’t actually a true shade of green.
Over the years I’ve developed my own green criteria [...]

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