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My Super Awesome Will-Not-Fail Plan to Eliminate Food Packaging

January 8, 2012

As I mentioned in a previous post, my major New Year’s goal is to limit some of the excess food packaging that comes into my house. My foolproof super hopeful plan! As noted, I’ve failed to reach my goal for four years or so. I’m pretty sure that I’ve been aiming too high, which is exactly the [...]

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My Green New Years Goal – Less Food Packaging and No Slacking This Year!

January 2, 2012

Instead of general New Year’s goals, I’m concentrating on discussing the childhood obesity epidemic. That said I do still have two general goals for myself, or I should say my household. One of my goals is to get this household more active, since we’ve been slacking, but we’ll discuss that later. First, let’s look at my big goal [...]

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7th Edition “Dirty Dozen” List Released – Apples Contain the Most Pesticides

June 13, 2011

Environmental Working Group (EWG) has just released their 7th edition Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce. There’s updated information on the total pesticide loads of 53 various fruits and vegetables. As always, EWG highlights the worst offenders with the “Dirty Dozen” and lists the “Clean 15” as well. The disclaimer: Many groups have been targeting [...]

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Some favorite things…

June 7, 2011

You know how I’m always posting about homemade popsicles? People probably think I’m a little obsessed, and I suppose that estimation wouldn’t be too far off the mark. Recently, I was thinking about why I like homemade ice pops so much, you know, beyond the eco-benefits and such, and my brain flashed back to Saturday [...]

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My Eco-Goals for the New Year

January 1, 2011

To end out December 2010 I posted 5 insanely easy green 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 – a list that I’ll finish up this week at some point. However, I didn’t post my own New Year’s [...]

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Five 2011 Eco-Challenges for More Experienced Green Families

December 30, 2010

In the last post I listed 5 insanely easy New Year’s goals for families who are newer to green living. However, I know plenty of you are not new to green living. If you’ve got some eco-experience, as a family, then you’re ready for some harder challenges during the upcoming year. Now to make these [...]

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Five Insanely Easy New Year’s Goals for Families New to Green Living

December 30, 2010

If you’re looking to go green this year, without a ton of fuss, you can! Many green goals take time, skill and willpower. However, there are also plenty of green New Year’s goals you can make that seriously take almost no effort, few funds and use up very little time. Following are some of the [...]

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Many Consumers Don’t Trust ‘Natural’ Product Label Claims

December 22, 2010

Once in a while it actually feels like all this harping on real certified labels and organic vs. not so much organics pays off. Today was one of those days. A recent survey by Mambo Sprouts Marketing found that consumers are getting ever so savvy with their shopping habits. About one in three health and [...]

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Outdoor Time Boosts Academic Performance

September 9, 2010

Just because it’s back to school time, doesn’t mean it’s back to indoor time. Sadly, that’s what many kids are exposed to. Schools rarely offer adequate outdoor time for kids. In a race to win the best test scores and prep kids for “Real life” many schools limit outdoor, nature time in exchange for more [...]

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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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