green product reviews

The problem with owning a good water bottle…

Is that you don’t always notice the best new (and super cool) reusable water bottles as they arrive on the scene. Take, for instance, the Klean Kanteen Reflect Stainless Steel Water Bottle with Bamboo Cap. BEAUTIFUL! This is for sure my new wish list bottle. The Reflect bottle actually came out last November. I’ve been [...]

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Green New Year’s Goal – No More Bottled Water

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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Help Your Child Explore His World

I very rarely buy books that aren’t specifically eco-friendly. But a few months ago I became a wee bit mesmerized with a book I saw at Powell’s and bought it – How to Be an Explorer of the World: Portable Life Museum by Keri Smith. Since this is not a green book in particular, I’m [...]

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Green Product Review: CLIF CRUNCH

Review Summary: I don’t know that I’ve ever actually used the term, “Melts in your mouth” to describe food, unless literally talking about an MnM, but the other day I had no other choice. I used the term to describe the new CLIF CRUNCH bars from CLIF Bar & Company. Beware that while this new [...]

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Green Toy Review: The Shuttle Imagination Cardboard Rocket by KidsCraft

Review summary: This fun cardboard playhouse is semi-easy to build, even without instructions, is bigger than you’d expect and appears to be well made and long lasting for a cardboard toy. Also, we’re near the end of our KidsCraft Playhouse giveaway here at Growing a Green Family so enter today. Product: The Shuttle Imagination made [...]

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Ditch plastic disposable water bottles and save $6,000

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? I’m hoping yes, but $50,000 does seem a little high. In any case the first green money saver we’ll look at is bottle water vs. water in reusable water [...]

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Green Toy Review: Tegu Magnetic Wooden Blocks

Review summary: When Tegu blocks first hit the toy market (back in 2009) the small company received a warm welcome from parents looking for eco-friendly toys (good) but couldn’t keep up with demand (not so good). They closed up shop to regroup and the wait list for their blocks grew to 2000+. Now Tegu is [...]

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Ten cool BPA-free reusable water bottles for kids + bonus art bottle

Read other popular Growing a Green Family posts! Subscribe to Growing a Green Family to see even more green family tips. We just looked at ten fab BPA-free reusable water bottles for adults but kids have different needs. Reusable water bottles for kids need to be absolutely chemical and BPA-free, easy to hold, unbreakable, light-weight, [...]

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Ten BPA-free reusable water bottles for adults

Summer is smack upon us and now, more then ever it’s a great time to just say NO to toss-away plastic bottled water. With this in mind here are ten awesome BPA-free reusable water bottles perfect for summer and all year round. Oh, and soon I’ll post ten more just for the kiddos so stay [...]

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Green Product Review: uscanteen Stainless Steel Canteen & Como Carrier

Review summary: Total water bottle bling made for folks who want to be eco-savvy and stylish. Last year I got a uscanteen to try out and it offered style for sure (but a price tag to match), good usability and a few cons. Read on to see what I thought. Product: Each uscanteen is comprised [...]