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Blog Action Day 2011: best food posts of the day

October 16, 2011

It’s Blog Action Day 2011. Blog Action Day is the one day a year when all bloggers join together to discuss one important issue. I’ve been participating since 2007, and it’s not only fun, but informative to read what all these different types of bloggers have to say about a single issue. Last year’s topic [...]

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Go organic without going insane – tips to make the organic transition easier

October 16, 2011

Today is Blog Action Day 2011. This year’s topic is food, which is a little redundant here at Growing a Green Family, since we discuss food all the time. With that in mind, I thought we’d take a peek back at my favorite food issues – organic food. When I decided to go organic, I almost went nuts [...]

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Easy Homemade Organic Liquid Hand Soap

December 7, 2010

Hopefully, you’re already greening your hand washing routine with reusable soap dispensers and other tactics. However, another way to keep it green and clean is to reuse all those weird soap slivers you end up with. Homemade hand soap made with left-over soap slivers: Collect old soap slivers. You’ll need a bunch. If you just [...]

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Green Glossary: Organic

May 17, 2010

In the most basic of definitions, organic means; “Relating to, or derived from living organisms.” Now of course the term organic has also come to mean the use of fertilizers or pesticides that are strictly of animal or vegetable origin. Even further related to food, the term organic stands for meat or poultry raised without [...]

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What does being a green parent mean to you?

April 1, 2010

The other day someone commented at a green forum I frequent about how ALL eco-friendly people are tree hugging hippies who focus on driving a Prius or solar panels – i.e. BIG actions. Then later in the day someone asked me if I thought I was an environmentalist; because in their opinion when they think [...]

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Are Scary Germs Creating Anti-Tree Huggers?

January 28, 2010

I’m what you might call fairly germ obsessive, but probably not in the way you think. My aunt probably is a little germ obsessive in the way you might think – she ALWAYS uses those paper toilet seat covers, never drinks off other people’s drinks, and loves her anti-bacterial hand wash and bleach cleaners. Actually [...]

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Wash your hands clean and green

December 27, 2009

Washing your hands seems simple enough – rinse, lather, hum happy birthday as you scrub, then rinse. Easy! However, there’s a green way and the not so green way to wash your hands. Below are some common barriers to greener hand washing – this by the way is a perfect first green step for little [...]

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