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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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Recycled Autumn Holiday Cards, Invitations & More

September 20, 2010

I suggest making holiday cards with recycled paper and other goods you have around the house. Or send an e-card. Both of these options are low on the footprint scale. I’ll post some good options for these top plans later. That said, I know not everyone will make homemade cards, so your second best option [...]

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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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Arguments for paper towel use – benefits of paper towels over cloth

June 12, 2010

Right now I’m on a bit of a paper towel kick. Paper towels are one of my pet eco-topics and once I get going look out. Hopefully I’ll be off this kick in a week or so and back to a more general eco-friendly post schedule. In general I think cloth towels can be used [...]

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Wait paper towels really come from trees?

June 8, 2010

Technically my title is misleading because paper towels come from forests not individual trees, but more on that below. First of all, to recap, I don’t use paper towels. I haven’t bought any in four or so years and while many advocates of paper towels note that non-paper towel users have a self-righteous attitude I [...]

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Why use cloth napkins?

June 4, 2010

As I recently, and sadly found out, if you’re already using bulk paper napkins you won’t save much money by switching to cloth napkins. So you may think why switch to cloth anyway? Need a few more reasons… Cloth napkins work better and feel better. They also look nicer. Cloth napkins are a perfectly easy [...]

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Ditch paper napkins and save almost nothing… huh?

June 4, 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. Next up let’s see how [...]

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Alice In Wonderland Homemade Paper Dolls!

March 31, 2010

Got recycled paper? Got kiddos obsessed with the new Alice In Wonderland? Then you’re in luck because artist Timothy Haugen of the always amazing Fantastic Toys has created a paper kit set just for you – the Alice in Wonderland Mad Tea Party Playset Printable Paper Craft PDF. Haugen’s vintage inspired paper playset is based on [...]

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Green Company Review: Seventh Generation

March 10, 2010

A while back, Seventh Generation sent me some green-cleaning products to review. I’ve already reviewed their toilet bowl cleaner and I’ll be posting more reviews soon, but thought that it’d be easier to first take a look at the company as a whole; check out some of their eco-pros and cons. BASICS: Seventh Generation has [...]

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