REUSE! REUSE! REUSE!

Okay, so I am a bit excited about reusing! It doesn’t take much to get me excited when it comes to being green! So, I had many great glass peanut butter jars that I cleaned and put in my cupboard over the last several months. I didn’t want to recycle them because I knew I […]

Organic, Fair Trade, Superb Customer Service

I just can’t let my recent interaction with a company go unwritten about! That company is Equal Exchange and if you don’t already drink their coffee, you should.  I drink lots and lots of it and mostly because they offer fair trade and organic coffee, but also many other products as well, such as cocoa and […]

How are your sinuses? Neti pot might help!

Okay, let me just cut to the chase and tell you that my most favorite health aid is my neti pot. You might be asking “neti who?” Well, this is just about the greatest little piece of ceramics you may ever own. Basically, a neti pot is a nasal cleansing tool. It has been used […]

Hand Sanitizers – Beware!

I was so bothered by this recent find, that I had to share it with everyone. I am talking about those hand sanitizers that come in the pump or bottle and are probably on the walls of many buildings we walk into, including my son’s school! First, and foremost, they are by no means a […]

Time for house plants!

Now that we have to close up the windows and keep them closed it is a great time to consider buying house plants. They are a great way of keeping the air in your home clean and purified and maybe keep everyone a bit more healthy this winter! I have done some research and came […]

REDUCE, REDUCE, REDUCE!!!!!

Have you ever just looked around your house at all the “stuff” that you have?? It is amazing how much we all accumulate over time and then can’t even really remember why we even bought something in the first place! Several months ago I started a mission to simplify and reduce all the unnecessary items […]

Non-Toxic Laundry with Soap Nuts!

If you haven’t already heard of or tried soap nuts, you are going to want to find out where you can get them and wonder why you haven’t been using them your entire laundry washing life! They are amazing and grow on trees. Basically, soap nuts are the dried shells of the soapberry. The shells […]

A Green Birthday

October 15, 2008 Okay, so a couple of weeks ago my son turned 10!(Hooray for him since the double digits are a HUGE deal when you are 9). My number one goal aside from an awesome and memorable party for him was to make it as earth friendly as possible, but at the same time […]