The green household products we use in our home

Find out the green household products we use in our home.

Greening my music – it’s about time!

Find out how you can help save the planet by buying MP3s instead of CDs.

Cooking with Gas vs. Pressure – which uses more energy?

How much energy does it take to cook 1 cup of white rice with an Instant Pot multi-cooker vs gas cooktop?

How efficient is your cooking?

Find out why an electric multi-cooker/instant pot is the most efficient method of cooking.

Listening to Vernal Pools

Can you identify the sounds around this vernal pool?

Dogs and Doughboys

This year on our annual camping trip I was sitting with my young friend by the fire making doughboys and discussing why some people like dogs and some don’t.  She’s a huge fan of dogs and told me she likes them so much because they are soft and cuddly and always like to play. I […]

Love Song to the Earth

Natasha Bedingfield and Sean Paul teamed up with an awesome group of artists including Paul McCartney, Jon Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow and many more to create “Love Song to the Earth.” They released it to coincide with Pope Francis’s visit to Washington D.C., Philadelphia and New York.  I found the song a uplifting and a beautiful way to […]

How to Easily Grill Corn on the Campfire

This year Ellie & Christor were old enough to actually help us plan for our annual camping trip, including participating in meal planning. They declared that they were going to make pancakes, and since I know that Ellie is perfectly capable of making pancakes at home by herself, that sounded great to me.  She also put in […]

Movie Review of Rob Stewart’s Revolution

I was asked to review the feature length documentary Revolution by Rob Stewart. The movie takes you on a journey under the water and around the world to see the impacts of climate change and the damage that we are doing to our planet. The videography and imagery underwater is breath taking.  The movie gets […]

Green Household Products Delivered – ePantry now Grove Collaborative

Updated: ePantry is now Grove Collaborative Here are the reasons we love Grove Collaborative: ✦ 100% carbon neutral shipments ✦ Sustainable materials ✦ Reduce plastic waste ✦ Cruelty-free products ✦ Ingredient transparency We get our regular Grove shipments with laundry detergent, recycled toilet paper without plastic packaging, tissues and dish soap.  We have switched to some of […]