Happy Holidays from our family to yours. As we have approached Christmas and our pending reveal of the new look and name of our blog we have been writing less and preparing more and spending more time with our children. I hope that all of you, our readers, are spending this time with your families and […]
Uncle Johnny Explains Why You Should Switch to Paperless Billing
Posted on May 23, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
Everyone gets and pays bills. Most of us receive and pay a LOT of bills. We’ve never addressed switching to paperless billing because frankly, it has always frightened Alicia. We don’t trust all those companies. Today, Alicia’s brother, better known as “Uncle Johnny” in our family, shares with us why we should switch to paperless […]
Review: Catalog Spree – No Need For Paper Catalogs!
Posted on April 18, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
In Partnership with the Arbor Day Foundation, Catalog Spree Will Plant One Tree per Download during Earth Month Alicia looking at Catalog Spree on the iPad Catalog Spree will plant one tree for every download of the app during the month of April – up to 25,000 trees – to help the Arbor Day Foundation […]
Green Features of E-readers (Giveaway Over)
Posted on April 9, 2012 Written by 9 Comments
Kindle Fire e-reader also plays games We’ll get to the Kindle Fire Giveaway Details shortly, but I want to take a minute or two to talk about the green features of e-readers. Over a thousand beautifully-illustrated children’s books available We do not have an e-reader, like the Kindle Fire, ourselves, but have been considering getting […]
Raising Healthy Kids: Avoid BPA
Posted on March 16, 2012 Written by 8 Comments
Classic Glass Baby Bottle – BPA Free Update: The FDA is planning to decide whether or not to continue allowing food packaging that leaches BPA by March 31, 2012. There is no time to lose – the FDA has to hear from you before it makes its call. The government needs to know that Americans […]
Why Buy Recycled?
Posted on August 18, 2011 Written by Leave a Comment
As you’re doing your back to school shopping, look for the whether the products you are buying are made from recycled materials. Depending on who made the product and where you’re shopping, this might be a little tag on the back, big letters on the front or a symbol next to the item on a […]
Quick Tip: Teaching Your Toddler To Recycle
Posted on February 15, 2011 Written by Leave a Comment
When we first started the blog I said that I would talk about how to include your children going green. I realized that I haven’t been doing as much of that as I would like. Our Toddler Recycling One thing I like to do is teach my toddler to recycle. Ever since he could walk, […]
Calming the Wrapping Paper Madness
Posted on December 22, 2010 Written by 3 Comments
This morning I read a blog post on Practically Green about how to avoid mountains of holiday trash. It’s a good article. You should read it and take the quiz on Practically Green. Love the site. Then reflect on how you can best apply their advice to your holidays. I started thinking about the mountains […]
Tip: Paper recycling
Posted on October 26, 2009 Written by Leave a Comment
When I forget my cloth bags at the supermarket, I always ask for paper. Then I have a collection of paper bags to use for recycling. Our city requires that all paper recycling be in paper bags. I try to place a paper bag conveniently to locations where I will generate recycling. For example, I […]
