Disney World tips on our green living blog? “That’s not green!” you might say. Well, sure, it would be greener to go camping (which we do every year) or go on an eco-vacation to an educational eco-resort like some of our friends. However, sometimes you just want a traditional vacation with nice hotels, exciting […]
Tips for traveling to Disney World with Young Children
Posted on April 22, 2013 Written by 1 Comment
How Green is a Disney Vacation?
Posted on July 5, 2012 Written by 5 Comments
As someone trying to live a green life, you probably don’t want to give up your values completely when you go on vacation.”Eco-travel” is a growing niche market. For example, the Sierra Club has eco-travel options and our friends went to an eco-tourist location in Nicaragua where they used composting toilets and fans instead of […]
Is Your Gear Ready? Prepping for Camping
Posted on May 20, 2012 Written by 3 Comments
We love to go camping! If you’re a regular reader of our blog you’ve probably picked up on this already, given the number of posts we’ve done about camping. How often we camp depends on a number of things, but we have an annual camping trip with friends that we look forward to all year, […]
The Greening of Rest Stations!
Posted on April 8, 2012 Written by 2 Comments
We live about 200 miles from our nearest family, so a typical holiday for us involves driving that far each way. Before children, we would occasionally drive straight through, but really, I can’t go more than about 2 hours without stopping at a rest station. Now that we have three, we have gotten to know […]
Greening Your Camping – Getting Started
Posted on May 30, 2011 Written by 5 Comments
Camping is a low impact and low cost way to vacation either by yourself or with your friends and family. We find that it is a good way to spend several days of quality time with friends that is not horribly expensive. There are a lot of green websites that talk about how to go […]
Greening your Camping – Reusable Utensils
Posted on March 22, 2011 Written by 4 Comments
Camping is one of those times when you commune with nature, so why would you be less environmentally conscious when camping than at home? Unfortunately, a number of people use disposable plasticware while camping and then throw it away or worse, burn it in the fire. People argue about the health implications of using plastic […]
No Spill Reusable Coffee Mugs
Posted on February 25, 2011 Written by 2 Comments
We drink coffee every day, but we don’t regularly buy it at coffee shops. To be honest, we avoid the coffee shops more because we can’t stand to spend $3 on a cup of coffee than because the environmental impact of all those single use coffee cups. I especially hate those styrofoam cups that our […]
Garden-Sitters a Must For Traveling
Posted on August 4, 2010 Written by Leave a Comment
Super-huge zucchini from our garden On return from our recent trip I was strongly reminded that in addition to getting pet-sitters, it’s really a good idea to arrange for garden sitters as well. If you know someone who’d really like to try their hand at gardening and is willing to weed and water as well […]
Greening your Camping – Cloth Diapers
Posted on June 4, 2010 Written by 14 Comments
We just got back from our annual Memorial Day camping trip with friends. We’ve been camping together since before any of us had kids and now some families are up to three kids. To us camping is about going out into nature and appreciating the beauty and wonder and at the same time hanging out […]
Greening Your Home Before Travel
Posted on December 23, 2009 Written by 5 Comments
As we prepared to leave for the holidays today we realized that there were several things we could do to save money and energy while we were gone. While Jon is driving, I have a spare minute to write about some of the things we did and you should consider doing as well. We […]
