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Parenting Green: Fun Green Toys that Teach Children Sustainability

With parents and adults concentrating on sustainability and going green, teaching our children is important to preserving our actions. When we want to teach them something new, it is sometimes hard to gain the attention of our children. However, the toy companies have geared toward sustainability, recycling and renewing our natural resources. This makes teaching […]

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Parenting Green: (Guest Post) Featuring “Sushi Gets Bagged”

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According to the Plastic Bag Ban Report “On January 1st, Washington, DC put into effect a new law known as “Anacostia River Clean Up and Protection Act of 2009″. This law has been known mostly as the Plastic Bag Fee law. If you make a retail purchase in the city and don’t have your own

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My Green Mommy Tip: Full Loads Only Please

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Nobody wants their washer and dryer to burn a whole in their wallet, so I am sharing one of my favorite green Mommy tip’s: only wash laundry when you have full loads. The California Energy Commission reports that “the typical American household does nearly 400 loads of laundry per year, using about 40 gallons of

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Happy Earth Day!

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Happy Earth Day! Today I am sharing with you my promise to the earth. In addition, it is important for me to make a promise to my children to take care of the earth. The world has lots of beauty surrounding it, but pain and destruction too. Everyone should take a stand and do what

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Manage Monday: Your Carbon Footprint and Ways to Reduce it

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What is a carbon footprint? In recent years these words have surfaced, your carbon footprint is simply your personal impact on the environment and climate change in relation to the total amount of greenhouse gases (carbon dioxide) your activities are causing. It is great to be considerate of the environment, but even better when you

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Have You Checked Your Cabinets Lately?

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I enjoy cleaning my house, in fact, I find cleaning therapeutic. However, when I was pregnant I noticed that a lot of my normal cleaning solutions were making me light headed and caused shortening of breath. At first, I thought I was extra sensitive because I was carrying twins, but then it dawned on me

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Tips to Save Energy in Your Home This Winter

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Last year my husband and I had an energy audit done on our home. I wanted to know if the tips that I was given really worked, and I am glad to report that they absolutely do. My girls and I are home most of the time and I thought our bills would have doubled.

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