Baggus are not just for girly girls-men will love them too! “What is a BAGGU?” you might ask. Baggu is the “…bag of the future” according to Teen Vogue. It is an eco-friendly and stylish bag (sold in packages of 3 and 6) and it is one simple step you can take to help save…
Healthy Lifestyle
Snack Attack-How to Make Healthy Choices for Salty and Sweet Treats
American’s love of sugary and salty snacks is undeniable. The supermarkets are filled with aisle after aisle of snack food choices. According to the Snack Food Association, in a single day (Super Bowl Sunday), Americans consumed an estimated 30.4 million pounds of chips, dips, pretzels, popcorn and other treats. So many choices-snacking on the wrong…
Green Moms Carnival Back-To-School Edition
Extra! Extra! Read All About it…… Back-To-School Tips, Information and Thoughts Today is the release of the Green Moms Carnival Back-To-School edition. Green Moms Carnival is a collection of great contributions from around the green blogosphere dealing with a topic many of us are facing: our kids heading back-to-school. Send Your Kids Back to School…
Reduce the Garbage-Switch to a Sustainable Lunch Box
Through August 31, 2010 Kids Konserve is offering Groovy Green Livin readers a 15% discount on all products -just enter the code “groovy” at check out. Wow! It is hard to imagine that children’s lunches create more than 3.5 billion pounds of garbage each year, which amounts to a crazy 18,760 pounds of trash annually…
How Safe Is Your Hand Sanitizer?
Since the outbreak of H1N1 automatic hand sanitizer dispensers are everywhere. These waterless cleansers are provided as a “courtesy” at check out counters of local pharmacies and grocery stores, in public restrooms, doctor’s offices and restaurants. Most of us walk around armed with our own personal supply of hand sanitizer, ready to ward off the…
Ready, Set, Stop Your Engines
This is part of the Healthy Child Blog Carnival about Clean Water and Air Solutions – an effort by Healthy Child Healthy World to help inspire a movement to protect children from harmful chemicals. The delivery guy pulls up to my house to bring me a package. I have to admit, he is visiting my…
And the Green Grass Grows All Around-How Do You Cut It?
Not many people know this about me- I love to mow the lawn. It has become one way for me to have a little alone time; time outside with my music cranked up to drown out the sound of the mower. I use a self propelled gas mower to get the job done. As much…