Is a gym membership in your future for 2011? Or maybe you’re already a dedicated gym rat? Whether your membership is an obligatory New Year’s resolution or already a daily obsession, try these simple green practices you can incorporate into your gym workout to reduce your carbon footprint and help the planet. Use a reusable…
Green Living
Happy. Merry. Love. Peace.
As the year-end approaches and some of the craziness settles down, I wanted to take a moment to thank each and every one of you for stopping by Groovy Green Livin. I am overwhelmed and humbled by all of you that have reached out- through comments on my blog, email, Facebook, Twitter and in-person. You…
Microwave Safe: Are Toxins Leaking Into Your Food?
I love Trader Joe’s for many of the same reasons this guy is singing about in this quirky, unauthorized commercial for TJ’s. Hopefully the tune is now swimming around in your head, as it is in mine (misery loves company). But today my love for TJ’s was tossed aside and all I felt was anger….
Stay Green by Not Wasting Food
Americans waste a lot of food. Our society is a tossing society; we love single-use items and we don’t think twice about tossing food that appears to be too old to eat or leftovers that have been forgotten. According to Jonathan Bloom, author of American Wasteland, “we waste food because we take it for granted…. …
Baby Carrots and Chlorine?
We eat a lot of baby carrots at our house. They are a simple, healthy, ready-to-eat snack when we are on the run. Those little mini carrots travel with us to baseball fields, on airplanes and in our lunch boxes. Recently an email about baby carrots, that’s been circulating for a few years, was forwarded…
Talkin’ Turkey Take Two-Where’s Your Turkey Coming From?
After writing my last post about meat labels, lots of questions came flying in about where to buy that healthy, antibiotic and hormone free Thanksgiving bird. So I thought I would supplement the label info with some insight on where to find your turkey. Remember: the best organic food is what is grown or raised…
Talk the Talk at the Meat Market
With Thanksgiving just around the corner it is time to start thinking about where that big ol’ bird is going to come from. It would seem to be a simple task-pick out a turkey for dinner- but the labels on meat products make it overwhelming and confusing: natural, organic, free range, grassfed- to name a…
