Happy Food Day! Food Day is an annual celebration and a worldwide event designed to increase awareness, understanding and promote action to alleviate hunger. This year we are again combining forces to celebrate Food Day as a celebration and movement toward more healthy, affordable, and sustainable food. Now that’s reason to celebrate. According to the Food Day…
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I Stand With Kids, Not Toxic Chemicals
Toxic chemicals are everywhere. As parents most of us do our best to keep our kids safe, but unfortunately it’s not always easy or within our control. Our kids are exposed to toxic chemicals on a daily basis through a variety of consumer products found in our homes. This is unacceptable. If you’ve been a…
How to Choose a Healthy Breakfast Cereal
We eat a lot of cereal in the morning. My oldest son lives for his morning cereal. It’s sort of like coffee for a 12 year old. Call it habit or routine-it gets ugly around here if we run out of cereal. As a mom who cares about what her kids eat (just like many…
Groovy Green Gig and Other Updates
Time for an update on the Groovy Green Livin front. From time to time I like to share with you what I’ve been up to- under one condition: that you do the same and share with me your latest and greatest! Podcast with Amber Strocel Two years ago at BlogHer in San Diego I…
Creative Recycled Crafts
You gotta love a local fair. This fair was held in Sudbury, Massachusetts last weekend. It was amazing to see so many recycled crafts on one table. Truth be told-I’m not very crafty. I try, but I’m much more likely to buy something from a table like this one. The recycled tab bracelets -using tabs…
Tide: Take the Cancer Out!
The The Power of We is a force to be reckoned with. Almost 80,000 of us have come together demanding that Procter & Gamble remove a cancer-causing chemical from their Tide Free & Gentle laundry detergent. Today thousands of writers from around the globe have come together for Blog Action Day to talk about one…
A Guide to Edible Seeds
Edible seeds have been making their way into my smoothies, soups and chili over the past few weeks. The assortment of edible seeds that lines my kitchen cabinets continues to grow as I learn more and more about the incredible health benefits associated with these seeds. Having a Blendtec certainly helps since I’m able to ground up…
