Thinking of renovating your home anytime in the near future? Check out Healthy Child Healthy World September Blog Carnival focusing on healthy home improvements. Healthy Child Healthy World is leading a movement that educates parents, supports protective policies, and engages communities to make responsible decisions, simple everyday choices, and well-informed lifestyle improvements to create healthy…
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Try a Green Surge Protector and Save Some Green
Technorati claim code 6JGJJPAB5JV6 Have you heard of vampire power? Don’t get too excited-I’m not talking the Twilight Series. Vampire power is the energy sucked out by plugged-in appliances that are on standby mode or turned off. Many small appliances made today continue to draw power, even when they are switched off. Nearly 20 percent…
Greening Your Apple Picking
After a picture perfect summer in the Northeast, fall is most definitely in the air. Although it is not “officially” here, the days are getting shorter, the nights are cooling off, the air is crisp and apple picking season has officially begun. For many of us, heading out to the apple orchard is an annual…
My Reasons for Racing-Discovering the True Meaning of Being Green
This weekend I am participating in my second triathlon. Racing is fairly new to me-I have been running, biking and practicing yoga for many years, but racing has added a new dimension to my workouts. It has taught me to challenge myself and push beyond where I thought I could go. Sort of like life….
No VOC and Low VOC Paint-A Simple and Healthy Way to Improve Your Home
This is part of the Healthy Child Blog Carnival, Safe House, focusing on healthy home improvements – an effort by Healthy Child Healthy World to help inspire a movement to protect children from harmful chemicals. As summer transitions to fall I am hit with the cleaning, reorganizing and redecorating bug. My living space is not…
One Click Away From Removing Unwanted Junk Mail from Your Mailbox
Do you come home everyday to find stacks of junk mail and unwanted catalogs in your mailbox? In our house the junk mail ends up in the recycle bin before coming through the door. What a waste of marketing dollars! Catalog Choice is a free service which allows you to control the catalogs you receive…
My Quest for a Green Car
I am not feeling so groovy or green right now. I was in a little, itty, bitty car accident a few weeks ago. Everyone was fine, but my minivan took a beating. Today my van went into the shop for an overhaul-compliments of the sweet- 17 year old-newbie-driver’s insurance company. Needing a temporary replacement- I…
