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…
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Clean Water and Air Solutions-Healthy Child Healthy World Blog Carnival
This month I had the privilege of contributing to the Healthy Child Healthy World Blog Carnival. The topic was Every Sip – and Breath – You Take, covering clean water and air solutions. So many interesting topics were included- stories about planting foliage around your house, going polyurethane free, exposing water risks, cleaning up indoor…
AAA is Anything but Green
AAA has been around forevah…..since 1902. When it comes to roadside assistance AAA is where most of us turn. I was an AAA member for many years. The renewal envelope would come in the mail year after year and I wouldn’t even think twice about signing up. AAA came to my rescue on more than…
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…
How to Green Your Grilling
There is nothing like grilling during the summer months; burgers, fish, and chicken are all favorites on the grill. As delicious as grilling is, research has shown that cancer-causing compounds, heterocyclic amines, are formed when protein foods (meats, poultry, fish) are cooked at high heat. Here are a few things to do to keep our…
