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Green Gardening and Cow Manure

March 6, 2008 By 3 Comments

Have you heard of CowPots? I had no idea what a CowPot was but when I thought of the two words put together, I took a guess…where a cow takes a poop? Funny enough, that’s exactly it…a biodegradable, environmentally friendly way to garden with cow manure!. Farmers have cow manure and need to do something [...]

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Imagination + Box = Eco-Friendly Toy

March 5, 2008 By 2 Comments

When I think back to my childhood, I don’t have memories of toys or possessions. I remember playing outside until it was dark and making the bath water black because I was so dirty. A rock could be play money for playing store or twelve of them were a dozen eggs. A leaf suddenly became [...]

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BLEACH RECALL..another reason to go non-toxic!

February 29, 2008 By 5 Comments

Chlorine Bleach is one of the top 10 toxic and hazardous household products, sold on shelves today. Some common names for chlorine bleach: chloramine, sodium hypochlorite, bleach, hydrochloric acid, trihalomethanes, disinfection byproducts. This highly toxic cleaner is the number one most swallowed cleaner by children causing poising. Exposure should be avoided, yet it is sold [...]

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Lead Test Kit

February 4, 2008 By Leave a Comment

Last night we attended a super bowl party and for me it was just to socialize and get the kids out of the house. No offense but I’m not a football fan but the food and conversation is always nice. My daughter was having a blast playing with this Elmo guitar. She loved it because [...]

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Let It All Hang Out

January 18, 2008 By Leave a Comment

I stumbled upon this site, Project Laundry List, a few months back while getting ready to do a presentation for Zonta on how to be a Shade of Green this New Year. I have fond memories hanging clothes out to dry and playing hide and go seek behind the sheets and towels. As I got [...]

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Reduce Junk Mail-Save a Tree

October 20, 2007 By 2 Comments

I can’t stand getting junk mail. I go to the mailbox and there’s a pile of magazines, catalog’s, presorted mail envelopes and postcards trying to get me to be an envelope stuffer. It’s annoying and fills up my recycle bin very quickly. Why do I get this stuff? Simple, my name and address is sold [...]

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A Going Green Story

September 28, 2007 By Leave a Comment

I was folding laundry watching Oprah and I heard that there’s all of these toxic chemicals in cleaning products. I knew they stunk and that they gave me a headache. I always wondered. Except the commercials tell me to kill 99.9% of all germs and be a good mom. I want to be a good [...]

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