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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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A TOXIC story that will break your heart!

February 20, 2008 By 7 Comments

This is a true and alarming story. I will not give you the name of the person (for their privacy) or tell you where this took place but it is true. I received an email today from a new friend and business partner who lost her dog. Her dogs mean the world to her, they [...]

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Be an "EcoMom" Like Me

February 16, 2008 By 19 Comments

A very recent article in the New York Times, titled, For ‘EcoMoms,’ Saving Earth Begins at Home , mentions what they call a “subculture” of moms being “green moms” and this blog is listed. What an amazing honor and a surprise. What I do each day is try to be some shade of green. I [...]

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Indoor Air Pollution

February 11, 2008 By 4 Comments

Did you know that the Environmental Protection Agency consistently ranks indoor air pollution among the top five environmental risks to pubilc health? Wow! Did you know that every single day the average adult breaths in up to 900 cubic feet of air? The EPA states that “since most people spend a majority of their lives [...]

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The Gift That Doesn’t Shed

November 15, 2007 By Leave a Comment

This holiday season I am trying very hard to give feel good gifts that give back somehow. Every year I get gifts I don’t want or I seem to give gifts that I’m not sure the other person is really using. I wanted to try this year to spend money that is going for a [...]

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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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