The Green Parent

If you’re in the mood for some 3-D sci-fi adventure this weekend…you are in luck.  Battle For Terra is a new animated film premering this Friday that packs intense battle scenes with an equally intense eco-message of living green and living in harmony with others.  Here’s the premise:   The humans have destroyed planet Earth [...]

In case you missed it, last Wednesday was Earth Day…a day to learn about, protect, and celebrate the planet. And to be very honest, I really blew it.  For better or for worse, my schedule is bordeline frantic for the entire month of April with interviews, speaking engagements, and planning preparations surrounding Earth Day. Ironically, [...]

This past weekend was out local town’s Earth Day celebration.  As part of the festivities, I built this solar oven from a pizza box and handed out yummy smores made from solar energy.  My girls (ages 6 and 3) were easily able to help with this project and after assembling the materials, we had it [...]

National Healthy Schools Day What you can do to make sure no child’s health is left behind by Janelle Sorensen   When my husband and I first toured schools to find the one we wanted to enroll our daughter in, I’m sure I was silently voted one of the strangest parents ever. Why do I [...]

watch the proposal downloadable films iron man online Ah coffee. You either love it or you hate it. I’m not a big coffee drinker myself (I get my morning buzz from tea or soda!) But my husband rarely goes an hour with a cup o’ brew in his hands. So I’m always buying coffee, and [...]

  Today is the 39th Celebratation of Earth Day and you are personally invited to join in the party!  Here are all the details you need to get involved.   Who: We’re celebrating the Earth today thanks to  U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson who founded the event in 1970.  Festivities are open to EVERYONE! What: buy the company [...]

Are you looking for a great way to celebrate Earth Day with your children?  The best way to teach your kids about going green is to help them fall in love with nature.  So get outside, get dirty, and show your kids why this planet is worth protecting.  Here are 7 cool activities to help [...]

Samantha Harnack is a wife, green mother of two, professional photographer and environmentalist. She is also a life-long resident of the great state of Illinois.   According to Samantha, she has always been aware of the need to recycle but it wasn’t until her kids came home from pre-kindergarten with badges stating that they were [...]

 Looking for some eco-fun ways to celebrate Earth Day with the family?  Check out Disneynature’s first film, Earth, which premieres in theaters nationwide on Earth Day, April 22nd.    Narrated by the seriously smooth voice of James Earl Jones, Earth tells the remarkable story of three animal families and their amazing journey across our equally [...]

Oddly enough, did you know that this week is actually National Egg Salad week?  And it’s no wonder.  Now that Easter and Passover are behind us, most of us are looking in the fridge to find an overabundance of hard-boiled eggs.  Should you eat them or toss them?   movie burlesque on dvd According to [...]

Ah, there’s nothing like a breath of fresh air, right? Well, it all depends on what’s in that air! Air pollution is a common problem in our modern society. And it affects us all…young and old, rich and poor, Red and Blue.   Outdoors, air pollution is caused by both natural sources (like volcano eruptions, [...]

Feeling the financial pinch of the recession? You’re not the only one. And for many folks, that means a lot of their green choices are falling by the wayside as they seek out money saving options. Over the past few years, the explosion in the green marketplace meant that there were a lot of ways [...]

I can remember it clearly.  It was very early on in my first pregnancy.  I was hardly showing and still felt like a bit of an imposter in the baby store.  Still, I ventured in to try to get a glimpse of this new world I was ventruing in to.  And I was instantly shocked [...]

I’m a huge fan of the website, , an excellent online source for environmental news.  The site is always informative and often irreverant in the way they present their eco-news.  Take for instance, their latest campaign, entitled  ”"  This tongue-in-cheek campaign aims to keep folks from focusing too much on any one particular day (like Earth Day [...]

Welcome to another edition of  Waste-Free Wednesday!  Last week, I wrote a post on recycling electronics and for today’s waste-free Wednesday I’d like to take a look at the recycling of one e-gadget in particular…the cell phone.   Apparently, it’s National Cell Phone Recycling Week (who knew?) which is a program sponsored by the Environmental Protection [...]