The Green Parent

By Vanessa Van Petten, creator of RadicalParenting.com a parenting website written from the teen perspective to help parents understand them. She is also the author of the parenting book, Do I Get My Allowance Before or After I’m Grounded?   When I was 16 I thought it was my Dad’s goal in life to make [...]

Last week, I embarked on a new mission.  My local town challenged me to find as many items on my shopping list as possible right in my downtown area, rather than travel to larger towns with bigger stores and/or point-and-click my shopping online.  The result: a three-month  Buy Local Challenge, during which time I aim [...]