The Green Parent

    by Deanna Duke author, The Non-Toxic Avenger: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt You   Choosing to eliminate toxins from your environment poses a lot of issues, not just with figuring out what the heck they are to begin with and what to replace them with, but also how to convince the rest [...]

Full disclosure: Ford has paid for my airfare and hotel (and they’re feeding me pretty darn well too,) to attend the North American International Auto Show.  But the trip came with no strings attached.  I didn’t have to write about any of the Ford models.  I didn’t have to write about anything at all.  I [...]

by Ashley Grimaldo Regardless of your nostalgic, Christmas-morning-frenzy memories, you’ll quickly learn that a no-holds-barred approach doesn’t go over well with your toddler — especially on the most anticipated morning of the year. Don’t wing it Christmas morning. Get a game plan together now so that your entire family can enjoy the holidays without going [...]

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 [...]

Adding a greenhouse to your garden offers you with all the freedom of developing various plants all year round too the chance to grow your very own fruit and vegetables. If you have not nevertheless added a greenhouse to your garden, you then will require to begin thinking about exactly where the very best area [...]

Why would a lovely Beijing girl ever want to become an beijing escort? Some ladies seem to actually take pleasure in escort work whilst other individuals plainly tend not to but like any job escorts are in it for the pay examine. And also the funds you are able to earn like a Beijing escort [...]

Here’s the good news: I went to New York City this weekend with two other mom friends for a little R&R and city fun.  It was great to get a break and visit such a cool city.  It’s been 15 years and 2 kids since I’ve been to the Big Apple so it was fun [...]

This morning’s meter reading (89204 KWH) shows that we used 43 KWH of energy yesterday, which is not too shabby but not too great . If we keep up that rate, we’ll use 1333 KWH for the month of March, which is more than we used in March, 2009; but less than we used in [...]

My meter reading this morning: 89161 Can you guess what this month’s eco-challenge is?  That’s right, I’m cranking down the energy use in my home.  I’ve done this before.  But this month, I’m going to do it smarter.   Like most green bloggers, I’ve written tons of articles of the years on saving energy.  Heck, [...]

My challenge this month was plastic: to buy less of it, throw away less of it, and learn more about the alternatives to it that could keep things running smoothly in my family without it.   Well, I’m here to tell you folks that I failed.  Excuses?  I got a ton of ‘em.  First there [...]

OK, I’m over halfway through the month and if there’s one thing I’ve learned so far about plastics it is that they are really hard to avoid.  It’s not impossible by any means, by it does take quite a bit more work to find things that are plastic free.  Even things that I never would [...]

I’m continuing my search this week for plastic-free alternatives for all of the things my family needs, and seeking out the advice of experts who can help me along the way.  Today, I’d like to share this guest post from Tracy Lydiatt (aka The Green Families Guru and author of Your Green Family Blueprint) on [...]

So, no sooner did I embark on my plastic-free challenge for February, then I up and disappeared from the web.  Did you think I had been swallowed up in some sort of plastic-free vortex?  It certainly felt like it on this end!  Want to know what happened…the flu.  Enough said. It tore through every member [...]

February 1.  I just finished up my January eco-challenge (The Compact) and I’m ready for the next event.  Can you guess what is is?  That’s right – I’m going plastic-free.  And I’m not doing it alone. The Staff of Rodale.com, publisher of some of my favorite magazines such as Prevention, Organic Gardening, Women’s Health, and [...]