The Green Parent

Veteran’s Day, the day America honors the men and woman who serve in the military, is tomorrow.  This holiday is not about your position on war or peace or military spending.  It’s about the women and men who voluntarily serve our country to make it a better place.  So The Green Parent is proud to [...]

A little over a year ago, I was doing some research for The Green Parent and looking for great green ways for families to celebrate the holidays.  That’s when I ran across information about Corey Colwell-Lipson and her organization, Green Halloween.  The premise behind Green Halloween is not just to make Oct 31st a more [...]

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A green parent of two young boys, Melissa Goldberg is a committed environmentalist who has decided to change her life and her community by changing the way her family lives. Melissa’s biggest passions are family, food and fitness. She has [...]

Shel Horowitz, Green Parent, ethical marketing expert and author of the ebook The Penny-Pinching Hedonist: How to Live Like Royalty with a Peasant’s Pocketbook, stands up to big corporations everyday, demanding social justice and meaningful environmental change. How does he do this? By attending corporate shareholder meetings? By protesting in the streets? By petitions or [...]

High cost of living got you down? Economic woes have left more and more Americans searching for ways to save a buck. With her new blog, Vegetarian on the Cheap, Moni (mom, artist, and vegetarian for 18 years) shows families how to stretch their dollars by skipping meat and making more vegetarian meals. Whether you’re [...]

Meet Kristy Glass. She’s a busy mom living in New York City who was so inspired by the movement behind Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth (even though she has admittedly never seen the film!) that she decided to start “gradually going green.” I think her approach is similar to that of most of us [...]

Far from being raised with a silver spoon in her mouth, Laura Seydel, (daughter of CNN founder Ted Turner), was raised with dirt under her fingernails and deeply-rooted love for the environment. Today, this mom of three balances green parenting with ball games, PTA meetings, and her work for the Captain Planet Foundation, a [...]