The Green Parent

due date filme download Wal-Mart is about to change the way we go shopping. As the world’s largest retailer, Wal-Mart has earned quite a reputation for their rock-bottom price tags (and the questionable strategies they use to attain those prices.)  But in the future, those price tags may also be accompanied by another label…a green [...]

Born and raised in Maryland, Teresa Berger is a momapreneur and lead visionary for www.weeBgreen.com, an online boutique specializing in locally and regionally handmade and earth-friendlier products for wee ones and parents. Since becoming a mother, Teresa’s interest in the environment and living an earth-friendlier life has grown. She feels it’s important to instill a [...]

Today’s Giveaway: Universal Family Music’s 6-CD collection of tunes the whole family will love. Enter here. Got a tween who loves to shop?  Is it possible to teach them to do it green?  That’s the question The Green Parent posed to Trendy Diva, a self-professed tween diva and uber-shopper, and her mom, a self-professed greenie [...]

Let’s face it, holidays and birthdays just wouldn’t be the same without the giving and receiving of gifts. But that doesn’t mean you need to go overboard or buy gifts that go against your conscience. In fact, you may not need to buy anything at all. The best gift is one that is perfect for [...]

Stuff. Here in the U.S. we have too much of it; yet we all seem to find that we need more of it every day. The bad news is that all of this new stuff comes with a hefty price tag for the environment as it depletes resources and creates a mountain of waste. Fortunately, [...]

It goes without saying that one of the best things you can do for the planet is to avoid buying new stuff. Renting, borrowing, swapping with a friend or buying secondhand “preloved” goods reduces the consumption of new materials and lightens the load on landfills. But that policy can be difficult to follow when it [...]

Green is the new black, or so they say. And manufacturers are scrambling to meet all of this new demand by making eco-savvy products that are good for the planet. But buyer beware; not all products are as eco-friendly as you are led to believe. Many products are actually just “greenwashed,” meaning they are made [...]

Every item you purchase will impact the Earth in the resources used to create it and the energy used to get it to the store shelf. Fortunately, it’s easy to go green by making eco-friendly choices when you shop. Are you a green shopper? Take this quiz to find out. robot chicken: star wars episode [...]

With all the talk today about the evils of oil, you probably already know that the less of this stuff you use, the better off we’ll all be. If the fact that the consumption of oil is the number one contributor to global warming doesn’t get you, the rising prices at the pump certainly will. [...]

Bad news for tweens today. The Center for Environmental Health recently reported that high levels of lead were found in Hannah Montana products that are currently on sale at your favorite retailer. According to the report, the vinyl on five of the twenty eight products tested (see below) had lead contents of 1,800 parts per [...]

Getting ready for a new baby can be both overwhelming and exhilarating. There’s gear to buy, rooms to clean, and sleep to store up on! If you setting up a nursery for your baby to sleep in (when he’s not sleeping on your shoulder), consider taking a few steps to ensure that the room is [...]