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green

The Power of Small Change

February 5, 2010

Fakeplasticfish has a post up about conflict between couples about green living, in which she quotes my post from last week about making green choices together.
Beth Terry, the woman behind Fake Plastic Fish, has gone to amazing lengths to cut plastic out of her life. Last year, she produced something like 4 pounds of plastic [...]

Tagged as: activism, change, community organizing, cutting plastic, green, green living, life, life matters, personal change, politics, rosa parks, social justice

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Choosing a Greener Life Together

January 27, 2010

On the heels of my Monday post at Get Rich Slowly about talking to your spouse about money, here’s a reader-requested post about how couples can communicate about green lifestyle choices.
In general, my husband and I get along fine about our green living. Our values about things like making green life choices are very closely [...]

Tagged as: family, green

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Caving in on car-free living

October 27, 2009

Only a few weeks into life without a car, I am throwing in the towel. Which towel, you ask? The sopping wet one in the back of the bike trailer that got the seats almost dry, but not so dry that my ass wasn’t soaked by the time we got to music class on Saturday. [...]

Tagged as: car, family, green

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Car-free family, for the moment

October 8, 2009

Our mechanic called today to read our van its last rites. I’m not really in any kind of financial position this week to buy a new car, or even a new-to-me car. I’m just getting out of debt, and starting to put aside an emergency fund. It has an impressive $500 in it. I am [...]

Tagged as: bike, green, money

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MomsRising releases searchable database of safe products

September 20, 2009

MomsRising has released a searchable database of products you can check out to learn what contaminants or toxic chemicals are in your stuff – and your kids’ stuff. From carseats to designer handbags, they’ve got you covered. And they made this nifty widget to make it Super Easy to scare yourself with the knowledge.
if [...]

Tagged as: green, kids, politics

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Farm Share Survival Guide: my new article on Babble

September 8, 2009

I have a new article out today on Babble, offering tips on how to survive the bounty of a summer CSA share. And not a moment too soon. My bulk orders of extra veggies for canning are due this week. I’ll have to take my advice!
Babble readers, welcome! If you’re visiting this blog for the [...]

Tagged as: food, green, writing

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Serena helping in the garden

June 17, 2009

IMG_4206.JPG, originally uploaded by MzMuze.
Serena, like most toddlers, loves to mimic everything Mommy does. Especially the things Mommy does that are not generally available to toddlers. Like operating a spray bottle full of cleaning chemicals, or using the garden tools.
Today was her day to do it all, just like a grown-up. A few of our [...]

Tagged as: food, garden, green, parenting, serena

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Strawberry Picking!

June 16, 2009

Today the girls and I went to Red Fire Farm, the organic farm that provides our vegetable CSA. The bulk of the CSA comes to us in the form of a weekly drop-off at the Growing Center, but we also have an open invitation to go pick some crops at the farm. It’s a long [...]

Tagged as: food, green, homeschooling

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The Compact

June 15, 2009

I started doing The Compact about a month ago. The Compact is simple: for one year, buy nothing new.
There are exceptions of course. These things were written into the Compact as exceptions:

perishable goods (food, cleaning products, personal care, medicine)
underwear and socks

I’m a generous sort, and I think five is a nice number, so I’m giving [...]

Tagged as: frugality, green, money

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Frantic food preservation

June 1, 2009

In the run-up to Rio’s birthday party, we bought Too Much Food. Like you do when you aren’t sure how many people will be coming to your party, or what they’ll bring to contribute, and your friends are foodies who you don’t dare serve bad pizza to even for a kids’ birthday party.
We also had [...]

Tagged as: food, frugality, green

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