Category: Green Choices
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Spay Day 2010
It’s Spay Day, and PETA reminds you why with their celeb-filled ads in the slide below. Having your pet spayed or neutered is the humane thing to do, for your pet and the environment. Since some of these ads are a bit racy, please click if you want to continue…
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PVC-free Dryer Balls
Back in 2008 at another blog, I wrote a post called Dryer Balls of PVC about how disappointed I was that so many of the so-called green dryer balls contained PVC (polyvinyl chloride) — an ingredient many companies are phasing out due to health and environmental concerns. Later, someone left…
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Review: Bagnesia Reusable Produce Bags
The bag Bagnesia reusable produce bags come in a set of four, all the same size (13″ x 16″). The machine washable nylon bags retail for $7.99 for the set at grabyourbags.com. FYI: I received one set of bags at no charge for review. Likes The bags are multi-taskers: You…
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Silikids Giveaway: Siliskin Glass
Want to try a “big kid” glass that’s non-toxic, BPA-free and not plastic? The new siliskin glass from Silikids may be the next cool drinking glass for the toddler in your life. It’s a real eco-friendly glass with a food-grade silicone cover for padding against breakage, not to mention a…
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Reduce Paper Towel Usage
One thing you can do to change your habits in honor of upcoming Earth Day is to take a long, hard look at your paper towel usage. And maybe stop using altogether. Sure, paper towels can be handy for things like cleaning up kitty vomit or patting the grease off…
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Green Book Review: Remake it Home
For the handy DIYer, Remake it Home provides projects and inspiration on reusing just about anything to make a new item for the house. (I received a free copy for review.) Remake it Home: The Essential Guide to Resourceful Living by Henrietta Thompson includes 20 step-by-step projects revealing how to…
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Making Your Own Eco-friendly Popcorn
The sheer volume and variety of microwave popcorn available in grocery stores tells me just how popular the stuff is. Have you thought about how wasteful it is? The typical microwave popcorn is sold in a cardboard box with each bag of popcorn wrapped in an outer layer of plastic.…
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Organic Color-Grown Cotton Rag Dolls
What could be safer than an organic color-grown cotton doll? Color-grown organic cotton has natural color — no need for dyes. Taraluna, one of my favorite online fair trade shops, has just started carrying some adorable rag dolls. If you know me at all, you’re not surprised I’m showing you…
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Inspiration to Clean Green
This video is an interesting, obscene (sort of) green take on the Scrubbing Bubbles commercials. It’s sponsored by Method. Their website, PeopleAgainstDirty.com, encourages you to voice your concerns about getting better labels on household cleaning products. You can read about the Household Product Labeling Acts that, if passed, would require…
Light Green Stairs 