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Category: Green Choices

  • What a handle!

    This groovy, curvy green goddess is a mighty fine tooth cleaning tool. Of course, you can buy Preserve toothbrushes in a variety of colors, but I thought the green would be appropriate for this post. What’s so cool about the Preserve toothbrush from Recycline? In terms of use: * This…

  • Check out my guest post

    Today at Tree Hugging Family, I have a post about giving used gifts. Please check it out!

  • Saying bye to another paper product

    When I started my green efforts in 2007, I stopped buying disposable plates and  cups. I also reduced my use of paper towels and office paper. However, I was still using paper baking cups. Two of my small goals for 2008 are to stop using paper napkins (more on that…

  • Merry Christmas

    Whatever holiday you celebrate, please be safe and happy. I really appreciate all of my readers for 2007, and I hope you do stick around for my green adventures in 2008. The photo above is my happy little living Christmas tree from 2002.

  • Last-last-minute gift idea

    Ok. I’ll stop with the gifts after this. I admire this candle so much I have to post about it. Aveda’s soy wax candle, shampure, is made from 25 pure flower and plant essences, including certified organic lavender. You know how organic foods tend to taste better? Candles made with…

  • Last-minute gift idea

      Don’t you love the little birdies that hang around in the winter to brighten your backyard? Wild Birds Unlimited sells bird feeders made from recycled milk jugs. EcoTough bird feeders are guaranteed to last a lifetime. A recycled product that will last a lifetime? What better gift is there?…

  • Here it is . . .

    Here’s my lovely or not-so-lovely (you decide) experiment with reusing catalog sheets for gift wrapping. For larger gifts like this, it would make more sense to use a discarded map to avoid having to tape the pages together. This gift was wrapped from Pottery Barn catalog pages and part of…

  • Wrapping with catalogs

    I haven’t forgotten about my promise to reuse magazines, catalogs, calendars, maps, etc. for wrapping gifts. I will post a photo soon of my first experiment. Meanwhile, I thought I’d get you thinking about how many very colorful images you can find in many catalogs. Pottery Barn catalogs contain many…

  • Ask for green for Christmas

    Not money, of course. If you’ve been wanting to go more green, but need a few tools to make it easier, add them to your Christmas list. That way, when someone asks you what you want for Christmas, you can talk about reusable shopping bags and all that fun stuff!…

  • The way we used to wrap gifts?

    I’ve been thinking about this one quite a bit. I really love a cute gift bag, and just saw some old-fashioned Christmas bags made of kraft paper at Target. However, they weren’t made from recycled materials. There’s always wrapsacs.com, subject of a post back in September. But how do you…