A few years ago, I send off a form letter from Greenpeace to Kimberly Clarke, asking them to stop using old growth forests in their toilet paper. I got a reply (which I totally wasn’t expecting) that explained they had to use the old growth forests to make the toilet paper soft enough. I was [...]
About 3 weeks ago now I got 9 inches cut off my hair to donate to the Cancer Society. I went through the Pantene Beautiful Lengths program. I chose them mostly because that had very clear concise instructions and a free mailing label to send the hair.
It felt like a drastic change to me, but [...]
Last Weekend my favorite brother-in-law scored my sister and I passes to the clothing show. It was a bit overwhelming but I found 2 great green designers-ecofriendly, environmentally sound, trash free and stylish! I didn’t buy anything from wither of them but would like to in the future. The first was Bee Organic from Athena [...]
I had our home made toothpaste in a glass jar, but Kyle was concerned about germ mixing if we were both dunking our toothbrush in. I have always been lax on things like that because I think of the multitude of other ways our germs are mixing, but to make him feel better, I put [...]
Aurora now likes Oak Manor organic bulk rice cereal! She ate the whole bowl and wanted more! She also likes avocado and sweet potato-no packages there either. I knew she was a “tree hugger” at heart!
A few weeks ago I met my brother (who lives in Midland) at IKEA for a fun family outing. He thought it was hilarious that he was meeting his anti- consumer sister at a big box store. Well, I’m not anti consumer. I have to admit, I love to shop! But, I do think [...]
So it’s been over a month since I’ve blogged- Sorry! Same old excuses- I’m looking after the baby, chasing sleep etc. etc. Ahhhh sleep, some day I will catch you again. If I was smart I would be sleeping right now, since the girl is, but instead I’m here! I’ve been away so long [...]
A few years ago, I tried really hard to make the post office stop sending me junk mail, but to no avail. Now there is a system in place so one can refuse junk mail. Yaaay! My favorite brother in law sent me this article from the Star . Thanks Andrew!
Red dot campaign’ raises awareness [...]
I’ve had two big buying boo boos this week. First of all, I needed suede protector for my new boots-which were also not what I wanted but the sales guy was really persuasive. We went to Pay Less and I bought the only bottle they had that said it would protect suede. I didn’t look [...]
OK, not everything, but I like that song and it makes a clever title, if I do say so myself.
It seems that as soon as I find a great product with no packaging, it stops being made or suddenly comes with a big package! This time, it’s batteries. A few years ago I discovered that [...]
