With Fall comes the lovely colors, the cooler weather, and a whole bunch of clean up. Already our small neighborhood is buzzing with the sounds of maintenance guys cleaning up the leaves with leaf blowers, riding mowers with leaf baskets attached, and leaf shredders. Typically our family does not hire anyone to do this annual clean up, we do it ourselves, but boy is it overwhelming. We have the biggest yard in the area I think...over 2 acres and about 75 trees. The amount of leaves is horrendous … [Read more...]
Klean Kanteen Kolors!!
Woot! My fave reusable water bottle for myself has always been Klean Kanteen. All three of my kids have the kiddie version to. I was SUPER excited to find out that they now offer Kolors! I still like the sleek look of the original version but the colors are HOT, especially the sippy bottles for kids. These bottles are BPA Free, solid stainless steel, and the colors are free of lead, cadmium, and chromium. There are six new colors: green moss, pink, ocean blue, black, tree bark, and orange. … [Read more...]
Natural and Green Highchairs
A reader recently asked me about natural/green highchairs and what I would recommend. This is an awesome question and one that becomes important as we learn more and more about how certain plastics are just not safe for baby. Most conventional highchairs are made of plastic so therein we have a problem. So....what natural and/or green highchairs do I recommend? I do in fact still have a child in a highchair and we opted to get a wood highchair...so that would be my first … [Read more...]
Eco Friendly Friday Tip: Bamboo
I have been a fan of bamboo ever since I bought a bamboo cloth diaper for the first time about two years ago. It was super soft like velour and quickly became a favorite. After that I got a couple bamboo cutting boards and some dinnerware pieces. That was as far as my exploration of bamboo went until recently. I don't know why it took me so long to try some other bamboo products but it did. Corinne at a great company called The Company Store sent me a bamboo towel and a set of luxurious … [Read more...]
The Chico Bag
Great product alert!! I am behind the times on this one I think but now it is my turn to sing the praises of the Chico Bag. I do use reusable bags when I go shopping. Heck, I don't want to be one of those average Americans that uses 700 plastic bags a year. In fact I am something of a freakish curiosity here in my small town thanks to that green living habit but I have always used canvas totes bags. Some I ordered wholesale but mostly I used various bags I have collected over the years. This … [Read more...]
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