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Gardening Nude is an inspirational blog built by Shawna Coronado to encourage greening and community improvement. It's ideas and lessons are simple; improving health, lifestyle greening, and building community will enable readers to live well and hap
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Save Our Landfills From Textile and Clothing Waste; Reuse What You Have!
American textile waste, according to the EPA's 1988 study on the United States Generation of Solid Waste, accounts for over 3.9 million tons of the solid waste stream. Post-consumer textile waste is most typically garments or household items like...
Pumpkin Seeds - How Halloween Can Teach Your Children About Nature
All summer long our family grew pumpkins; first we planted tiny plants in the soil – they flowered bright orange flowers as large as my hand. Green balls soon formed in the early summer and grew into larger pumpkins mid-summer. Finally, in Sept...
A Trip To Indiana in Fall Get Out In Nature For Better Health and More Energy
Can spending time in nature – you know – out in the dirt and weather - improve your health? According to growing scientific evidence on nature’s healing power – YES! Last weekend, my family’s journey to Indiana is testimony of that. Of cou...
Feeding the Hungry A Homemade Video On How You and Your Children Can Make A Difference For A Food Bank!
According to AmpleHarvest.org,”an estimated 100 billion pounds of food, enough to totally eliminate hunger, is thrown away annually in the United States.” Be shocked – and then make a difference for your community by stopping the waste. Regular...
Kids and Recycling Expand Their Brains When They Say, Im Bored!
Fall rainy days and children combine to produce the inevitable complaint, “I’m bored.” Not too long ago my youngest daughter and I came up with a genius solution to the “I’m bored’s” which was fun and educational. Here’s how it went...
Kids and Recycling Expand Their Brains When They Say, Im Bored!
Fall rainy days and children combine to produce the inevitable complaint, “I’m bored.” Not too long ago my youngest daughter and I came up with a genius solution to the “I’m bored’s” which was fun and educational. Here’s how it......
Show Your Children Nature I Spy A Green Leaf Bug
Katydid’s can be heard all over the Eastern United States as well as the Midwest, but rarely do we see them because of their incredibly wonderful camouflage. Today my nine year old daughter and I got lucky and spotted one on the front window, w...
Show Your Children Nature I Spy A Green Leaf Bug
Katydid’s can be heard all over the Eastern United States as well as the Midwest, but rarely do we see them because of their incredibly wonderful camouflage. Today my nine year old daughter and I got lucky and spotted one......
Children Can Make A Difference and Help Their Community Case In Point The Llama Mama Saga
Jennifer Lund is one determined woman. For twelve years she has dreamed of having llamas on her property in Warrenville, Illinois. Jennifer is a skilled knit and fiber artist with no pets at home. Having llamas seemed an imaginative and......
Mom, what does a cricket eat? Is Your Child Suffering From Nature Deficit Disorder?
Is your child touching nature regularly? It might just be detrimental to their health if they are not able to experience the greater natural world. When my daughter asked me “Mom, what does a cricket eat?” I immediately jumped online......
Greening is Easy AND Can Make You A Profit Garage Sale Sustainability
Here it is – a giant fallacy about living a sustainable lifestyle: that you need to spend a lot of time and money to make it happen. Many times I have heard my friends say, “I refuse to do anything......
WATER The Chicago Field Museum Educates on the Importance of Earths Most Precious Resource
Water. Earth’s most precious resource. With only six countries holding nearly half of the world’s fresh water supply, you can imagine the importance of our educating our children and neighbors on why we should be conserving water. The Field Museu...
How 14 Days In The Yucatan Made Me Realize the Value of Planet Earth Part 2
Visiting the Sian Ka’an Biosphere Reserve was one of the most interesting and powerful experiences I have ever had with nature. Sian Ka’an is recognized under UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme and is considered a World Heritage Site. My....
Get Your Children Out In Nature Study Cabbage Caterpillars In The Garden
We discovered cabbage worms in our broccoli. Ick. Gross. Blech. Nasty. Then my eight year old and I discovered that the Cabbage Worm Butterfly (known as the “Cabbage White”) is what the Cabbage Worm Caterpillar develops into. What a fantastic......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Food Waste Is A Serious Problem Do Something About It At Home
This is what I saw several weeks ago when I went to clean up breakfast. Wasted food. I am sure you are wondering why six or seven bites of bread crumbs really makes a difference, right? It makes a difference......
Monday Whazzup Learning To Be Green in High School
One of the most important life lessons we can ever teach our children is how to give back to the world. That is what Gloria Latta and her team of environmental educators at Wheaton Warrenville South High School is doing......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday Teach Children To Shop With the Brilliant, Amazing, and Beautiful Reusable Bag
Last week I wrote about my experience with Borders – that I was overjoyed about their new “no bag unless requested” policy. Why? Plastic bags are made from ethylene, a petroleum byproduct. In the United States, approximately 12 million barrels....
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - Oak Savannah Prairie - A Day To Remember
Near my home in Illinois, the Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab) exists on hundreds of acres and is considered unique because the site contains most of the major types of ecosystems representative of the Midwest. These include tall gras...
Monday Whazzup - Recycling Old Headphones Into A Necklace - Another Awesome Green Teen Craft
Most teens and college aged music lovers go through headphones like they're going out of style. While there are several things I use the old headphones for - including garden ties and ties to organize extension cords - my favorite......
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - How to Recycle A T-Shirt Into A Carry Bag - An Eco-friendly Teen Craft!
Recently, my teenager took a class at her high school on the environmental sciences. Happily, the class taught her a lot about the concept of reduce, reuse, and recycle - she enthusiastically walked prairies, collected seeds in nature, and studied......
Get Yo Green on Tuesdays - SAVE LANDFILLS - Recycle Carpet With Green Kid Crafts
Carpet America Recovery Effort (CARE) is a joint industry-government effort to increase the amount of recycling and reuse of post-consumer carpet and reduce the amount of waste carpet going to landfills. According to the CARE statistics, 5 billion po...
Gardening Nude Naked Winner of the Week: Greg Christian, The Green Catering Super Hero
On Friday's, Gardening Nude The Blog features a special person for the day. This person is the "Naked Winner of the Week." Every person featured in this category is a winner for doing great things for the community and is......
Get Your Green On Tuesdays Teaching Children Recycling and Green-Crafts
Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle: the “greenie” mantra. One of my favorite ways to practice the 3 R’s is to save trash from the landfill by recycling it in the form of a craft. Being the first week in January, my......
Monday Whazzup - Get Your Children Out In Winter Nature to Encourage Better Health
Kids spend too little time outdoors in nature. During the Winter, particularly in the northern states, it is particularly difficult to get children active outside. However, it is critical for their health. According to Richard Louv, the author of Las...
Get Yo Green On Tuesday - A Green Teen Activity During Winter Break - Recycle and REMIX!
It is Winter Break - that dreaded time when all parents sigh a collective groan. How do you keep your kids busy for two weeks of no-school-snow-day-filled holiday? I have the answer: RECYCLE! Teens and pre-teens are all about self-expression.......
Green and Simple Tip - Turn Water Off When Brushing Your Teeth!
The simplest and easiest green thing that everyone in the world can do with no trouble at all? CONSERVE WATER AND TURN THE FAUCET OFF WHEN YOU BRUSH YOUR TEETH! It is so easy a child can learn to do......
Get Yo' Green On Tuesdays - Dangers of Christmas Lights, Garden Lights and Mini-Light Toxins - A Christmas Light Product Warning
Get ready to be shocked: holiday lighting, is poisonous! Every year my children and I decorate our tree with holiday lights - so do millions of children and parents around the world. Did you know that these lights are filled......
Get Your Green On Tuesday - Shower Together and Conserve Water
Drought is not seasonal in most of the world and water is becoming increasingly scarce within the United States as well. What does this mean for the average person? It means that conserving water and not wasting should be something......
Monday Whazzup - Make Green Holiday Gifts and Bring Family Together
Scarf making fabric - $30. Hot cocoa - $1. Scissors - Free. Spending a snowy afternoon with your children making inexpensive, green-packaged, no-sew, thoughtful homemade gifts - Priceless!!! Why spend hours at a shopping center agonizing over the rid...
Thankful - Foreclosure and Bankruptcy Does Not Mean The End of Nature's Beauty For Children
======================= This special Thanksgiving blog is an excerpt from Shawna's newspaper column, The Casual Gardener (www.thecasualgardener.com). Enjoy! ======================= Dear Casual Gardener, This year so many things have changed at my hou...
