Recent Posts Tagged With 'household products'

• For My Kids Products: Made from Love to be Safe.

  Posted on Thursday June 11th, 2009 at 21:26 in children, household products, children products, vegan lip balm, green household products, giveaways & discounts, antibacterial product, natural cures & treatments, natural mosquito product

  See the free giveaway below! Like many moms, Christine Steward, had an epiphany after reading the ingredients of her newborn’s products and decided to  switch to more environmentally friendly product. What makes Steward so different than most ...

• Give Dad a Swig for Father’s Day

  Posted on Wednesday June 3rd, 2009 at 01:00 in household products, water bottle, reusable water bottle, green fa

  Check out my Greensender water bottle giveaway! Every year my sister and I struggle over what to get my Dad for Father’s Day.  We always go through the same dance when that day draws near.  You know the familiar ” should we get him clot...

• My Green Mattress and the Chicago Green Festival

  Posted on Thursday May 28th, 2009 at 10:02 in household products, latex mattress, chicago green festival, mygreenmattress.com

  Featured on this video is my friend, Karan, aka Best of Mother Earth, guru of wellness and fellow Green Mom Carnival mom along with Tim Masters, owner of Mygreenmattress.com, at the Chicago Green Festival.  Get a sneek peek of the Chicago Green Fest...

• Green Crawler’s Relaunch, Better Online Green Product Shopping Experience

  Posted on Saturday April 25th, 2009 at 10:42 in beauty products, household products, green shopping, home decor & accessories, green crawler, green online shopping

  Almost two years ago I interviewed Ryan Lewis, CEO of  Green Crawler, about the Company’s unique online green shopping website.  Recently, I received an email from him telling me about the Company’s relaunch of the website and the...

• Take Care of the Earth and Yourself On Earth Day

  Posted on Monday April 20th, 2009 at 21:01 in health, holidays, sleep, organic food, beauty products, Earth Day, household products, building materials, building products, organic food products

  With Earth Day fastly approaching, I  have been pondering what should I write about. A list of 10 items on how to be kinder to the Earth?  Earth Day announcements from various not for profits helping to make our world a better place?  A gift guide...

• Franmar Soy Gel Stripper Meets it Chandelier Match

  Posted on Thursday April 16th, 2009 at 14:35 in furniture, paint, lighting, household products, paint stripper, home decor & accessories, franmar

  My life is pretty simple and relatively boring.  That was all about to change when I met a vintage chandelier that needed some TLC.   It lead me down a road that most would not have taken.  Ominous?  Kind of.  Friday the 13th? Not so scary.  I...

• Mr. Beams: Affordable LED Lights Keep You Out of the Dark

  Posted on Thursday March 26th, 2009 at 15:36 in lighting, household products, led lights, energy efficient lights, mr beams

  Editors’ note: This is a transcript from the above audio, which is 26 minutes long. It has been slightly edited so it is more readable. See the giveaway contest and purchase discounts at the end of the transcript! Read on how to see Mr. Beams&#...

• You’ve Got Green Mail March 22, 2009

  Posted on Sunday March 22nd, 2009 at 19:43 in health, children, Alternative Energy, lighting, alternative fuels, Biofuels, jatropha, household products, toxic chemicals, wind turbines, us postal service, leds

  Photo by Cavin B. Well, it is time again for some great green mail that I received or articles that I found.  Rounding up the list this week are articles ranging from what’s in your vaccines now that they have taken out mercury, powering air...

• Spring Cleaning: Remove the Clutter

  Posted on Friday March 6th, 2009 at 23:11 in recycling, household products, spring cleaning, repurpose, consignment shops, home decor & accessories, remvove clutter

  Photo by Julie Vasquez This month topic for the Green Mom’s carnival is Spring cleaning over at Jenn of Tiny Choices.  With Spring right around the corner, here is your time to fall in love with your home again by removing the clutter that hides i...

• Swap Mamas: A Mama’s Very Own Swapping, Socializing Site

  Posted on Friday February 20th, 2009 at 14:16 in children, swapping, recycle, household products, socializing, ning groups, swap mama, swapping and kids clothes

  When you think of swapping, organizations such as Freecycle, Craiglist, and other names come to mind.  Well, here is a new one to add to the Spring cleaning list…Swap Mamas, a new social networking swap site geared towards swapping everything ...

• LG’s Green Initiatives Include Solar Cell Phone

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 10:48 in technology, cell phones, LG, solar, household products, solar devices, solar cell phone, reduction of hazardous chemcials in cell phones

  Photo courtesy of LG LG Electronics announced this month that they will be unveiling their new mobile phone complete with a solar battery cover at the  Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona, Spain. “Using renewable solar energy in the mobile h...

• Your Vinyl Blow-Up Doll is a Health Hazard

  Posted on Thursday February 12th, 2009 at 21:23 in health, household products, green sex toys

  GristTV  has produced this very cute but not for little ones’ eyes video about why some of your own adult toys  (including your vinyl girlfriend) may be hazardous to your health. (Rated PG or R).  Get rid of her since she leaches nasty che...

• Verterra: The Dinnerware that Makes You Feel Good To Entertain

  Posted on Monday January 26th, 2009 at 22:18 in food, household products, fair trade products, verterra, eco friendly products and magazine, giveaways & discounts, biodegradeable plates, compostable plates

  Classic Verterra bowls and plates. Check out Verterra giveaway! I love to entertain and believe in the motto, the more people, the better.However, my love of entertaining has always clashed with my environmental side since I had to use paper plates. ...

• Sick of those Yellow Pages?

  Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 11:41 in recycling, yellow pages, household products, white pages, recycling paper, paperlesspetition.org

  Photo by Frank Hebbert You know the saying, “let your fingers do the walking through the yellow pages?”  My fingers only click keyboards these days when I am searching for a telephone number.  They hardly ever thumb through my countless...

• Make a New Year’s Resolution to give your HVAC a Tune-Up

  Posted on Monday January 12th, 2009 at 20:07 in green building, hvac, household products, building materials, hvac and energy costs, hvac maintenance, make a new year's resolution to give your hvac a tune-up

  Every year, we make New Year’s  Resolutions to lose weight, get more sleep, and eat healthier.  However, we never seem to make those resolutions about the structural components of our house.  Do you ever hear, “I vow to weather-strip m...

• New On the Forum. Are you part of the conversation?

  Posted on Sunday January 11th, 2009 at 22:51 in household products, building materials, if i only knew, forum discussions

  Join the happy people on the Forum! Two months ago I started the Green Talk Forum in a Ning version. (You can connect right through the site now by clicking on the Forum Page at the top of the Green Talk website.)  What makes this forum different...

• FDA Approves Latisse, Eyelash Enhancer, Yet No Ban on BPA.

  Posted on Saturday January 3rd, 2009 at 13:14 in children, beauty products, household products, allergan and latisse, fda and allergan, fda and big pharma, fda and bpa, fda and latisse, side effects of eye lash enhancer, side effects of latisse

  Photo by permission of Chloe Delong The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently approved Latisse, which is made by Allergan to treat a condition known as hypotrichosis of the eyelashes, or in plain English, a person who does not have enough or in...

• You’ve Got Green Mail Round-up of December 28, 2008

  Posted on Friday December 26th, 2008 at 16:29 in activism, household products, building materials, environmental websites

  Photo by Henry Heatly Last week with the holidays, I missed the “Got Green Mail” segment.  My cup overflowed with amazing stories for all green palates to enjoy.  Remember, if you have a great green story (which includes your own), d...

• Greening the Tomato Sauce Process

  Posted on Wednesday December 24th, 2008 at 09:47 in food, organic food, household products, heirloom tomatoes, organic gardening, tomato sauce, creating tomato sauce without using much energy, greening tomato sauce, low impact & tomato sauce, tomato sauce & lower carbon footprint, using tomato press, using tomato stainer

  Something so basic, can be so green. I have always admired my dear friend Paul’s  homemade tomato sauce.   He is an amazing cook and one of the first ones I call if I don’t know how to prepare something.  He knows when I ask him to br...

• Trend Hunter Magazine’s Top EcoTastic Gifts

  Posted on Sunday December 21st, 2008 at 17:31 in gifts, household products, trend hunter magazine, home decor & accessories, aluminum can underwear, cardboard box & animals heads, ecotastic gift video, hand garnet and bag, jeremy gustsche, plush animal toy furniture., recycled contents and chandelier, trend hunter tv

  Watch this short Trend Hunter Magazine’s video of an outstanding group of ecoterrific gifts ranging from lamps made out of garbage or tampons (I know, eww), underwear made out of aluminum cans to cardboard taxidermy even PETA would approve. ...

• Think Twice Before You Buy Another Cotton T-shirt

  Posted on Friday December 19th, 2008 at 14:24 in fabric, household products, cotton, clothing & accessories, home decor & accessories, cotton t-shirt, india & cotton, indian farmers & cotton, indian farmers & pesticides

    Watch this video about how the cotton in  your t-shirt is grown in India. Trust me, you will never buy another non-organic cotton t-shirt again especially when you see the amount of pesticides used and the harm it is causing the people using the...

• Studio OM’s Soapberries: The little Nut Detergent That Could

  Posted on Thursday December 18th, 2008 at 13:16 in household products, soap nuts, soapberries, biodegradeable detergents, dishwasher soap and nontoxic, green and detergents, household cleaner and nontoxic, natural detergents, no plastic and detergents, nontoxic detergents, studio om

  What is round, comes off a tree, and cleans your laundry without polluting the Earth?  (No, this is not a trick question like who comes first the chicken and the egg.  We all know the answer to that question, the egg!)  Okay, back to the question,...

• Save our Ancient Trees: Buy and Use Recycled Paper

  Posted on Wednesday December 10th, 2008 at 22:14 in environment, Paper, recycle, household products, recycled paper, informed, recycled toliet paper, destruction of the forests and paper, paper industry and recycling, recyclable products, secret life of trees, secret life videos

  Video by Informed as part of the Secret Life series Do you know the secret life of paper? Do you know that how many trees are cut down in the name of paper you use for the toliet, copy machine, or every day use?  Informed, a not for profit has creat...

• How Important is Buying Fair Trade Items?

  Posted on Thursday November 13th, 2008 at 21:13 in food, fair trade, household products, fair trade products, home decor & accessories, how people feel about fair trade products, survey about fair trade products

  Photo by permission of Robert Whitlock Thaddeus Truitt, a senior at University of Oregon, recently contacted me about a survey that he is doing for his business administration class, “ Business Strategies and Planning”  taught by Profe...

• Send a Message to Walt Disney to Green Clean

  Posted on Thursday October 30th, 2008 at 16:33 in travel, children, environment, household products, disneyland, disney world, green cleaning parties, and justice, chej and green cleaning products, disney world and green cleaning, go green disney campaign, the center for health

  Photo of the some of the unhappy dwarfs at CHEJ The other day I caught a glimpse of a television ad featuring young children wishing for a Disney World vacation with the slogan that now there are affordable trips to meet everyone’s budgets. Wi...

• Lemons Vanquish Pots’ Heat Ring Woes

  Posted on Thursday October 23rd, 2008 at 13:07 in household products, green tips, lemon juice for household use, lemons & household use, lemons and cooking pots, lemons and stainless steel, natural stainless steel cleaner

  I am a perfectionist when it comes to how my cooking pans look. It is almost like a not so gleaming pan is a reflection of me. (I know. Therapy is available for us perfectionist types.)  I especially dislike heat rings which look like rainbows in ...

• Keys Could be Hazardous to Your Child’s Health

  Posted on Monday October 20th, 2008 at 20:20 in children, household products

  Please watch this video sent to me by Sommer Poquette of Green and Clean Mom.  She is taping Jess of the Green Phone Booth and Jennifer of Smart Mama.  Jess has just handed Jennifer her brass keys to test for lead and other carcinogenic materials.Â...

• A Fire Department Leading the Way to a Greener Lifestyle

  Posted on Wednesday October 1st, 2008 at 15:39 in recycling, household products

  Some of the Hunky Firemen that make this Auction happen. September is known for apple picking, back to school and the Harding, NJ Fire Department’s annual auction.  Huh, you reply?  What is the Harding Fire Department Auction?  Well, if you...

• The Kitchen Pantry: Clutter Free but Still Losing the Battle

  Posted on Tuesday September 9th, 2008 at 21:14 in household products, green tips, kitchen clutter, kitchen pantry, cleaning up kitchen cabinets, cleaning up kitchen pantry, junk free kitchen, reducing the amount of grocery products

  Do you think we have enough energy bars? I have a confession. I have not organized my pantry for three years. I just clean around the multiple boxes of who knows what my husband buys and leave it at that. He is the food shopper in the family. And tha...

• The Junk-Free Thirty Day Challenge

  Posted on Saturday September 6th, 2008 at 17:34 in recycling, swapping, household products, junk, green tips, good for the earth, cleaning up junk, cleaning up stuff, giveaway junk, giving away junk, giving away stuff, recycling junk

  Your mission if you dare to accept it (Mission Impossible music, please) is a thirty day promise to junk-free your house. It is your challenge, and therefore your decision how far you want to rid yourself of your junk. Why am I issuing this challenge...