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Feeding Our Communities One Click at a Time

© Jeroen Van Daal “14.2% of rural households are food insecure, an estimated 2.8 million households” Tis the season for family fun and when our family gets together for the holidays it means good food and lots of it. But what is easy to forget when our kids are nestled all snug in their beds, visions of sugarplums dancing in their heads, and we, all snuggled up in our warm winter caps watching … Continue Reading »

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No More Headaches with Natura Zero-VOC Paint

Benjamin Moore Natura Waterborne Interior Paint: an Environmentally Friendly Paint with Style While some people might like that new paint smell it turns out that smell, or the chemicals that cause that smell are pretty harmful. Volatile organic compounds or VOC’s are basically chemical compounds that are small enough to vaporize or become airborne. The VOC’s in paints, air fresheners and household cleaning products build up in a home and can cause allergies, … Continue Reading »

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Black Friday Sale on FEED Bags an Eco-Friendly Life Saver

In the true spirit of earth friendliness and Black Friday super sales Amazon offered a Black Friday Week Lightning Deal on the World Food Programme Feed Bag. The Feed Bags which are normally $35 were on sale for a whopping 71% off which made them only $10. While the big Black Friday sale may be over these eco-friendly FEED bags help support a fabulous cause – feeding school children so they can focus … Continue Reading »

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Save the Endangered Ice Cream Bean Tree – Help Plant A Billion Trees!

I knew it – there IS such a thing as an ice cream tree (I’m still looking for the money tree, I’ll let you know when I find it). The Ice Cream Bean Tree is found in Central and Southern America. It is called the ice cream bean tree because it produces bean pods up to 1 meter long which contain a sweet, juicy, white pulp that has a soft cotton wool texture … Continue Reading »

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Bye Bye Siggy BPA Free ThinkSport Bottle Giveaway

Did you miss out on the free Sigg return program for their bottles containing BPA like I did? Well, don’t fret you have the chance to win an even better water bottle from ThinkSport. (plus BPA Sigg’s make a great vase for flowers) I’ve been reading about the thinksport bottles made by thinkbaby and they sound like a much better product. First off they are double walled and vacuum sealed stainless steel – … Continue Reading »

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Earth Friendly Photo Friday – Spooky Style

Anybody Home? Welcome to another edition of Earth Friendly Photo Friday, and what better way to celebrate Friday the 13th than with a spooky iridescent photo. I love the lighting in this photo and the spooky vibrant green. It is certainly reminiscent of any number of those classic horror films like Friday the 13th. (Hello, Anybody there…) You’ll have to give some great feedback to Sylvain and check out his other earth friendly … Continue Reading »

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Beware of Catnip Crazed Cat: An Herby AeroGarden Overthrow

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Catnip Crazed Cat Chooses the AeroGrow AeroGarden Paws Down As winter grows closer and closer these days thoughts of square foot gardens and fresh herbs have to be put on hold until next spring. I feel somewhat sorry for my basil plant as it struggles inside and if it had eyes I’m sure they would longingly gaze outside and yearn for warmer days and fresh air. I was perusing the latest Amazon email … Continue Reading »

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Earthopoly An Earth Friendly Monopoly Game

If you and your family are Monopoly junkies you’ll get a kick out of this monopoly game variation. I was perusing eBay’s World of Good and came across this earth-friendly find – Earthopoly. Just like the rest of the Opoly family of games Earthopoly is a board game in which you collect properties. But in an earth friendly twist you increase your property values by collecting Carbon Credits and trading them in for … Continue Reading »

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