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Morning mill in Oud Zuilen © Jeroen van Daal It’s always fun finding new photos for Earth Friendly Photo Friday especially when you find a new artist when you aren’t even looking. This gem of an artist was a delightful surprise while I was looking for featured photos for yesterday’s post on ending rural hunger. This month’s photo comes all …

© 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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Last Spring I read a short little interview with Ed Begley Jr. about how to cost effectively green your home. At the time he was helping Natural Health Magazine choose the winners for the 2009 Green Choice Awards. He gave a few green tips we all hear often but procrastinate on implementing like rain water collection barrels for watering house …

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 …

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 …