Yesterday April 7th Heather and Mike of The Spohrs are Multiplying* lost their two-year-old little girl. As Susan and Janice announced this morning, today the online community is mourning a loss so genuinely and heartbreakingly felt, but what is more, we are spreading the word about donating in Maddie’s name, so that more children can…
Category Archives: Eco-Friends
Recycling Yarn For Green Knitting (And A Giveaway!)
As MacKenzie touched on in her February 5th article, knitting is a great and relatively green hobby. My mom has found a way to make it even more eco-friendly –- by using recycled yarn. Recycled yarn can be purchased, but she takes more of a do-it-yourself approach, buying sweaters at thrift stores to unravel and…
Around The Greenosphere: Weekly Link Roundup
Here are some of our favorite posts from around the greenosphere this week, to help start your weekend a bit greener. Monday Inhabitat announced that MIO will be releasing a new green outdoor line for Target, set to be available in stores April 12th. The product assortment includes eight outdoor items made from recycled and…
Skeeda Giveaway Winners!
With 297! comments our skeeda review and giveaway was our biggest yet. A big thanks! to everyone who visited both here and the skeeda site to support such a great green mom-owned business. Now, onto our two! lucky winners (chosen at random) who will each be receiving a reusable skeeda bag of their choosing. The…
Great Green Giveaway: Skeeda
By now most of us know that plastic shopping bags comprise a significant amount of the world’s plastic waste, with The Wall Street Journal estimating that the United States alone consumes 100 billion shopping bags a year. 100 billion is 99.9 billion too many. The great thing about that outrageous number is that it can…
Recycled Note Of The Week: Renée Anne
Every week or so we use this space to feature a recycled note or three from some of our favorite online sources. This week I stumbled upon this Happy Birthday Cake card from Renée Anne’s Etsy shop and fell instantly in love with the simple (and 100% recycled!) design. From the seller: Chocolate Birthday cake is…
Around The Greenosphere: Weekly Link Roundup
Here are some of our favorite posts from around the greenosphere this week, to help start your weekend a bit greener. Monday No Impact Man posted a sobering but important article about “the toxic mess left behind when Texaco withdrew from the Ecuadorian Amazon in the 1990s,” inspired by Joe Berlinger’s new documentary Crude. Monday…
Go Green With Your Spring Cleaning
It’s that time of year again to go through our homes, clean out the cobwebs, and freshen up things for spring. I don’t know about you, but this has never been one of my favorite tasks! Nonetheless it needs to be done, so, what better time could there be to start introducing some green cleaning…
Bummas Giveaway Winners!
As Bummas graciously offered to give away two sets of their super absorbent and eco-friendly clothes for baby bums the world ’round, we have two! winners for this particular giveaway. The first winner is… (imaginary drumroll, please): Commenter #12, Danielle! And the second winner? Commenter #135, Amy H.! Congratulations! ladies. And a big thanks to…
Recycled Note Of The Week: Pretty & Plantable
Every week we use this space to feature a recycled note or three from some of our favorite online sources. This week I found an Etsy shop specializing in cards comprised of 100% recycled paper embedded with wildflower, sunflower, spruce and clover seeds. All of the cards sporting the aforementioned seeds can be purchased at…
