Food to Live By: The Earthbound Farm Organic Cookbook by Earthbound Farm founder Myra Goodman and co-authors offers pleasing style with good-quality, wholesome ingredients. You can make all of the recipes organic if you choose organic ingredients.
Some sample recipes are included below for your holiday cooking fun, but in the cookbook, you’ll also find recipes for Sweet Corn Chowder, Farm Stand Carrot Cake and more. I’m getting hungry!

Myra’s cookbook contains more than 250 recipes, plus full-color photos — and even some shopping tips and serving ideas. She also includes “field guides” to produce and “Farm Fresh” information boxes, as well …read more

For the handy DIYer, Remake it Home provides projects and inspiration on reusing just about anything to make a new item for the house. (I received a free copy for review.)
Remake it Home: The Essential Guide to Resourceful Living by Henrietta Thompson includes 20 step-by-step projects revealing how to make things like a freezer from terra cotta pots or a layered cupcake stand from plates and cups.

At 272 pages, the emphasis isn’t really on the step-by-step projects. The book serves as more of a visual and inspirational showcase of products remade from items that have served their purpose — junk. …read more

Kids’ Kitchen 40 Fun and Healthy Recipes to Make and Share written by Fiona Bird and illustrated by Roberta Arenson is a cook kids cooking deck with 40 cards (6″x8″ ) that share healthy ideas about easy recipes that kids can make.

This deck is child-friendly and colorful plus all forty recipes in this cute deck are based around the five main food groups, and offer a focus on healthy eating.  Food and vitamin facts are included, along with plenty of veggie and fruit filled recipes, which is nice (it’s not packed with meat).

The cool names like Picnic Kabobs, Apple Volcanoes, …read more

Today I’ve got a product review for you that will make the perfect green stocking stuffer, a great housewarming gift, or even just a nice, “I’m thinking about you” gift.

PRODUCT: Simple Steps Deck Healthy Home. Healthy Planet. 50 Easy Actions by the Natural Resources Defense Council (Chronicle Books; August, 2009).
COST: $14.95
ABOUT THE DECK:
Simple Steps is a sweet little deck of 3-3/4 x 5-1/2 in cards (51 in all). There’s a hole punch at the top of the deck and it’s tied shut with a black ribbon, which of course holds the cards together. The cards do not come in …read more

That post title is the whole premise of a new movie, No Impact Man, coming out on September 11th 2009 in New York and Los Angeles, with national dates of release to follow. No Impact Man is a documentary, Sundance 2009 official selection about one New York City family’s attempt to leave as little environmental impact as possible. BUT in this case the husband of the family is way on board while his wife is a meat eating, espresso drinking, TV watching gal; which is all good unless your husband, Colin, is attempting to leave nothing behind.
See the trailer:

The basics: …read more

In huge green kid news the Lorax is all set to hit the big screen in March 2012 – so technically not THAT soon. Still though; awesome news. The Lorax, written back in the early 70s (even before I arrived on the planet) is, as we all know a story of a tree hungry entrepreneur. Despite warnings from a little creature, the Lorax, Mr. Entrepreneur (or the Once-ler, who by the way is also the narrator of this tale) cuts down all the trees to fuel his own needs.

And what happens – the trees are dead, the animals leave, and …read more

A long while back I read the old 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth and it rocked. Now there’s a fresh edition out sure to inspire a whole new generation of green.

Product: The New 50 Simple Things Kids Can Do to Save the Earth by EarthWorks Group’s John Javna (plus some kids) published by Andrews McMeel Publishing
Cost: $8.83 at Amazon.com
Reviewers: Myself and my eight-year-old Cedar
What I like about the book:
The book was printed on recycled paper with soy ink!
Kids were involved in writing this book. The forward letter to kids is, in fact, by 15 year …read more

Since we’re a few days into our ParentsDigest Subscription Giveaway we should take a moment to look at the prize, and the services offered by ParentsDigest.

WHAT IT IS:
ParentsDigest is the perfect service for parents who feel totally overwhelmed by the sheer amount of baby and parenting books out there. Their motto is, “We read the books so you don’t have to.” Nice for a busy parent. Like speedy parent Cliff-Notes.
HOW PARENTSDIGEST WORKS:
ParentsDigest is a an online subscription service offering book summaries of popular parenting books. The experts at ParentsDigest “Read the best and most popular books about parenting and …read more

In continuing with my reviews this week, I thought it would be nice to look at a holiday-minded product. On with the show…
Product: Celebrate Green! Creating Eco-Savvy Holidays, Celebrations and Traditions for the Whole Family by Corey Colwell-Lipson and Lynn Colwell
Basics: Celebrate Green is a mama-daughter book collaboration – the title is fairly self-explanatory – this is a book about all things related to green holiday celebrations.
Cost: Family friendly at only $17.95. Plus for a limited time, you can score an even better deal. “Right now when you order a copy of Celebrate Green! from our website, you can choose …read more

I wanted to get to my review of Eco-Touch  – conscious car care because so far I’m loving the interior wash – however, I’d also like to try out the exterior wash, and it’s been raining and raining – I missed the two sunny days we had. That said, we may need to break this up. Tomorrow, look for a review of the interior car care products from Eco-Touch.
Now, books don’t require nice weather to review, so today we’re going to look at….
Green Christmas: How to Have a Joyous, Eco-Friendly Holiday Season by Jennifer Basye Sander & Peter Sander.
Basics: Make …read more