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Tree Hugging Family - Living Green

Archive for the ‘Save Trees’ Category

June 30th, 2008

Reusable Bag Feature Round Up

Our month-long June theme was the hefty topic of reusable shopping bags. We blogged and blogged bags, and yet there’s so much more we could have blogged. Bags are a big deal. We’ll likely revisit this feature at some point. If you missed any bag goodness, here’s a round-up of all things reusable bags…
The BYOB […]

By Jennifer -- 0 comments

April 18th, 2008

How Green Living Saves You Money: Napkin Example

In the previous money related post I talked about why being green is so expensive - and sort of how it’s not, on a grander scale.
Like I said in my previous post, I’m willing to make changes in my life so that I can buy green products, even when they’re more expensive. You can omit […]

By Jennifer -- 8 comments

April 3rd, 2008

Quick Tip: Learn When Your Community Celebrates Arbor Day

I’ve been thinking about this since Arbor Day in Washington is coming up next week. I used to think there was a set Arbor Day across the U.S. but really we all celebrate on different days.

The Arbor Day Foundation has an easy chart that shows when your state celebrates Arbor Day. Some communities celebrate with […]

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March 20th, 2008

60 Eco-Friendly Ways to Celebrate Spring

Many of us are welcoming spring today, so I thought it would be nice to go over some nature loving, tree hugging, eco-friendly ideas that will carry the entire family through the better part of spring and into summer.
1. Quit looking at nature through your frosty windows. It’s warming up, so get out there and […]

By Jennifer -- 15 comments

March 1st, 2008

How Kids Can Help Prevent Acid Rain

Acid rain is no good. Acid rain technically refers to both wet and dry material from the atmosphere that contains large amounts of nitric and sulfuric acids. To break it down, acid rain means polluted rain, snow, fog, hail, sleet, or even dust or smoke. If it falls to the ground and it’s polluted, then […]

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February 25th, 2008

How are everyone’s green New Year’s goals going?

How hard would it be for you to just pack up and travel if the opportunity arose? Barring situating your family - how hard would it be based only on the stuff you own? Would you need one small storage space or many large ones?
My ideal answer to the question above would be, “Easy, I […]

By Jennifer -- 3 comments