Kaiser Permanente’s new Modesto Medical Center opened last week, as one of the greenest facilities in America. This is an interesting development, and hopefully, more medical and other public-minded facilities will follow suit. Since opening, the hospital has received national recognition from environmental advocates as one of the “greenest” health care facilities in North America. This is Kaiser Permanente’s first hospital to be registered under the Green Guide for Health Care.
Some of the Modesto Medical Center’s earth-friendly features include: 

Use of natural light, with large windows incorporated into hallways, patient rooms, and the main entrance.
The hospital will be fully wired with …read more

(Post written by Gayla)
The b5media Lifestyles Channel is excited to announce our Second Annual Channel Wide Blogtoberfest!
Blogtoberfest will run an entire two weeks throughout our channel beginning Monday, October 6th and wrapping up Friday, October 17th.
Here’s how it will work:
Each day select blogs within the channel will post as usual, the only difference is, they’ll post our beautiful Blogtoberfest button (shown above) and a special note letting you know that it is a sponsored post. That particular post will have a secret prize assigned to it from our list of awesome prizes that will be announced prior to opening day.
All …read more

Do you want a little publicity from the entire Lifestyles Channel on b5media?
From October 6 – 17th, we’ll be hosting our Second Annual Lifestyles Channel Blogtoberfest.
We’re planning to run this event for two weeks during the month of October (or until the prizes run out). During that two weeks, we’ll be giving away some amazing prizes.

Cedar is out and about so I did the final drawing — don’t worry though. With me I’m too scared silly of krama to cheat. I was that kid who never ever stole and barely lied. Once when I was nine I took a piece of my sister’s Halloween candy and I felt bad for seriously the rest of the year. Not that I don’t have other faults but screwing with karma doesn’t happen to be one of them.
I think that fewer people than average entered for this prize which means your chances of winning went up considerably. Thanks to …read more

This really has nothing to do with tree hugging of any sort but it’s way too cool not to show everywhere so I figured I’d do my part to spread it around. If we have to make this sustainable I’d say save a clock (lots of parts to recycle) and instead use the human clock on your computer.
The Human Clock project is the brain child of one fella, Craig D. Giffen, from my hometown (Portland, OR) who decided to create a human clock using photos. It’s easier to show than explain.
In Craig’s words from his site:
“Humanclock.com shows a photograph of …read more

Cedar wanted to help out on this one. The photos are a tad fuzzy — since my camera broke I’ve been using my camera phone. It’s ok; although I need to just go buy a new phone. I can’t get motivated.
We had a long day and he’s tired thus kooky so…

Kooky Cedar tries to make the pumpkin look like his head…

Then he decides to draw the name upside down.

Pondering… the slip of paper.

And the winner is….

Tree hugging families came out to play big-time this round! We had ten great comments from ten individuals. Normally my son likes to draw names for contests I have at various blogs so that I can post his picture with the winning name. Sadly he’s out and about with family today so he’ll have to draw the next winner.
Today you get me. I will not however post my picture because I’m no where near as cute as my son.
I randomly drew from our ten entries and the winner is….
Homemom3!!!
Thanks to Busy Body Books, Tree Hugging Family will be awarding Homemom3 …read more

Today the Family and Relationships Channel at b5media is officially launching Blogtoberfest!
We have tons of great prizes to be given away. Prizes are available to U.S. and Canada residents unless otherwise noted.
You barely have to move to win; it’s easy:

Look for sponsored prize winning posts that feature the official Blogtoberfest button shown to the side.
Leave a comment on that post. You enter the contest with your comment.
Be sure to check back with that post throughout the following week to see what the prize is and if you’re the lucky winner.

Participating Blogs are:

A Child Chosen
Babylune
Blog Fabulous
Career and Kids
Dating Dames
GenBetween
Inside …read more

The best news is that I’m back. I got mostly moved and am currently unpacking. So while I get back into the swing here’s some entertainment.
The MOST EXCITING NEWS… Is the great Family and Relationships Channel Blogtoberfest! Learn all the juicy detail AND see some of the amazing prizes up for grabs right smack here.
Next up is the news that my great pal Julie has taken over as the blogger at Play Library. Julie is the perfect person to keep this already awesome blog going strong so why not go show her some welcome love and while you’re there you …read more

Do you want a little publicity from the entire Family and Relationships Channel on b5media?
If you shouted “YES!” then this could be just what you need. Our lovely channel editor Gayla, wrote out all the nitty gritty details about how to get noticed on our channel by readers everywhere.
Here’s the 411 on Blogtoberfest:
“During the month of October, we’ll be hosting our first ever Family and Relationships Channel Blogtoberfest.
We’re planning to run this event for approximately two weeks during the month of October (or until the prizes run out). And during that two weeks, we’ll be giving away some amazing prizes.
We’ve …read more