Comments on: Win a Children’s Book — Think Green!

By: Michelle Rosborough

Michelle Rosborough — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 17:33:24 +0000

Shop at garage sales & thrift stores

By: Julie

Julie — Fri, 20 Jun 2008 18:33:47 +0000

Great book! My daughter’s and mine favorite way of keeping the earth green is we try to buy our goods used. We buy used DVDs, toys and books from garage sales, and clothes from a used children’s clothing store. We also make homemade playdough and finger paints. All of these practices save us money and we are not buying these goods new. We also eat vegetarian at home, since the production of meat creates so much pollution. We are also moving from the suburbs to downtown, where we will be able to walk everywhere! We are so excited about the last one!

By: Belinda A.

Belinda A. — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:30:17 +0000

We no longer buy crates of bottled water. Now, we have reusable water bottles and we just fill ‘em up and keep them in the door of the fridge – so handy and a much smarter thing to do – I wish we’d started doing this ages ago.

By: Laura

Laura — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 02:02:55 +0000

Great looking book. I’d love to share this with my two little book lovers! There are so many ‘little’ things we could all be doing to help our earth. Top two on our list:
Walk more – good for your body and the earth
Use less – not just less paper, but just consume less overall

By: Jennifer Varney

Jennifer Varney — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 23:08:27 +0000

There are lots of ways to for families to stay green together and have fun while doing it. One of my favorite projects is making trash art. Taking what seams useless and turning it into something beautiful. Each year my sister and I enter a piece of trash/recycled art into the contest held by our local community college. The kids love helping and it teaches them that just about anything can be reused again and transformed into something beautiful.
Another great way for families to stay green is to turn old clothing into blankets! I take all my kids old clothing and cut out patches of them and sow them into baby blankets as gifts for other little ones. Infants love the different textures created by the clothing.
We have also chosen to use green friendly products in our home. House hold cleaners that are friendly to the environment are also much easier on my little ones lungs. When my oldest wants to help with the household chores I don’t have to be worried she’s inhaling a dangerous amount of chemicals any more, therefore I can let her help and it really makes her feel like a big girl.

By: Molly

Molly — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 16:13:42 +0000

One change we’ve made is to stop using chemical cleaners to clean the kitchen etc. and use good old vinegar for most things instead. (Baking soda also comes in handy!)

By: Cindi

Cindi — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 02:07:40 +0000

Hello! At the beginning of this year, I made a promise that my family would become more conscious of the earth and environment. We have started out with simple ideas. We have turned down the hot water heater temperature and take much shorter showers. If we have quick and near errands to run, we use our bicycles as transportation. We had already been turning the thermostat in our home up in the summer and down in the winter! One other thing, is that we no longer use water in plastic bottles. I love this book drawing. Please enter my name in the contest. Thanks very much…..Cindi

By: Elizabeth M.

Elizabeth M. — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:53:00 +0000

We stopped using throwaway plastic water bottles–we use refillable ones now. We recycle everything possible. We use a clothesline in place of the dryer, our thermostat is programmable to save energy when we’re sleeping and away from home, and we are careful to conserve energy and water. We have re-usable bags for shopping and since we live really close to pretty much every type of business we need to access, we walk or bike as much as possible.

By: Renee

Renee — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 12:52:25 +0000

What a great contest!Well,we try to do lots of things,but as I always say,we can do more.As of right now,this is how we help our great planet…we bring paper to our elementary school where it gets recycled & the school gets so much money per ton ( I think it’s by the ton),we bring back pop cans/bottles to the store to get recycled & to get our $ back,of course,we use cereal boxes for crafts,when I make a small purchase at the store,we just hold it,no need for bags,when I do get bags,I get paper bags so I can fill it up with paper to bring to the school,all plastic bags we have collected are used for trash…we even use the wrapper that the big packs of toilet paper,paper towels come in as trash bags if we open one end carefully,we have joined freecycle to get things we really wanted or needed,we check out books from the library so we don’t fill our house with more clutter.I sometimes just dust my house with a nice clean rag instead of those harmful chemicals.Ok,well,I think I better stop before we take us the whole site. Renee

By: Shontell

Shontell — Mon, 16 Jun 2008 05:57:18 +0000

I have always been an earth loving girl, but after my Environmental Ethics class ended about three months ago, I realized I was more talk than action. My whole family is getting in on GREEN with recycling, reusing, and reducing as much as possible. We have five little kids and they don’t leave the lake or park without cleaning up someone else’s mess. Our most recent purchase was our stash of reusabe grocery bags. Today I researched homemade, earth friendly home cleansers, and we are frequenting the farmer’s markets more and the grocery store less. This not only gives us great organic veggies and fruits, but supports our local farmers as well.