Category Archives: Green Living
Summer Challenge: Foregoing the Grocery
Our pre-garden planning is in full swing at the Monkey Butt household. Our tomato plants have been growing tall under our grow lights. The garden beds are being readied and the seeds have been selected. All we are waiting for … Continue reading
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Ten Reasons to Love Dandelions
It is that time of year again – even the best kept lawns are sporting hundreds of sunny little spots, much to the great annoyance of the Type-A lawn perfectionists. Fortunately, I’m not one of them: I love dandelions. Well, … Continue reading
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Conspicuous Conservationism
******* Welcome to the Earth Day Blog Carnival This post is part of the 2012 Earth Day Blog Carnival hosted by Child of the Nature Isle and Monkey Butt Junction. Each participant has shared their practices and insights of earth … Continue reading
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Call For Submissions: The 2012 Earth Day Blog Carnival
Greetings to all Eco/Green/Earthy/Natural/Crunchy/Planetary Parents, Families and People! Our Earth Day Blog Carnival last year was such a wonderful success that we have decided to make it an annual event! We invite you to participate in the 2012 Earth Day … Continue reading
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The Crunchy Confession Booth is Now Open
There are lots of great reasons to go green – it is good for the environment, it can be economical, it lets you wear the “crunchy” label with some pride. One downside is that we tend to give ourselves a … Continue reading
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Renewing Green Passions in the New Year
TOP CODE Welcome to the first edition of the Authentic Parenting Blog Carnival, hosted by Authentic Parenting and Mudpiemama! In the month of January, we start afresh, a new year, new ideas. Hence, our participants have looked into the topic … Continue reading
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The Terrible Danger of Commercial Hair Dyes
In 1996 I opened a box of Clairol hair dye – a gorgeous shiny black – and proceeded to color my long brown hair as I had previously done for the past several years. Except that time, it was different. … Continue reading
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And the winner is…
Congratulations to Jenny, the winner of the bumGenius Freetime diaper courtesy of Dearest Diapers! She commented “I am a soon to be cloth diapering mommy (new arrival expected the end of April!).” Congratulations on your new arrival, and on winning … Continue reading
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Giveaway: bumGenius Freetime Diaper (with Dearest Diapers)
Cotton Babies has announced a brand new, all-in-one bumGenius diaper: the Freetime. The Freetime is designed to be bumGenius’s simplest diaper yet: with its no-stuff, semi-attached stay-dry inserts and no additional cover required, cloth diapering just doesn’t get much simpler. … Continue reading
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Twelve for 2012
Last year I did a post called 11 for 2011 – it was a list of 11 things that I wanted to accomplish in the new year. While I didn’t meet all of my goals, I kept close to quite … Continue reading
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