Groovy Green Livin

There are so many fantastic cooking tips out there, far too many to include here. Over time I’ll keep adding more and more to the list. A few of my favorites have included how to clean stainless steel pots and pans and stainless steel appliances. Here are three more cooking tips that have really rocked my kitchen. Easy Peasy Egg Shell Remover If you use eggs to cook you know... read more

EVOL is love backwards. Did you see that right away when you looked at the logo? I have to admit that I didn’t. I’ve walked by the EVOL display hundreds of times in the frozen section at our local Whole Foods, but it never dawned on me that EVOL was love backwards. I needed my 12, 11 and 9 year old to tell me. Not cool. I love to cook,... read more

Glade brings back memories. Hasn’t it been around forever? I remember a spray can of Glade sitting on the back of most toilets when I was growing up. I can’t shake the heavy, flowery scent coming from a room after someone sprayed. I stopped using Glade, and all spray room fresheners well before the Natural Resources Defence Council (NRDC)—an international environmental organization—conducted a study called, “Clearing the Air:  Hidden Hazards of... read more

I joined Team ENERGY STAR and I hope you will too You’ve probably seen the blue ENERGY STAR logo on appliances and other energy efficient products. Here’s the scoop: Team ENERGY STAR is a exciting initiative from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, developed to engage and educate all of us about saving energy in our home. What I love most about the program is that Team ENERGY STAR empowers kids... read more

Welcome to the first edition (and maybe the last) of Green Report: Weekend Edition. I’m finally feeling almost caught up after vacation. For some reason the catch-up process took longer than usual. There are a few things that landed on my desk this week that I wanted to share. Perhaps a little weekend reading for those of you with some spare time. Over 5,000 Kids Products Contain Toxic Chemicals This... read more

We walked to school today. To some of you that may not sound like a big deal. Walking or biking to school may be a part of your daily routine. But for us it’s not a regular occurrence. Today was walk or bike to school day in our community, a day where the big yellow bus didn’t take our kids to school. Way back when someone had the not-so-brilliant idea to... read more

Reusable bags are taking over our kitchen and that’s a good thing. I’m talking about reusable snack and sandwich bags for packing our school lunch and they’re everywhere, filling drawers and cabinets waiting to be used. Did you know that children’s lunches create more than 3.5 billion pounds of garbage each year, which amounts to a crazy 18,760 pounds of trash annually from an average sized elementary school. That’s a lot of waste. My... read more