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Happy Friday, my groovy green friends! Can you tell I’m already hoping for spring? This week was another busy one at Groovy Green Livin. Here are a few highlights:
Green Your Workout
Did you ever stop to think how your workout could have an impact on the environment? Well, it can. Thankfully there are several ways we can lessen our eco-impact, while keeping our workout routine intact. Click HERE [2] to read more.
How to Treat a Cold the Natural Way
Colds and flu run rampant this time of year. Noses are dripping, throats are hurting and coughs and sneezes can be heard in homes around the world. Thankfully there are a few simple tips that will ease your symptoms and help strengthen your immune system the natural way. Click HERE to read more.
Mom Talk Radio Show
I had the honor of joining host Maria Bailey on her Mom Talk Radio [3] show. During the show we talked about how to have an eco-friendly Valentine’s Day. We also hit some of my favorite topics: how to live a green and a non-toxic life. Click HERE to listen to the February 12, 2012 show. My piece is called ‘Moms Roundtable” and can be found near the end of the segment.
Tide: Get Cancer-Causing Chemicals Out of Laundry Detergent
If you haven’t heard, it turns out that Tide Free & Gentle® isn’t so gentle. A report recently released by Women’s Voices for Earth [4], Dirty Secrets: What’s Hiding in Your Cleaning Products? [5] found high levels of the cancer-causing chemical 1,4-dioxane in the detergent. 1,4-dioxane doesn’t appear on the product label or on the product website, so consumers have no way of knowing it’s even there.
With the help of Healthy Child Healthy World [6] and Women’s Voices for the Earth I put together a petition [7] asking Procter & Gamble (makers of Tide) to strip this harmful cancer-causing chemical out of Tide Free & Gentle®!
Lisa from Retro Housewife Goes Green and Stephanie from Good Girl Gone Green both shared posts on this petition. Jenn Savedge from The Green Parent just shared a post [8] on this too. Thank you Stephanie, Jenn and Lisa!
Last count we had over 600 signatures. If you haven’t already done so, please join in and SIGN THE PETITION [9]. Better yet, sign the petition and then share it with your friends!
Pin of the week on Pinterest
This pin [10] got a lot of action. It received likes and repins, too many to count. It just confirms my suspicion that we all have a new obsession with coconut oil [11]. The pin originated from Delicious Obsessions [12]and is called “52 Uses for Coconut Oil-The Simple, The Strange, and The Downright Odd!
This coming is a school vacation week for us so I will be spending more time with my family and writing less. I hope to get a few posts out, but we shall see!
Have a groovy green weekend. Do you have President’s Day off?
[Photo used under Creative Commons from D. Sharon Pruitt/Flickr]