Tired of that horrible yellow ring in your bathroom toilet? You can scrub until the cows come home and it won’t go away. Every time, I read an eco-friendly article advising you not to flush your toilets to save water, with the saying “if it is yellow, let it mellow”, I want to scream at [...]
May 2008
Ecobunga! is the newest site started by green thrifty’ners, Jennifer Hastings and Karen Schiff, to help all us to go green by listing sales, free shipping, and promotions of green products. According to the Company, a 2007 GfK Roper Green Gauge® Study indicated that over 74% surveyed said that green products are too expensive. I [...]
Ella Vickers at the Go Green Expo displaying her recycled sailcloth bag line. (Check out the product discount below!) Who would have thought that old sails could be recycled to become fashionable and practical totes and bags? Well, in 1989 the idea was born when Ella Vickers, a first mate on the Columbia sailing yacht, [...]
In April, NYC was the host to Go Green Expo , which contained over 200 plus green vendors on three floors featuring organic chocolates, elephant poop paper, concentrated earth worm poop for your plants, vertical wind turbines, cars to everything in between. It was so popular that there was hardly any room to walk through the [...]
My adventures of creating a lush organic lawn are like a book with many chapters. Each year, I create several new chapters with my disasters and triumphs. The first chapter was entitled, “The Beginning,” when we tried to seed the lawn after finishing the construction of the house and the soil we used look more [...]
Does this sound familiar? Debbie has ballet at 4 pm, but Matthew has to be at soccer at the same time. Perhaps Debbie has to be picked up at the same time as Matthew but their two activities are least a half hour away from each other? Well, welcome to my world. Divide the Ride [...]
Isn’t this chair great? Special Discount Offered to Green Talk Readers! As the Editor of Green Talk, I receive endless emails from companies asking me to write about their products. Although you may think that this can be overwhelming, I am the fortunate one since I get to meet some amazingly passionate people along the [...]
Photo by Crysti. Editor’s Note: This was the post that I was trying to publish for Mother’s Day but my web host was having server issues with my database. I am still posting it as a belated Happy Mother’s Day. I am sure you have seen a voluminous amount of articles about what to get [...]
Think Green! Win this wonderful children’s book. See details below. We have made such a mess of this Planet with our overconsumption, wasteful habits, and lack of respect for the environment. In rectifying this situation, we must teach our young to be good stewards of the Earth so they don’t make the same mistakes we’ve [...]
