From the monthly archives:

May 2008

Earthstone Bathroom Block: Eco-friendly Removal of Toilet Bowl Stains

May 31, 2008

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 [...]

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Ecobunga! Helps puts Some Green Back in Your Eco-Pocket

May 28, 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 [...]

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Chapter One, Organic Baby Clothes with a Purpose

May 27, 2008

Cute, huh? See below for free giveaway and discounts!

Recently, I was contacted by Chapter One’s public relations firm about featuring a story about their organic baby and toddler clothing line. At first glance, I thought I really don’t have babies or toddlers anymore (sigh…unfortunately) and I was not sure if my readers did either. Would [...]

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Ella Vickers Recycles Discarded Sails into Fashionable Bags

May 25, 2008

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, which [...]

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Go Green Expo: The Big Apple Hosts a Spectacular Green Expo

May 22, 2008

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 aisles, [...]

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Give Your Lawn a Compost Shot

May 20, 2008

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 [...]

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Divide the Ride: A Green Carpooling Answer to Parents’ Scheduling Woes

May 17, 2008

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 was [...]

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The Repurposed Home: Breathing New Life into Old Furniture & Accessories

May 15, 2008

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 way.
A [...]

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Green Mother’s Day by Spending only the Gift of Time.

May 12, 2008

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 [...]

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Think Green!, a Book Empowering Kids To Save the Planet

May 8, 2008

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 made.
Think [...]

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