I love Laptop lunches and wrote about the Company’s nifty lunch boxes for young and old alike when I just started Green Talk. When I wrote about the Company my bent was the amount of food wrap waste that we generate from our bagged lunches. In fact 67 pounds of garbage per kid according to [...]
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Welcome guest poster, Katy Farber, author of Why Teachers Quit. She also blogs at Non-Toxic Kids. This post is quite timely with the kids getting ready to go back to school. Did your child’s favorite teacher suddenly leave mid-year, or quit in the summer? Have you noticed the palpable stress levels of teachers and staff [...]
Photo by Fernando de Sousa. Here are the green links for this week! I have to say, the news get more interesting every week. In the links are articles ranging from the environmental impact of nuclear, introduction of new electric/hybrid cars to how LCD waste could prevent bacterial infections. What is this world going to [...]
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I received this email from my friend, Anastasia, about the movie, The Cartel, where education and politics spells money. As many of you might know, our governor slashed state funding from all of our schools. Our taxes in New Jersey are one of the highest in the country. The sad part is many schools despite [...]
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Kids Behave Brilliantly by Guest poster, Janelle Sorenson of Healthy Child, Healthy World. When I was young, I volunteered for various organizations and I participated in an academic extracurricular group known as the Future Problem Solvers of America, but that was the extent of my adolescent efforts at having a positive impact on the world. I don’t [...]
Milk does a Body Good, right? The containers? Well, that is a different story. According to the EPA, over 510,000 tons of milk cartons are generated in the US but only .5% of them are recycled. The rest sadly sit in a landfill. In my case, my town does not recycle milk or juice cartons. So, I can’t [...]
Photo by Heather Elias This last week, my children returned to school. I was careful to re-use as many items that I had and only buy what I needed opting for items that I could recycle at the end of their lives. I had it with the typical plastic coated binder that ended up in [...]
I write this post with a heavy heart since my oldest is college bound. With new found wings, he is definitely ready to soar. Will he stay green? But as a parent all I can hear is the following lyrics, “Leaving on a jet plane. Don’t know when I will be back again…” Except the [...]
In the next couple of weeks, our children will be heading back to another year of school. Think of the countless binders, pencil cases, crayons, pencils, and other paraphernalia we buy. But what I dread more than buying school supplies, is the end of the year when I have to dispose of all those beat [...]
In a couple of weeks, the kids will be returning to school. Make this year a PVC free school supplies year. Why? According to the Center for Health, Environment, and Justice, “Many children’s school supplies, such as lunchboxes, backpacks and binders, are often made out of PVC—a toxic plastic that is dangerous to our health [...]
