holidays

Greener Holidays: Sage Advice to Last You Through Gift Returns

by Anna@Green Talk on December 22, 2011

For almost five years, I have been dispensing green advice.  A regular Green Dear Abby.   It just seem like yesterday that I started Green Talk.   But, five years is a lifetime when it comes to web content.  During those years, information and company change.  As I updated my articles, I realize my old [...]

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October 31 is the day of candy overload.   I don’t know about your kids, but mine guard their stash better than Fort Knox. I kid you not.  Sure they get their usual couple of pieces the night of Halloween, but after that I limit their candy intake.  (So, I think.  Check out the nerds [...]

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Nowadays, I am finding that I am receiving quite more email  invitations than I use to.  However, when it comes to the “big day events” such as weddings and bar mitzvahs, paper seems to be rule of thumb.  With such great online invitation websites such as Pingg and Paperless Posts,  you can have your cake [...]

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What does 2011 look like for you? Are you finding that your old patterns are no longer working for you?  Struggling to redefine your life?  Are you feed up with wearing pants with elastic (metaphorically or literally) because you don’t have time to make yourself the most important person in your life? Sure, elastic pants are [...]

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How would you like a gift wrap that makes your gift the fairest of them all?  And to boot, makes Kermit one happy frog? Give up?  No,  Miss Piggy is not the answer.   Fabric gift wraps and bags by Fabricwrapper!  Read on to discover why you will love Fabricwrapper as much as I do, and [...]

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If I could rewrite the lyrics of “O Christmas Tree,” to incorporate a greener theme, I would sing the first verse of the song as follows: O, Christmas tree, O Christmas Tree, I wish that buying a green one is what people could see. O Christmas tree, O Christmas Tree, Perhaps they could replant, rent, [...]

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I recently guest posted over on Maria’s Farm Country Kitchen about how to green your wrapping paper options.  Why?   With Over 4 million tons of wrapping paper and shopping bags used during the holidays along with ribbons, bows, tissue paper, and cardboard box, I wasn’t surprised to learn Americans throw away 25% more trash [...]

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Shop Nothing: Get Your Retail Fix With No Harm to the Planet.

by Anna@Green Talk on November 30, 2010

Do you buy to buy? Think about it.  If you see something you like, do you stop and say, well I really don’t need it even though you can afford it?  Don’t feel bad. Lots of people feel the same way especially if you are spending it for others.  So, much that despite high unemployment [...]

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Happy Thanksgiving! What Are You Thankful For?

by Anna@Green Talk on November 25, 2010

My friend, Burton, sent this to me in an email a couple days before Thanksgiving. I reprinted it because no matter how lousy your year has been, if you can say you are thankful for any of the below, you are blessed. Life stuck in the Minutia? Sometimes, we get so caught up in our [...]

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Thinking about how you are sooo bored with playing the Monster Mash on Halloween? Your kids are complaining your Halloween music is so lame?  Well, it is not too late to fix this.  Help is here with Count Crow’s magic mix of downloadable music which will sure to make you laugh. For the month of [...]

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