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 […]
Green Your Parents, a Kid Run Movement to Spur a Green Lifestyle.
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 […]
MilkMuny Eco-Fundraising. Get Paid to Collect Milk and Juice Cartons
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 […]
Back to School Brings Up Issues of Needed Conservation
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 […]
College Bound Green Guide. A Green Mom List.
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 […]
School Supplies are Environmentally Frustrating
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 […]
Make Back to School Shopping PVC free
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 […]
Green Your Teen to Change the World
How would you describe a teenager to someone not from this Earth? Disagreeable, know it all, self-centered, and moody? But at the same time, they can be equally passionate about what rocks their world. I know. I have two teenagers. Because of their unbridled spirit, they are prime candidates to save this Planet and influence […]
