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How to Choose the Greenest Christmas Tree
Greening your Christmas Tree If you want to go even greener with your Christmas Tree purchase, there are a variety of other options available to you. 1. Buy a live, potted tree. My family has done this for years. Most pine trees can live for many years in a pot or you can replant the…
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The Green Mama & Baby Kits: Giving love in a basket
The Green Mama helps bring the best in natural, safe, effective products for mama and baby Sometimes, I am pretty earnest I believe in truth: in helping people find their individual path through the confusing world of parenting. To do that, I try to bring my talent for health research, my search for ecological answers,…
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Neitra Body Botanicals
“A beautiful, safe, healthy product with options for baby, teens, mama, papa, and even the dog.”
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Mama To Mama: The Minimalist Diaper Bag
The new year is a time for resolution and transformation. And the middle of January is a time for giving up on all your goals and resolutions…. I often find this true for myself, unless my particular resolution is actually making my days easier and more enjoyable. Welcome to my only resolution that has truly…
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Buddings Flexible Childcare: A New Approach to an Old Problem
It didn’t take long after I moved to Vancouver to start hearing about all of the issues parents have with childcare here. There isn’t enough of it, it is too expensive, and there is little diversity of options.
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Boring playgrounds are unsafe says New York Times
The New York Times warns that your child’s playground might be boring them to death (or at least into a phobia).
It’s summer time and parents everywhere are crowding onto playgrounds with their children. Me included. And I am shocked at just how boring they have gotten. Gone are the days when playgrounds were thrilling places: climbing to the top of a huge jungle gym, teetering 5 feet off the ground and screaming at my little brother not to drop me, or hurdling around on a tire swing until getting sick.
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Linda Solomon's 5 tips for walking to school with your kid
In this guest blog, Linda Solomon of the Vancouver Observer discusses how to make walking to school fun for kids.
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Notes from Vancouver: Earth Hour just in the attitude?
The results are in: Earth Hour was a success—mostly. As I have already mentioned, our family has been walking around gloating about our 85% reduction during Earth Hour. (We know this because we are taking part in a real-time energy-use monitoring pilot with Pulse Energy.)
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