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Posted: August 1, 2014 ...by Vanessa Zises Filley
Manda, better known now as The GreenMama, and I met twenty years ago on the first day of cross-country preseason when I was a freshman and she was a sophomore at Oberlin College. There was an instant energetic connection that has persisted from the very first moment. Was it because we were both devout vegans at...Read More »Read More
Posted: August 1, 2014 ...by Vanessa Zises Filley
After years of pondering the possibility we finally installed solar panels to heat our hot water yesterday. Of course I would like to have a photovoltaic roof and be off-grid running on strictly sustainable sources of power, but for the moment that is not our lot. Our town of Evanston, Il approved a three-year contract in...Read More »Read More
Posted: July 30, 2014 ...by Manda
Dry shampoo is just what it sounds like–dry–and you use it dry! In other words, it’s a new mother’s little helper. Don’t have time for a shower and the pony tail look isn’t cutting it–DIY dry shampoo is the trick. The issue with shampooing in general is that its literally addictive. The more you shampoo...Read More »Read More
Posted: July 28, 2014 ...by Cecelia
Is your water bottle killing you? First, came the news about the toxic baby bottles and, then, Nalgene and Camelbak and all of my once favorite sports bottle companies phased out their polycarbonate lines (all the while denying their products have anything wrong with them). Then, everyone came out with BPA-free plastics. And, while researching...Read More »Read More
Posted: July 24, 2014 ...by Manda
Cloth diapers. It might be the thing that the parents in my Green Parenting 101 class are most curious about and have the most MIS-information about. As one student asked looking at my display table, "That cute thing is a CLOTH diaper?" Indeed, cloth diapers aren't the ugly, bulky things held together by safety pins that many of us grew up with. »Read More
Posted: July 23, 2014 ...by Manda
Ingredients 1/2 cup or 115 grams organic cream cheese at room temperature (or try kefir or yoghurt cheese) 2-6 TBSP honey (to taste) 2-3 TBSP whole, organic yoghurt (if you have it) Instructions Blend by hand or with a hand mixer. I’ve even done it in a blender. Refrigerate (if needed) until it is a...Read More »Read More
Posted: July 23, 2014 ...by Manda
Carrot Cake 2 cups whole wheat pastry flour (I’ve also done this recipe with spelt flour.) 1 tsp baking powder 1 1/2 tsp baking soda 1 tsp salt 11/2 tsp cinnamon 1/2 tsp ginger 1/2 tsp cinnamon 3/4 cup melted coconut oil (or butter) 3/4 cup...Read More »Read More
Posted: July 21, 2014 ...by Manda
Background on the Issue The quality of air inside our homes can be many times worse (on average, 2 to 5 times worse, according to the EPA) than outside air. And because on average we spend 90% of our time indoors, most of that time in our homes, we are quite susceptible to the air...Read More »Read More
Posted: July 21, 2014 ...by Manda
How does a person write a book? There are as many answers to that as books, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t a lot to learn from looking at the writing process. Indeed, there is much to learn and share and thus I was thrilled to take part in the #MyWritingProcess blog tour. It’s...Read More »Read More
Posted: July 17, 2014 ...by Manda
BACKGROUND ON THE ISSUE Much of what is at stake with feeding baby goes back to the discussion on toxic plastics. Quite a fervor was caused when the group Environment California released a recent report entitled, “Toxic Baby Bottles” which showed that bisphenol-A (BPA) was leaching from baby bottles. And not just some baby bottles,...Read More »Read More
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