Caring for the Environment

Little Choices Can Make a Big Impact

Filed Under: Recycling, Reduce Plastic Consumption, Uncategorized Tagged With: eliminate plastic, grocery bag, reduce plastic, reduce reuse, save plastic

Sometimes little choices can make a big ripple effect. We all have habits, things that are just a part of…
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‘Tis the Season for Gift Making: Involving Your Kids this Christmas

Filed Under: Family Life, Recycling, Uncategorized Tagged With: budget gift giving, Christmas crafts, Christmas from home, Christmas gifts, Christmas on a budget, crafts this Christmas, gifts from kids, gifts on a budget, make your own Christmas gifts, make your own gifts, personalized gifts, personalized gifts from kids

Are you on a limited budget this holiday season? Maybe you’re thinking more of a minimalist lifestyle instead of a…
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Living a Natural Christmas

Filed Under: Caring for the Environment, Gretchen's Journey, Uncategorized Tagged With: "Green" Christmas, avoiding lead decorations, avoiding PVC Christmas trees, chemical free Christmas trees, choosing "green" Christmas items, choosing the right Christmas tree, Christmas lead poisoning, Christmas without chemicals, dangers of candles, lead candle wicks, making your own candles, natural Christmas, no more lead

Part of “Gretchen’s Journey…” Since I have started using and embracing both the Norwex products and lifestyle, I have longed…
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Pondering the Plastic Problem

Filed Under: Caring for the Environment, Outdoors, Recycling, Uncategorized Tagged With: enviro cloth, Norwex Pitch the Plastic Pack, out to lunch sandwich wrap, out to lunch snack bag, reduce plastic usage, reduce reuse recycle, reusable produce bags, saving the environment, silicone lids, stainless steel straws, window polishing cloth

When I was younger, plastics were the new thing. In fact, until the introduction of the 2-liter container, most soda…
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New Norwex Reusable Produce Bags

Filed Under: Caring for the Environment, Kitchens, Reduce Plastic Consumption, Uncategorized Tagged With: California bans plastic bags, California plastic ban, new Norwex, new Norwex products, Norwex California, Norwex produce bags, plastic bags, produce bags, reduce reuse recycle, reusable produce bags

The California legislature just became the first in the country to ban single-use plastic bags at grocery stores and large…
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Earth Day – Practical Ways to Celebrate All Year Long

Filed Under: Caring for the Environment, Recycling, Uncategorized Tagged With: creative recycling, earth day, kids earth day ideas, recycling

Can anything good come from an oil spill? Normally not. The 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill, however, compelled then U.S….
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