So I’ve been throwing around the term Reconomy a bit lately and most of you already do this but never had a term to put to what you are doing just like I did. You may have an a-ha moment once I explain. Reconomy is a recently emerging term due to the fact of the current economy and the state of the American family and as Americans we like to... ...read the full story
One of the items on my list for a greener life is to try to eat more organically and as hard as that is normally it’s even more difficult with a four year old going into the candy orgy that is Halloween. Now I’m not going to deny my son the joy of gathering his booty from the neighborhood but I have found a few candies that will help during... ...read the full story
When I first thought about becoming a green family I started thinking about what it meant to be green. I mean is it more than just recycling? For me and my family the answer was yes. I wanted more out of this green revolution than just simply feeling good about using recycled products and recycling the products that I buy. I wanted my family to... ...read the full story
So often I find myself just going through the motions of life. Doing things simply because that is how I’ve always done them or how my mom had done them in the past and never really questioning if that was really what was the best thing to do. It took a magazine article to really make me stop and think about how I was living and if how my family... ...read the full story
I think that Kermit said it best when he said “It’s not easy being green”. I grew up in a household that was made up of excessive consumers. We didn’t recycle, didn’t cook unless it came out of a box, and would have thought the world would end if we ran out of paper plates. Green was just another color in the crayon box for... ...read the full story
