Eco-friendly

I’m Part of the Green Sisterhood! Three Reasons Why YOU Should Care

Posted by HealthfulMama on Mar 17, 2013 in Going Green, Thoughts to Action | 4 comments

So, Healthful Mama (and me, Gretchen) is now a part of the Green Sisterhood Network. What does this mean? Why should YOU care? Lemme break it down for ya: 1. Green Sisterhood is about Being Green which means that this site is now joined with others which have the same mission: to improve our earth, to improve our health, and to make some CHANGE. The mission of Green Sisterhood is “to make safe, healthy and sustainable living easier, to help you be selective in choosing products that will keep your family healthy, and to work together to be positive and support each other to make...

Got to Have Kaia Now!

Posted by HealthfulMama on Feb 6, 2012 in Going Green | 0 comments

I’m so excited to announce the newest edition of Kaia Magazine. A whopping 5,000 people enjoyed the gift guide issue in December, and we were just getting started. The February issue comes out today, and it’s chock full of green tips, in-depth articles, and entertaining anecdotes. Kaia is a different kind of sustainable-living mag: it covers everything from healthy recipes and gardening tips to eco-friendly sex toys (yes, they exist!) and the subject of whether weed should be legalized. I’m so proud to be a part of Kaia’s creation, and I hope you’ll check out...

I’m Judging Your Greenness

Posted by HealthfulMama on Sep 19, 2011 in Going Green | 3 comments

The hardest thing for me to understand in the realm of “eco-friendliness” is that not all eco-friendly persons are interested in the type of eating and living I discuss on this blog. I generally think of cloth-diapering folk as eco-warriors. And I think of eco-warriors as veg, gluten-free types committed to organic farming. But this is also not the case. I know many cloth diaperers who aren’t interested in recycling; I also know many recycling/composting/hemp-wearing individuals who don’t cloth diaper. I used to have a problem with this, admittedly. My crunchy, patchouli-scented,...

Change One (More) Thing Challenge

Posted by HealthfulMama on Sep 19, 2011 in Going Green | 3 comments

CHANGE ONE (More) THING CHALLENGE Long ago, I created a list of the eco-sins we were committing that I wanted to change. This helped reign in my crazy tendency to get everything done at once. I revisited the list a year later and realized we had accomplished many of the goals on the list. Here’s my current eco-sins-list of things we have/things we do that I’d like to see improved: -Gas guzzling Jeep Liberty SUV (I wish we could change this soon, but we’ll likely have it forever…) -Disposable razor blades (Such a waste of plastic!) -Electronics constantly plugged in (We need...