Live animals don’t belong in Easter baskets. As adorable as baby bunnies, chicks, and ducks may be, they aren’t great gifts. They require an intense level of care and have…
Category: Conscious Consumerism
Teaching Kids About Food and Plants: Grow Sprouts in a Jar
Teaching kids how to grow sprouts in a jar combines several wonderful lessons: It is a hands-on exploration of the life cycle of plants. It is a practice in patience…
Cheater Chai Tea Latte
Starbucks’ Chai Tea Latte is one of my favorite hot drinks (one of many). When the craving hits me at home I have a simple cheat for a mock Starbucks…
Sustainable Holiday Tips and Real vs Artificial Trees
This post has been featured as lead story on the HuffPost Green Holidays page. Bundled up tight and clutching mugs of hot chocolate, we wondered thoughtfully through the fragrant pine…
Inspiration of a New Detroiter
I suspect the reactions I received when telling people I was moving to Detroit were similar to those one might receive after announcing a plan to move to Yemen or…
Chocolate and Child Slavery 2013 Update
The prevalence of human trafficking, child slavery, and abusive labor practices in the cacao industry is surprisingly under-reported. With the average US citizen eating over 11lbs of chocolate (that’s about…
Online Summer Book Club and Blog Hop
What better way to keep the creativity flowing this summer than with an online book club / blog hop / reading group?? Reading is always an important part of my life,…
Make Your Own Homemade Lip Balms
Today is a very special treat: a guest post by the amazing Hilda Forss. Hilda Forss is a freelance graphic designer currently based in Sweden. In her spare time, she…
Struggles with Cheese and Motherhood: Dairy Cruelty
Do you remember seeing this heartwrenching story in the news?: “She was kept locked in a small closet and was repeatedly impregnated, only to have her babies torn from her just after birth,…
Sustainable Holidays: Wrapping Paper and Holiday Card Alternatives
Charlie Brown worried about the shallow consumerism of the holidays, but he never mentioned one of the most egregious side effects of that consumerism: massive holiday waste. Massive easily preventable…