Sustainability

Becoming a Prepared Family

May 13, 2012

TweetFamily preparedness is very important to me. Living in a remote California mountain has really brought that to my attention. With one major earthquake, we could easily be cut off from the rest of the world. There are only 3 roads up the mountain, and all of them would likely be wiped out with a [...]

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Caffe Ibis Organic, Fair Trade, Bird Friendly Coffee {Mom ME Time Sponsor Spotlight}

April 20, 2012

TweetOne of my weaknesses is a good cup (or two) of coffee in the morning. I wrote an article a while back about how heavily coffee beans are sprayed with pesticides – and we’ve been drinking organic coffee ever since. However, since then I have become more concerned about supporting businesses that use fair trade [...]

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Organic, Fair Trade Chocolate from Theo Chocolate {Mom ME Time Sponsor Spotlight}

April 18, 2012

TweetI love chocolate. Milk chocolate has always been a favorite comfort food for me, but after going dairy free, I had to start looking for vegan chocolate so that I could continue to indulge on occasion. At Expo West, I stumbled upon a chocolate company I hadn’t heard of before – Theo Chocolate. They have [...]

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Learn How Wines are Going Green

April 17, 2012

TweetAs I delve deeper and deeper into living a green lifestyle, I naturally evaluate new areas of my life. One of the things I’m looking at now is wine. It’s pretty much the only alcoholic beverage I indulge in, so I want to try and be sure I’m supporting green companies. This infographic about Green [...]

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Feed, Nurture and Enhance Your Love of Gardening with Whitney Farms

April 16, 2012

TweetThis is a Sponsored post written by me on behalf of Whitney Farms for SocialSpark. All opinions are 100% mine. About Whitney Farms Introducing Whitney Farms®, a full line of 100% natural plant foods and soils with no additives, nothing artificial, just ingredients from the Earth, designed to give you big, beautiful flowers and veggies. Get [...]

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Grow Your Own Food with the Humble Seed Trio {#HonorEarth Sponsor Spotlight}

April 10, 2012

TweetOne thing I would love to see every family do is to grow more of their own food. We are so disconnected from the source of our food today, and many children have never even seen where real food comes from. Even if you live in an apartment, it is possible to grow at least [...]

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Get a Healthier Home and Garden with OSM {#HonorEarth Sponsor Spotlight}

April 9, 2012

TweetOSM is a company dedicated to providing the consumer with choices that will improve the health and wellbeing of themselves and the world. They achieve that by sharing information that educates and offering natural, safer and smarter alternatives. OSM is a parent company for a few different environmentally friendly brands. They were kind enough to [...]

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Reduce Your Impact with People Towels {#EarthDay Sponsor Spotlight}

April 8, 2012

TweetI have been eyeing People Towels on Reuseit for a while now. While we have cut down our paper towel use quite a bit over the last couple years, we still go through more than I would like. Every time I see stats about paper towels, like these ones from 1-800-Recycling, I cringe: Paper towels [...]

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Back to the Roots Mushroom Growing Kit {#HonorEarth Sponsor Spotlight}

April 6, 2012

TweetWhen I first heard about Back to the Roots, I was instantly hooked on the idea. I had no clue how to grow mushrooms on my own, so I was thrilled about the opportunity to receive a kit that would take all of the guesswork out of growing mushrooms. Basically, you just open the box, [...]

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Do You Save Seeds?

April 4, 2012

TweetSaving your own seeds is one of the easiest things you can do to live more sustainably. We save the seeds from all of our organic fruits and vegetables. It’s not worth the effort to harvest and save the seeds from non-organic fruits and vegetables, simply because they usually don’t sprout. It’s easiest to remove [...]

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