As we enter the winter months and the holidays , keeping shoes out of your home can become a little more challenging. But the bene...

Kids benefit tremendously from helping in the kitchen. Kids who help in the kitchen are more likely to try healthy foods and parti...

Imagine a vacation where: You experience new adventures each day but sleep in your own beds each night. You can eat homemade, heal...

A few months ago, my husband returned from a business trip with a  partially eaten bag of trail mix purchased in the airport. It was pro...

Today's Easy Eco-tip:  Use bar soap instead of liquid soap. Give bars a chance. For several years now,  body wash has outst...

We love our reusable cloth gift bags . Compared to wrapping paper and paper gift bags, reusable bags are: Eco-friendlier! We create les...

Today's Easy Eco-tip: Use a pillowcase to wrap an especially large gift, rather than burn through half a roll of wrapping paper. Ke...

We purchased a home a little over a year ago. And with that home I inherited yet another batch of junk mail. Some days the mail box was j...

Today's Easy Eco-tip:  Next time you think of an item you need or would like to purchase, write it down on your "To Buy...

Perhaps the best way to begin (or get back on) a green path is with an easy step. Sometimes you just need an easy win to get some momen...

Healthy Child Healthy World , one of my favorite and most trusted sources, has just released an invaluable resource to help parents and...

About a year ago I switched to a shampoo bar . My husband too. It has great natural ingredients, is handmade by an Etsy shop, and requir...

About a month ago, my husband brought the bathtub outside on a hot day to help the sweaty baby cool off. We don't have a wading po...

It's the last day of our month about Water over at The Green Phone Booth. Click over to my post to learn an easy and economical wa...

Today's edition of Lazy and Cheap Ways to Be Green is about laundry. With today's labor saving appliances, laundry is a whole lot...

I've already completed one of my five climate change resolutions !

This week at the Green Phone Booth: No-sugar Strawberry Freezer Jam .  Freezer jam is about the easiest entry into food preservation, by t...

The results of my second, more systematic approach. Do you have some Duplo blocks in the garage that your kids have outgrown?  Or would...

Leftover smoothie + hot weather + ice cube tray = We only recently acquired this lovely silicone ice cube mold  so we can occasionally ha...

OJ Lids can be used for a dump-and-fill game, as pretend cookies, for spinning, or a memory game. I'm not that crafty, but I am ...