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A Year Ago at Green Your ApartmentA Year Ago at Green Your Apartment 2008 Fourth "Tips for Green Living" Carnival The fourth Tips for Green Living blog carnival.

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15th Carnival for Green Living15th Carnival for Green Living Welcome to the fifteenth edition of Tips for Green Living! We have so many good submissions, so let’s get started!. dining & entertaining Sam over at Best Cheap Weddings shares some...

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A Year Ago at Green Your ApartmentA Year Ago at Green Your Apartment 2008 Back to Basics: Recycle The final post in a series of three on the basic principles of green living.

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A Year Ago at Green Your ApartmentA Year Ago at Green Your Apartment 2008 Call to Action Will you help save the earth with only one hour of your time? www.EarthHour.org Back to Basics: Reduce The first in a series of three posts on the basic principles of green living. Back...

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What are Parabens, Exactly?What are Parabens, Exactly? Labeled as one of the new culprit for many a-modern defect is a group of preservatives called parabens. You may have seen the Breast Cancer Fund site's rundown of them or just saw a lotion bottle on the...

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Sustainable Product of the Week: G-Diapers

Category : Featured, For the Greenhorns, Health & Beauty

When I found out I was pregnant with my daughter two years ago, I made my green stance clear that I wanted to do cloth diapering. Little did I know the commotion this would cause. My mother, normally a calm and composed woman, looked at me with panic in her eyes.

“You want to WHAT?”

Immediately she set to discouraging me. “The endless laundry!” she exclaimed. I shrugged it off and said I’d be home with the baby anyway. “But the cost!” I explained I had calculated it out and figured it was actually cheaper, even including the laundry room quarters. Seeing that she was not going to talk her stubborn daughter out of this debacle, she emailed me a link to a website with the simple remark: “Use these instead.”

The link was to gDiapers. We used them religiously up until my husband lost his job and we were living on the kindness and charity of family members.

I love these things! To quote from their site:

For the last 40 years there have been but two choices in diapers. Cloth or disposable. That’s it. Now gDiapers offers a third option. 100% biodegradable*, flushable diapers. gDiapers puts waste where it belongs, in the toilet. Not the landfill.

gDiapers have no elemental chlorine, no perfumes, no smell, no garbage and no guilt. In fact, our gRefills are so gentle on the Earth you can even garden compost the wet ones in one compost cycle, approximately 50 – 150 days. Just think of the standing ovation you’ll get from the planet.

You wash the soft, adorable covers and compost, flush, or toss the soiled inserts. It’s that easy! My daughter loved them and couldn’t pull them off (those brilliant people put the Velcro in the back!) despite all her trying.

I can tell you right now that for the next kid in our household, gDiapers will the only way to go. Convenient and earth-friendly – that’s what I like to hear. Thank you Kimberley and Jason for this great product!

Tenth Tips for Green Living Carnival

Category : Featured, For the Greenhorns, In the News, Living Spaces, Patio & Garden

Many apologies to my fair readers: after an unexpected illness (aren’t they all?!) and the craziness of the holidays, things got out of hand. But I’m back, we’re here and the carnival is back on schedule!

for the greenhorns

Autumn Beck presents New to Cloth Diapers? Part 1 posted at All About Cloth Diapers. Such a great post, especially since there are so many options now!

Heaven forbid we be left out of the iPhone obsession: Gracie Turner presents 100 Best iPhone Apps for Students Going Green posted at Online Courses.org.

jerklogic presents a “Humorous article about littering and how it affects our environment and peace of mind” called Litterbugs, beware! posted at Jerklogic.

in the news

Mark Donovan presents Green Window Treatments Reduce Home Heating Bills posted at HomeAdditionPlus, saying, “Mark Donovan of www.HomeAdditionPlus.com discusses a new Green Window Treatement product that is Eco-Friendly, and that can reduce home heating bills by up to 35%.”

Let’s welcome back Katy Unitek with her post on Historic Energy Legislation posted at Boots On The Roof.

Angela Martin gives us 100 Exciting Lectures on All Things Green posted at Online Colleges.org, you know, if you can sneak it in between your holiday preparations!

living spaces

Ivan Gomez presents Raw Business Talk: COW! Simply Clean Beverly posted at Raw Business Talk, saying, “An excellent example of how you can wash your car with little to no water and absolutely no run off into the drainage systems.”

patio & garden

Here’s some money-saving (and green!) advice from The Backyard Grower on Saving Seed posted at Bobbie Whitehead.

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That concludes this edition of Tips for Green Living. Thank you all for your excellent submissions and I hope you found some useful info in this carnival. You can find a new edition posted every second and fourth Monday here at Green Your Apartment. Submit your blog article to the next edition of Tips for Green Living using our carnival submission form.

Go green and live well!

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