Welcome to the New Year, oh Internet! We are back and have some great stuff for you to browse.
dining & entertaining
Returning blogger TaraG convinces us with 5 Reasons To Buy Organic Foods over at Go Green Street. Great stuff, TaraG!
Jourdan Henderson gives us ways to Green your morning coffee! posted at Green Justice. I heart coffee and I totally agree with Jourdan’s recommendations.
health & beauty
Jourdan Henderson comes with a second submission, asking us Do you have a fruit tree? posted at Green Justice. Really great idea on putting your excess …

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 …

From my blog to yours and my family to yours, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We will be returning to our “regularly scheduled programming” come January 2nd.
Until then, check out our archives from the list below!
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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 …

Among the Green Community, there are great proponents of organic, fair-trade, locally grown produce. But the reality is not everyone can afford to pay the organic prices at the large-chain grocery markets, not to mention the fair-trade mark-ups.
First let’s set up the order of importance in purchasing these items.

Local always surpasses organic -there’s less tax on the environment as a whole. Plus with local foods, most of them are from smaller farms that don’t douse their produce with ridiculous amounts of chemicals so a good washing in a plant-based produce …

For this post, I will be forgoing the typical recommendations for the stages of the environmentally-conscious out there because I just want to share a great find with you.
I have no idea what brought me to ReusableBags.com but I LOVE LOVE LOVE them!
For example, I hate that I haven’t had many options to get rid of those horrible produce bags that even “health food” chains are using! What to do?
How about an organic netted cotton produce sack for a whopping $4? Brilliant!

Shopping bags are also an issue. In general you …

Being kind to the environment (and your wallet!) is so much easier than you think, especially if you are in an apartment. Why especially? You are already living in a smaller space with less stuff and by definition should be consuming less energy than the person who lives in a house (think of the heating bill, which is a great example). Congratulations! Bet you didn’t even know living in an apartment could be an environmentally-friendly start, did you?
For my first tip, I’m going to recommend you start the New Year …

Welcome to Green Your Apartment. Here, I will be sharing tips on how to open up your mind and your home to the ideas of living well while you minimize your ecological footprint.
But why?
Unless you have been living in a cave for the past decade (which is quite a ecologically sound lifestyle!), you already know the reasons why. Global warming. Overpopulation. Sustainability. A better future for our kids and their kids and all the future generations of this world.
But what I want to prove to you is being an ecologically-conscientious …