Late? Yes. Unfortunately, allergies have been running amok with all this rain at the Green Apartment so last week was awful and this week was catch-up. Oh the joy! But, I do have a fabulous carnival for you! dining & entertaining Mrs. Green presents Price vs principles – 6 tips for eating organic on a budget posted at Little Green [...]

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 [...]

When I first started really going green, I changed everything. Organic foods replaced conventionally grown. Baking soda and white vinegar replaced nearly every bottle of cleaning product in my arsenal. I started looking for second hand clothing stores and odd new uses for old items I had lying around.

But eating in season? That wasn’t something that crossed my mind. In fact, I realized I did not even know when most fruits and vegetables came into season! Yes, that is how out-of-touch with our world we city-dwellers and suburbanites have become.

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 [...]

Welcome to the third “Tips for Green Living” carnival. Looks like our little get-together is causing quite a stir! Let’s start with a celebration of what you are doing – reading! Rita Toews presents Read an ebook week 2008 posted at Life’s quite a ride. Looks like transportation has been on everyone’s mind lately. Vihar Sheth presents some new driving [...]

Welcome to the second edition of the new bi-monthly “Tips for Green Living” Carnival! Why go green at all? Jacob presents Ecological capitalism and consumer capitalism posted at Early Retirement Extreme, a post explaining why he thinks the world looks as it does, why he went green, and why others should go green as well. Great job, Jacob! Let me [...]