Posts under Tag: Shopping
Guest Post — Sunscreen and Cancer Protection: Is Cheapest Best?
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If you go to a pharmacy and peruse through the variety of sunscreens on the shelves, you may be surprised to find that the most effective ones are often the cheapest. Specialized creams tend to cater to particular customers who are either focused on how the product smells or feels on the skin with effectiveness being a secondary concern.

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Seasonal Cooking: Autumn

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.

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Establishing the Bag-Person Habit

A few weeks ago I did a post on ditching both paper and plastic bags to go reusable to which Matty, from Green Eggs & Planet, left this comment: Excellent post — I too am trying as hard as possible to get into the comprehensive habit of ALWAYS having a bag with me. Maybe a post about how to establish [...]

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Bag the Plastic AND the Paper – Go Reusable!

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 [...]

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Breathe Deeply without the Indoor Air Pollution

I read a fascinating article that stated: “In a study by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), an 800-cubic foot room (10 feet by 10 feet by 8 feet) contained pollution levels of approximately 1,808 micrograms of formaldehyde, 112 micrograms of xylene, and 67 micrograms of benzene. A single Boston fern can remove 1,800 micrograms of formaldehyde from the air [...]

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