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From the monthly archives:
A Siggnificant tip
I was reading LACityMom the other day and I learned that Whole Foods is exchanging old “BPA leaking” Sigg bottles for brand spanking new ones- free of charge. Sound too good to be true? That is what I thought until I gathered up my family’s dented bottles, marched into the whole foods on Lincoln [...]
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LA’s Rainwater Harvesting Program
When I learned about the free rain barrels available to residents in my area at the Wise Water Use Expo in July, I didn’t expect to mine to cause so many people to make jokes about it. But in retrospect, I should have seen it coming. One friend offered to organize a [...]
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Today is not just any ordinary Tuesday. It is the autumnal equinox and “hug a tree” day.
Today Jerry and Marissa Rubin are staging the first-ever holiday dedicated to tree hugging and they are inviting us all to join them.
It’s really quite simple: walk outside, find yourself a nice tree, wrap your arms around it and [...]
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Creating Community & Fostering Independence
This week, my friend Melissa had a brilliant idea: “Let’s start a Walking School Bus!” she exclaimed after school one day. Inspired by the article “Why Can’t She Walk to School?” in last Sunday’s New York Times, Melissa proposed a simple plan where one parent “picks up” a small group of [...]
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O’Bon pencils and paper make homework fun
Every minute, an area of rainforest the size of 20 football fields combined is cut down, partly due to the creation of conventional wood pencils. After hearing this statistic, my daughter, Samara, insisted that I write a post about her “beautiful” Eco friendly pencils from O’Bon. They are made [...]
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