I recently became aware of one of this Country’s watchdog agency’s standards for ensuring the indoor environmental quality of their facilities. All, I could say was, “Holy Cow, they’re finally getting it” !!
The CDC, (Center for Disease Control & Prevention),  is a government-based agency that was founded in 1942. They are staffed with over 15,000 highly educated engineers, doctors, biologists, chemists, toxicologists and more. These are the folks that keep us up-to-date on local health issues up to biological threats to our population.
Apparently, this educated and informed agency has set very high standards …

I’m very honored to share with you about a new children’s book that was written by a fellow planet lover. It’s called Loui Saves The Earth and was written by Alexandra Gnoske of Recycle Me Organic Clothing.
I knew about Alexandra’s passion for the planet and her clothing business, but now she’s showing her talent in the writing of childrens books. Alexandra has taken her passion for nature and wildlife and turned it into an inspiring story with a simple message: children can make a difference for Planet Earth. As a …

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I’m going a new direction with my Christmas Card giving this year. This is a VERY hard change for me, because I LOVE to write up a Christmas letter with pictures and mail to EVERYONE! But, even using recycled products for this project, isn’t really helping my carbon footprint reduction
Therefore, I just signed up for a great online greeting card program that is done all via internet. The selection of virtual cards for Christmas, birthday’s, thank you, etc, is quite significant. Plus, they are animated and very unique. …

I realized after creating the title to this post, that it could be written two ways: ‘Waste’ versus ‘Waist’…LOL !! Since, this is my environmental focused blog, I do believe I’ll stick with the ‘household waste’ issues for now
According to the folks at RecycleWorks.org, household waste increases by more than 25% from Thanksgiving to New Years Day. There is added food waste, shopping bags, packaging, wrapping paper, etc.
Not only can you make easy choices to be less wasteful this Thanksgiving, they may even cost less than your usual …

Some would try to say that a if a product is “green”; then it is probably more expensive than other like products. And those same folks may also want to say, that if it’s cheap; then it probably doesn’t perform as well as other like products.
I’d like to dispel those arguments by telling you that you can purchase, non-toxic, natural, biodegradable products from Shaklee and they are in fact; GREEN, CHEAP & THEY WORK !!
Over at the Fabulessly Frugal website, is a breakdown of my favorite 2 cleaning products, and …

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Celebrating its 12th year, America Recycles Day (ARD), will be on November 15th. It’s a day set aside to better inform people about the importance of recycling and buying recycled products.
I am a staunch supporter of recycling and do a decent job at it personally, but I know that I can do much more. So, I’ve taken the ARD Pledge on the America Recycles Day website to try and ramp up my recycling habits.
It’s a No Brainer, that recycling keeps the landfills from filling up so quickly. But, in addition …