David Duchovny Gets Green With Extreme Home Makeover

Everytime I watch Extreme Home Makeover I sob. The show is so darn touching. Recently the show helped Philip Stott and his wife Joey who live on an organic farm with their three children. In 2004 Joey was diagnoised with acute myeloid leukemia causing the family to spend all its money to pay for Joey’s successful bone marrow transplant. In the midst of dealing with that hardship, more drama struck when their home burst into flames. Since then, the family of five has been living in a one-bedroom

Turning back-to-school lunches green

This post is part of the Green Moms Carnival , which, this month, is focusing on greening up your back-to-school routine. People often think “going green” means you have to spend a lot of money. However, it doesn’t have to be that way. Making school (or even work) lunches green doesn’t require a huge outlay of cash. In fact, by packing eco-friendly lunches, you are more likely to save money, your children are more likely to eat healthier foods, and you are taking care of the earth by produci

Gift giving CAN be eco-friendly!

I recently had occasion to purchase a wedding shower gift for our neighbor’s daughter. Many of us have been there… that occasion where we labor over 12 pages of “wishes” and try to find something that you honestly feel wasn’t a “whim wish” and an item that won’t actually find itself shoved in a corner closet after the bride realizes it wasn’t really something she needed. While we certainly can’t control what the bride selected, we can certainly choose how to spend our money. And as I poured

Save money by planting your own vegetable garden (Issaquah Press)

Can planting a veggie patch really save you money? Government agencies and gardening organizations say yes. Every $100 spent on vegetable gardening yields $1,000 to $1,700 worth of produce, the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimates. You’ll get a half-pound of edibles from every square foot of ground devoted to backyard crops, according to the National Gardening Association. [...]