Green shopping with tweens
You can read the full article here, joint effort by myself and my green trendy diva daughter showing both sides of green shopping.
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Act of Kindness
View, today’s Act of Kindness and be moved 
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Green Giveaway Wednesday: Wildtree Natural Grapeseed Oil
Today’s Green Giveaway is a bottle of Wildtree Natural Grapeseed Oil, donated by Eula DeMasi
Grapeseed Oil is made from grape seeds after wine production. It is therefore environmentally sound and requires no new farmland or water to produce. Versatile, delicious and good for you, grapeseed oil allows the pure flavor of fresh food to come through. Its delicate flavor and body make it perfect for sautéing, baking or frying. Try it in salad dressings, on pasta or hard breads, or use as marinades or bastes for the grill.
Visit YourKitchenMagician.com to learn more about the great products and Eula.
To enter the contest:
Between today and Tuesday Sept 9th, post a comment here about how you’re going to use the Natural Grapeseed Oil in your food preparations. One random winner will be chosen and Eula will ship your Natural Grapeseed Oil directly to you.
Enjoy!
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Product donations needed for Green Giveaway Wednesday’s
If anyone wants to donate their products (eco friendly, natural, green) for a weekly green give away, let me know.
It’ll be featured on here weekly and promoted on forums, twitter, FB, myspace and other places too.
email me if interested.
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Green Giveaway Wednesday’s
Starting tomorrow, Wed. 9/3/08 we’ll be giving away a green, eco friendly item here every Wednesday.
It’ll be simple, stop by here and follow the directions on the Green Giveaway posts and you may be the lucky winner.
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Eco Tuesday: Buy in bulk
When shopping, buying in bulk saves in multiple ways.
Cuts down on packaging since there’s one bulk package instead of multiple individually packaged items. This means you’re using less paper, cardboard, plastic and all the other over done packaging materials.
You drive back and forth to the store less often so you save there too.
Not to mention, buying bulk allows you to usually save money as well.
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Win a $40 gift certificate from Affordable Mineral Makeup™
If you’ve wanted to try mineral makeup, you could win a $40 gc from Affordable Mineral Makeup™. We’ve teamed up with TheGreenParent.com to sponsor an eco beautiful contest.
The contest ends today, so
enter NOW here!
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Every Day Act Of Kindness
www.EverydayActOfKindness.com :: experience the joy in being kind, helping others or receiving help if you need it.
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Wordless Monday: Charleston, SC
Taken by me June, 2006 near Battery Park in Charleston, SC
Note: There’s even a recycling can there
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Fast food breakfast: convenient & time saving or not?
Every morning I drive by a local Dunkin Donut (it’s next to the gym) and am always dumbfounded how long the drive thru line is at 8:45 a.m.
I decided to time a vehicle to see how long they really waited in the line before getting their food.
17 mins 43 seconds, that’s how long!
Now, if you ask someone who goes there odds are they’ll say they go through the drive thru to “save time”. How is sitting in your car, with it running nonetheless for that long “saving time”? Wouldn’t it have been faster to just eat at home and then leave to drive straight to work? Or, here’s a novel thought, get up earlier in the morning! Oh but wait, due to all the donuts and funky chemical food they’ve eaten, they’re not in the mood to get up earlier because of their lifestyle their health isn’t the greatest which could affect their sleep and make it harder to get up in the morning.
I know it’d save on your calories most likely, seeing how an average Dunkin Donut glazed donut is 180 calories. Note the break down, of fat, sugar, and sodium and nothing of nutritional value. Then we have their coffee w/cream & sugar which is only 90 calories but nothing of real nutritional value. So, for the average coffee & donut they’re using up about 270 calories, all of which are empty.
Now, if the person had eaten at home, they could’ve had something that was actually good for them. Let’s use blueberries for our example. One cup would be about 81 calories and full of antioxidants and vitamins & minerals. Plus how long does it take to prepare a cup of blueberries? 20 seconds? or over 17 minutes?
A smoothie, protein bar, bowl of cereal would all be better nutritionally as well as time spent to prepare and eat compared to the Dunkin Donut drive through.
Shall I even touch on the idling cars in the drive thru? You do the math, look at the below information and note the above time that one person sat in line. Then figure how many people do eat on way to work, lunch, dinner, all via fast food drive thru’s.
It’s shameful!
According to CarbonRally.com:
On average, each American car is idled 5 to 10 minutes per day. It is estimated that those cars idle enough each day to burn an additional 3.8 million gallons of gasoline. That’s right — 3.8 million gallons each day. That means that useless idling is responsible for Americans releasing an extra 40,000 tons of CO2 into the atmosphere each day or 13 million tons of CO2 per year.
According to IdealBite: Idling 15 min per weekday can cost you up to $100 in wasted gas over the course of a year.
Which is probably more now that gas prices have gone up.
So, can someone please explain to me how it’s more convenient and time saving to sit in a drive thru rather than eat at home. Here’s an idea for those who go through drive thru’s on way to work…
get up earlier than you normally do (even if it’s only 10 minutes)
make yourself a healthy quick breakfast at home
then leisurely leave for work
You’ll ultimately save:
time
calories
your health
money
gas
the environment
possibly save yourself from having an accident since you won’t be driving and eating/drinking
Give it a try so people like me won’t feel compelled to time you at the drive thru from the gym window and come home later to blog about it.
UPDATE!!!!
My bud Dave Conrey, posted about this and more…Guilt Forces A Hungry Man Indoors, it’s a must read and goes along with this existing post
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