Articles in the Go Lightly’s Green Challenge Category
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Doing Things Better Challenge #16: Stop Buying Poison!
[Dec 30, 09 by
I can’t tell you how amazed I am to see household cleaner commercials where the mom just finishes cleaning the kitchen and the whole family comes in sniffing up the fumes of the toxic products- breathing them deep into their bodies. Or the ones that show the mean nasty germs and the sweet vulnerable child that must be protected from them using….poison! It kills me (literally I am afraid).
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Doing Things Better Challenge # 15: Easy on the Wrapping
[Dec 17, 09 by
This holiday season say no to gift wrap services and buying wrapping paper, and get creative with your gift presentations. Use reusable bags, fabric from old clothes, paper from things you already have, newspaper, your kids’ artwork, leftover bubble wrap, foil….anything can be made into funky gift wrap!
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Doing Things Better Challenge # 14: Give Green (in the form of cash donations that is)
[Dec 17, 09 by
If you have kids, know kids, or are a kid, you may know that kids these days have a lot of stuff. And every year for their birthdays they get a lot more. My daughter would receive so many toys for her birthday that she wasn’t even able to play with them all. So we started a tradition of collecting donations for charity instead of gifts.
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Doing-Things-Better Challenge # 13: Trash the Trash Bags
[Nov 27, 09 by
Our last challenge was to shop with reusable bags. This is a terrific thing to do. But, it seems that the more people do this, the more sales of commercial trash bags go up. It seems many people used the plastic bags from the stores as trash bags. I know I did. But it doesn’t make sense to prevent plastic use somewhere, only to use it somewhere else.
