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kiss (keep it simple silly): tip #12
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 29, 2011
The Environmental Working Group may have their dirty dozen shoppers guide to pesticides and now we have our “green dozen” – great tips from eco-savvy Canadian experts. So in the interests of keeping it simple here’s our last tip from Tanis Frame (aka MamaMaven): Parents are often overwhelmed trying to navigate through what is green [...]
the chicken and the egg: tip #11
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 28, 2011
Our next (and close to last) tip comes from Lindsay Coulter, aka David Suzuki’s Queen of Green, and it’s all about eggs. This struck a chord with me as my sister used to call free-range chickens “happy chickens” when we were young(er): Choose eggs from happy chickens Here’s a quick guide to navigating egg carton [...]
royal wedding, high tea and curly wurlies
Filed Under faces & places | April 27, 2011
Despite my British heritage (that’s why we use “mum” in our editorial over “mom” just so you know) I’m not into the upcoming royal wedding enough to actually get up early to watch it. But I do have a coterie of girlfriends who are on dress discussion alert for Friday. And when I stumbled across [...]
learn to read: tip #10
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 27, 2011
After yesterday’s tip from an enviro dad, today’s tip comes from a green mama. The Green Mama to be precise: Learn to read labels! You can save a bundle of money and lots of headaches (the figurative and literal kind) by learning to decipher the ingredients on the labels of your beauty care products. Luckily, [...]
doing good, rather than buying goods: tip #9
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 26, 2011
Earth Day may be over but we have a few more green tips from eco-savvy Canadian peeps up our sleeves to share, including this one from Eric Novak, aka Enviro Dad: As parents, we want our children to have the best in life. That is why it is important to teach our children about the [...]
tech tuesday: the wants
Filed Under tech tuesday | April 26, 2011
The unrelenting miserable weather we’ve been having of late – interspersed with the odd gorgeous day to remind us of what we’re missing – has me filled with the wants. The common theme around what I’m wanting has nothing to do with technology and everything to do with colour (and apparently the colour red) and [...]
keep learning: tip #8
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 22, 2011
We couldn’t not post one of our green tips on Earth Day itself. That would just be wrong. And it seemed like a good idea to include a tip that’s about educating yourself on the changes you want to make for your family, because Earth Day is one day, but the earth itself is here [...]
get your vote on: tip #7
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 20, 2011
We’re back with another green tip, this time from Rick Smith, father and the Executive Director of Environmental Defence that’s particularly timely as the election looms ever closer: Even though we’re all suffering a bit of election fatigue it’s important to vote, this year more than ever! In the federal election and in the fall [...]
tech tuesday: don’t flip out
Filed Under tech tuesday | April 19, 2011
So it was only a few years ago that we, and many others, were extolling the virtues of the Flip camera. I loved, and still love, our handy little Flip but it’s likely that my smart-phone-phobic husband loves it most – when the kids start doing something cute (which is incessantly of course!) I pull [...]
sponsored post: april is oral health month…smile!
Filed Under sponsored posts | April 18, 2011
Today’s sponsored post is from Dr. Shaireen Lalani. Dr. Lalani has been a practicing dentist for more than 14 years. A few years after graduation, she founded Yaletown Dentistry, one of the first boutique-styled clinics in Western Canada. She has since enjoyed a thriving practice in a field that allows her to be creative while [...]
