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plastic’s not fantastic: tip #6
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 18, 2011
Our next tip comes from Tracy Lydiatt, and is full of sensible strategies for using less plastic: Plastic is a man-made compound that nature has no way of processing or ‘digesting’ naturally. Because of this, it exists far beyond any single human lifespan, creating an ongoing legacy for future generations to manage: it exists in [...]
spring time to go sale-ing
Filed Under events | April 17, 2011
There are some serious sample sales and more going on around Vancouver right now so we simply had to share – even if they’re more about saving green than going green! By the way, if you love sample sales and you’re not a member of I Love Sample Sales yet, do check it out! Oh [...]
think big: tip #5
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 15, 2011
We’ve had ideas and tips on starting small but now we’ve got a tip on thinking big for going greener and saving green from Amber Strocel: I’ve had a long-time love affair with convenience food. It’s so, you know, convenient, especially when you’re feeding little kids. String cheese and toddler-sized tubs of yogurt were staples [...]
park it (at the playground)
Filed Under faces & places | April 14, 2011
We all probably recognize this firetruck from Stanley Park, but what about other parks and playgrounds for our tots? We’ve been asked a few times for our opinions of all the neighborhood parks with playgrounds about town, but even if we divvied up the list and the whole yoyo crew went about town from park [...]
start slow: tip #4
Filed Under eco friendly | April 13, 2011
The thought of “going green” can be intimidating to someone wanting to make healthier changes in their life. When starting out, it can seem extremely daunting because not knowing where to start is a task many struggle with. For those of us who are already on the path, we all had to start somewhere. My [...]
tech tuesday: read on
Filed Under tech tuesday, twitlitbookclub | April 12, 2011
Over the Christmas holidays – which seem so very, very long ago now – I got to test the Kobo ereader. Anyone who knows me knows I love reading. One of the things I was most worried about when having kids was never being able to read again (which I was told would be the [...]
king tut, funky tut
Filed Under events, faces & places | April 11, 2011
I really have to get past my love of bad ’70s music (this time, usually it’s the ’80s), especially in blog post titles but it seems you can grow out of the ’70s and ’80s but not the music…all of which is a long winded lead in to my review of Carousel Theatre’s newest (and [...]
take it outside: tip #3
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 9, 2011
Consider it destiny that this year Earth Day and Easter land just so to create a perfectly aligned Easter Earth Weekend. It’s a unique opportunity to step outdoors, put away the work and distractions, and witness the long-awaited rebirth of springtime nature. . .with your children! Everywhere, these days, seems to be teeming with budding [...]
commonly green: tip #2
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 7, 2011
You have common sense. Use it. For some reason, we are all conditioned to make choices by what food, clothing and products SEEM to be, and not what they really are. Given the flood of “healthy” products being introduced these days, and the marketing claims being used to promote them, you don’t want to buy [...]
earth, earth, baby: tip #1
Filed Under eco friendly, guest bloggers | April 6, 2011
I find myself riffing off ’80s songs so often it’s, well, sad. But my knock off Vanilla Ice rap title is all about Earth Day, which falls on April 22nd, which is also Good Friday. As the earth isn’t just something we should think about one day a year (we feel) we’ve rounded up some [...]
