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ECOparenting: ECOnomical. ECOlogical.

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What’s In My Green Bathroom?

Visit our sponsor! I’ve always been a bit of an eco-warrior. In elementary school I was the kid picking up beer cans full of slugs and rinsing them out in my driveway so I could bring them back for the deposit. In high school I became a vegetarian. As a high school teacher, I was […]

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Organiponic: Farm to Table Just Got a Whole Lot More Local

My husband and I have a dream of self-sufficiency. One day, we want to sit on our porch swing with our miniature donkey and gaze upon our vegetable patch, our grape vines, our apple orchard, our chicken coop and our barn full of rescued cats hanging out with our cows and think: “We never need […]

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Reusable Alternatives to Wrapping Paper

Wrapping paper. The epitome of our single-use, throwaway culture. It is designed to be immediately discarded. Unlike take-out cutlery, plates and cups or paper towels and disposable diapers—items that at least help us accomplish vital tasks—wrapping paper is just for show. But trust me, I know wrapping paper is joyful! It can be fun to […]

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How Reusable Panty Liners Are Still Helping Me Save After 3 Years

I realize it’s kind of a bizarre milestone to be celebrating, but what can I say? I’m excited and proud to announce that it has been almost exactly three years since I banished disposable panty liners from my bathroom cupboard and switched to reusable panty liners. Because I am blessed with excessive leukorrhea (excessive vaginal […]

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This is the Last Straw: Ideas On How to Say Goodbye to Disposable Straws

This post contains affiliate links. If you think the idea of boycotting disposable straws is stupid, that’s okay. You do you. This Earth Day, however, I’m finally making good on a resolution I’ve been putting off for years. I’m already using washable menstrual products, cloth diapers, family cloth (yes, that’s washable toilet paper) and handkerchiefs. I’ve had […]

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All About FlipSize Canada

While I did receive compensation for this post, I am a FlipSize customer, too! All opinions remain my own. There are many things that I do because they are better for the environment, despite taking more effort. That’s basically the trade off for convenience products: they’re easier, but they’re harder on the earth. Some parents […]

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Setting Up for Fire Safety with First Alert

I received First Alert products for my home in exchange for this post. All confessions of ignorance remain my own. When I was a kid, I thought that when I grew up, I’d get to change my name. See, I didn’t know any adults named “Lindsay,” so I just figured that “Lindsay” was my kid […]

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Rocky Mountain Essentials: Essentially Awesome {+ coupon code}

I received product samples and compensation for this review. All opinions and confessions of foot odour remain my own. If you read my blog posts regularly, then you can probably list off the criteria I have for choosing body care products better than my husband can remember whether I take milk or cream in my […]

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Facing the Facts: Four Ingredients that Never Touch My Face #GMCBeauty

This is post is sponsored by Pure+simple as part of the #GMCBeauty campaign. Sometimes I eat at McDonalds. It turns out I’m fussier about what I put on my skin than what I put in my mouth. I’m not proud of it, folks! It’s been easier to ditch the harmful ingredients in my skincare products than […]

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Let’s Look at October Through GREEN-Coloured Glasses! #GMCBeauty

October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, typically associated with the Pink Ribbon Campaign. As you know, I’m all about Greening Your Routine: overhauling women’s beauty regimens so that our arsenal of toiletries doesn’t contain toxic ingredients, some of which have been proven as carcinogenic.  I’m joining forces with the Green Moms Collective (GMC) to help them […]

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Interview With a Herbalist

I received no compensation for this post, and conducted the interview out of pure curiosity! I will soon be publishing a review of some body care products from Honey Pot Herbals, owned by Registered Herbalist, Joanne Kewageshig. Since I didn’t know what a Herbalist really was, I figured I couldn’t be the only one, right?! So […]

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Microbeads… Major Problem

There was this ad on TV when I was a teenager, I think it was for Clean & Clear-brand face wash. A pair of besties were standing in front of the bathroom mirror, washing their faces with a new product featuring “smooth, round, microscrubbers.” Yes, I remember the exact line. Hey- the ad probably played during […]

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Greenify Your Teen’s Routine, And Yours!

I received the products featured in review free of charge. This post contains affiliate links. Things just got real, folks. I’ve been planning this post for a couple of months, and its relevance has become even more pronounced now that I know I will be having a daughter of my own. Leafing through a women’s […]

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Dry Shampoo for Dark Hair

This post contains affiliate links. I don’t like to wash my hair. Don’t get me wrong: I do bathe. I just hate washing my hair. Washing my hair means I have to dry it, and I’m lazy. I hate going to bed with wet hair, and I am very much an evening bather rather than […]

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5 Household Products to Ditch Today

Going green can seem daunting. You learn about the toxins hiding just under your nose, about the environmental impact of convenience products, about all of the destruction we as consumers are causing to the earth’s ecosystems… and then we put our heads back in the sand. It’s too much to take in, too overwhelming to […]

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