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Green Tip – Turn Up The A/C

Try turning up the temperature on your home air conditioner to 78 degrees throughout the summer. One of the easiest ways to do this, is to buy a programmable thermostat. You can set it a few degrees higher when you’re going to be away from home and at bedtime and to a more comfortable temperature [...]

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Why Go Organic?

For Your Health! Organic production helps protect your health, your family’s health and future generations. For the Planet! Organic farming never uses toxic pesticides. This helps keep the air you breath, the water you drink and bathe in, and soil where you grow your veggies clean. It’s Easy! Almost every food you eat has an [...]

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Green Tip – Farmers Markets

Spend the morning at your local Farmer’s Market! Showing support for your local farmers by shopping at your local farmer’s market is great thing! You’ll find a ton of locally grown veggies and fruit, baked goods, flowers and plants. The produce is grown locally on farms and harvested at the peak of freshness so you [...]

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Celebrating Earth Week

This year marks the 40th Anniversary of Earth Day on Thursday, April 22nd and you KNOW how much we LOVE the Earth here at All Things Mamma! So, in honor of Earth Day, we’ll be giving you tips, crafts and ideas to celebrate the Earth all year long! Let’s start simple…have you made these small [...]

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Green Tip – Seal Drafts Around Windows and Doors

By keeping heat from escaping through windows and doors, you can cut your heating costs dramatically! By lighting a candle and holding it in front of the window or doors seams, you’ll be able to detect drafty spots by watching the flame. If it doesn’t flicker, you’re good to go. If it does…time to seal [...]

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Green Tip – Buy Eco-Friendly Coffee

When buying whole-bean or ground coffee, look or organic, Fair Trade, Bird Friendly, or Rainforest Alliance certification seals. The coffee farms that produce the coffee practice sustainable agriculture to preserve or restore ecosystems in the rainforest. Just one household switching to certified coffee a year is enough to protect 9,200 square feet of rainforest.

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Green Tip – Buy Baby Food In Glass Jars

Buy your baby’s food in glass jars next time you head to the Market. Each year, parents send tons of used baby food containers to the landfill. Buying glass jars can be be recycled or re-used in projects around the house. The mini glass jars can be used to hold buttons or screws or used [...]

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Day 3: Project Home Organization

Well, on to day 3 of my home organization. I normally shop for 2 weeks of groceries and only run back to the store for staples such as bread, milk and eggs in-between trips. Well, that’s the plan anyways. Sometimes I decide I don’t want whatever I’ve planned for a meal or have a craving [...]

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Project Home Office: HELP!

Since I’ve become much more active on my computer now that I’m blogging, doing finances, checking email, and shopping researching, I really need a much better way of organizing my work space. Here’s what I have… And here’s what I’d like to have…. Pottery Barn Office System with a sleek, new laptop. Well, what I [...]

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Greening Your Kitchen

Greening the kitchen doesn’t have to be a daunting task. Below are some simple steps from Sara Snow that you can take in the kitchen to lessen your impact on the environment. • Set up an easy-to-locate recycling center and get the whole family in on the game. Using chalk and chalkboard paint, label old [...]

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