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Tis the season to be sustainable!

We are already in the thick of November and the holidays are fast approaching. In the season of over-indulgences, it's easy to get lost...

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Traceless Toothcare

Such simple shifts = Love your teeth + Hug the planet Let's start with the brush... On a recent trip to my dentist, I was already...

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Plastic Free July! Let's do this.

We are upping our game a bit more for the month of July. It won't be easy since we are doing quite a lot of traveling, but that just...

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Local Bounty & Plastic Free Storing

An early morning trip to Asheville's downtown market is always a treasure of a journey. We didn't need many items this time but look how...

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One Day's Mail...wtf?

We were getting so many catalogs in the mail, most of which we never and would never order from and even two of the same catalog on some...

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Synthetic Fabrics have Surprising Consequences

Last year my oldest son suggested that, if I was going to buy him clothes for a present, he would like them to be all organic cotton....

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When throwing garbage out a car window was 'normal'

If you grew up in the 60's-70's, you may remember seeing garbage regularly tossed out of car windows. Almost everyone did it and, while I...

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Gracie gets me where I need to go

For so many years and over 260,000 miles, I drove my "Mom van." The kids grew up with it and it carried us safely on several cross...

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For Cooks and the Wee Folk: Memories with (hopefully) a Point

I learned years ago that a meal involves more than the list of ingredients. In some unseen way, the spirit of the cook dances in the...

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When Shit Gets Real

A few weeks ago I saw a post about the conditions under which chickens live in American factories. They are de-beaked and traumatized,...