Have you ever stopped to think about how your everyday choices impact the planet? From your eating to your shopping habits, here are six ways you can become a more eco-friendly family. 1. Choose reusable items over disposable ones. Families today are busy. Between soccer tournaments, piano lessons, haircuts, homework, meal planning, and work meetings,…
We live in a consumerist world and consume a lot of natural resources each day. In fact, it’s estimated that humanity uses approximately 40% more resources in a year than nature can recreate in a year. So what can you do to control the number of resources you use every day and help save our…
Spring is the perfect time to talk about eco-friendly and sustainable living practices. Not only is everything in bloom, full of new life, but April 22nd is also Earth Day! As parents we all want to make the best choices for our children, but often we forget to keep Mother Earth in mind. Green parenting,…
A quote from Healthy Child, Healthy World encapsulating the book’s message to all families: “Our design assignment at this moment in our history could, perhaps, be summed up thus: Make a world where we love all the children of all species for all time. If that were the plan, then we’d have no choice but to create…
Admiration and inspiration are a great place to start any size step onto a new road. Bringing our attention to The Heart of Green Award nominees is bound to elevate our motivation for the eco-evolution underway. The creators of this prestigious accolade are found at dailygreen.com. Their website shares blogs, videos and stories that introduce…
We cherish our children and devote ourselves to serving their best interests in their health, happiness and development. When they are babies, we hold them close to our hearts to nurture our bond with them. In their maturation they insist on freedom and we gradually let them go to foster their independence. We give them…
…I once told a group of environmental activists, “You can save a forest today, but if we don’t raise children consciously, it will be cut down tomorrow.” From this perspective we see that the well being of children sits at the root of every endeavour. With out happy, healthy children, we have no forest, no…
