If You Give a Moose a Muffin

The sequel to If You Give a Mouse a Cookie  is called If You Give a Moose a Muffin...and I'm beginning to think author Laura Numeroff has been spying on me while I'm cleaning and decluttering.  Read about my latest exploits "Moose style" ;)

http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/09/if-you-give-moose-muffin.html

If You Give a Mouse a Cookie

Have you ever read the book  If You Give a Mouse a Cookie by Felicia Bond?  It's one of my favorite kid books because I can relate to it so much! Read on to see why...

http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/08/if-you-give-mouse-cookie.html

It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year

Does anyone remember the funny Staples commercial?  It makes me smirk every time, and now  at Christmas when I hear the original tune, I think of the commercial ;)

Well, the "most wonderful time of year" when the kids head back to school and hit the books, is just a few days away.  So why not send them back with a few eco-friendly school supplies?  One of my favorite green pens is the Pilot Bottle 2 Pen or B2P.  It's the "world's first pen made from recycled bottles", writes nice and smooth, and the kids can brag that they are using a pen made from 89% post-consumer recycled plastic bottles.   

It's hard to believe but my youngest is about to begin his last year of elementary school.  A few things almost all elementary school teachers ask children to bring are crayons, colored pencils, and markers to school.  For years my top pick has been Crayola.  Not only do I like Crayola's products, but I'm thrilled with their green initiatives.  Crayola is committed to using renewable energy, reducing waste, and "helping protect the environment, so children have a cleaner, greener planet".   Crayola's initiative to harness the power of the sun, and build a 30,000 panel solar farm on 20-acres of it's land is impressive.  According to Crayola, the panels produce enough power to make 1 billion Crayola crayons and 500 million markers a year.  Not only are their markers made with solar power, but they are manufactured with re-ground plastic scrap from marker production.  Although the entire marker is not recyclable, the #5 plastic caps can be recycled, and if the tip and reservoir are removed, the marker barrels can also be recycled.  Finally, Crayola's colored pencils are never made from endangered or rainforest wood, but are made from reforested wood; for every tree used, another of the same kind is planted. 

When it comes to paper, there are many eco-friendly options as well.  Staples sells Eco-friendly composition books and wirebound notebooks made with 80% sugarcane waste and printed with "eco-conscious vegetable-and-water based inks."  Other options, available at Target are the trendy and cute Greenroom products made with soy inks and recycled paper; recycled paper notebooks, recycled 3-ring binders, tree-free notebooks made from banana paper, recycled file folders, and recycled journals.

Even pencils, a staple for the school-bound, are now more eco-friendly.  For precision pencils, there are Pentel EnerGize-X Mechanical pencils made of 84% recycled plastic and making them more eco-friendly is the fact that they are refillable.  For traditional pencils think "green"...not only are the Paper Mate Earth Write pencils green on the outside, but they are also green on the inside and made with 100% recycled wood.

So send them back with some guilt free eco-friendly products and as they board the bus and you wave good-bye, go ahead and smirk as "The Most Wonderful Time of the Year" commercial plays in your head.  

Great Green Gifts for Mother's Day 2012

Happy Mother's Day!

http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/05/great-green-gifts-for-mothers-day-2012.html

Freecycle to the Rescue

http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/04/freecycle-to-rescue.html

Happy Arbor Day 2012

Today is Arbor Day!  Read about all the reasons we should celebrate the wonder of trees and how they make our life better at:
http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/04/happy-arbor-day-2012.html

Happy Earth Day 2012

Happy Earth Day 2012! Commit to some great changes for Earth Day, try one or try them all.  Check out a few ideas at:

http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/04/happy-earth-day-2012.html

Breezy Benefits

Breeze on over to a la carte green

http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/04/breezy-benefits.html

Creative Genius

http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/04/creative-genius.html

Earth and Heart Healthy Exercise

Learn how I'm reaping the benefits of  chatting, being healthier in mind, body, and spirit and treading lightly on the Earth :)  


http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/04/earth-and-heart-healthy-exercise.html

Egg-cellent

The Easter bunny will be hopping down the bunny trail very soon!  Peek at alacartegreen to learn about an egg-cellent option for your egg hunts and Easter baskets.    http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/04/egg-cellent.html

Tending the phlox

Time to tend the phlox!  Check out some springtime happenings at  alacartegreen.blogspot.com
http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/04/tending-phlox.html

Grand Canyon - Havasupai's Mooney Falls

More happenings at alacartegreen!

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Declutter, reuse, fling

Please take a moment and check out what's going on at alacartegreen :)

http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/03/declutter-reuse-fling.html

Grapes

http://alacartegreen.blogspot.com/2012/02/grapes.html