Water Bottles
In my post about bottled water, I talked about the aluminum Sigg bottles we use and how much we love them. They are expensive though. The other day I saw an Oggi Aluminum Sport Water Bottle (Amazon link) at Winners. They are made of recycled aluminum* and the 0.8L (26oz) size was $8.99 […]

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A child who takes a lunch to school will produce about 70 pounds of garbage every year.
Seventy. Pounds. When I read that, I didn’t believe it and went right away to look it up somewhere else. Yup. The numbers come in at 45-90 pounds per student per year. That’s the weight of a 10 year […]

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The fuss about the consumption of bottled water is getting louder and even some who are not conscious of their personal environmental impact are starting to notice. In short: bottled water is excessively consumptive, polluting, expensive and wasteful. And with the dramatic increases in consumption of bottled water, the overall effects on the environment […]

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According to The Union of Concerned Scientists,
… the average lawn mower emits as much smog-forming pollution in one hour as eight new cars traveling at 55 miles per hour.
- Union of Concerned Scientists
Knowing this is what prompted us, two summers ago, to buy a reel mower. The one I chose was the Lee Valley […]

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