Healthy & Green Back to School Tips

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It's that time of year again - children across America are going back to school!  While many of us make the extra effort to ensure our children are healthy and living a green life at home; what are our schools doing?  Check out Eco Chic Parties and … [Read more...]

What’s New Sunday?

The Eco Chic has been absent for a few days.  We packed up the family and headed off to Chattanooga, TN for a wedding.  Once again I kept the cloth diapers at home and packed up those nasty sposies.  I really have to find a system that works for … [Read more...]

Litter Free Lunches Will Wipe Your Face

Giveaway Alert!  Litter Free Lunches is giving TWO lucky readers their very own set (of 5) of reusable cloth napkins.  (Valued at $19.99 each)  ECO-ngratulations to Tamara and Bonggamom!  You are winners! Who can tell me what material makes up … [Read more...]

Waste-Free Lunch Kits from Kids Konserve

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Reader Special! Purchase anything from Kids Konserve from now until the end of Sept. 09 and save 15% using coupon code ecochic. If you read my post earlier about Waste-Free Lunches you will know that I have been working on making our own lunches … [Read more...]

My Boy and His Waste-Free Munchler

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In honor of my son's first week back to school I have dedicated the entire week to Waste-Free Lunches!  This week will feature great tips for sending your child off to school while treading lightly on the Earth.  When parents go school shopping … [Read more...]

Carnival of the Green #193

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The Carnival of the Green is a weekly blog phenomenon conceived of over pints of beer in London between Al Tepper of  City Hippy and Nick Aster of TriplePundit almost four years ago. It travels from blog to blog every Monday. TreeHugger became … [Read more...]

Back to School with TerraCycle and GIVEAWAY!!!

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My little 5 yr old (ok..he's a big boy now) will be starting school this week.  The start date of school is suppose to be Tuesday BUT that might change with Tropical Storm/Hurricane Faye headed towards Florida.  His school supply list was pretty … [Read more...]

Elmer’s Glue Crew!

I found this yesterday and was so excited that I shared it with my sons pre-K director this morning.  Elmer's and Wal-Mart have teamed up to encourage recycling of empty glue and glue stick containers.  I've never even considered how many of these … [Read more...]