You can make a difference!

February 13, 2008

I hope you all took the opportunity to fully embrace our democracy and vote today! I think right now is an exciting time of change. My hope is that you voted for a candidate that you believe can help us collectively re-align the choices our we are currently making as a nation to better fit […]

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Asking for help…

February 12, 2008

Thanks to a dear friend of mine I am going to do something that feels very weird. Asking for help. I’m flying solo here and I know you all are extremely busy. But in case you are spending too much time on Second Life; or you just lost your job and DON’T need another one […]

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Betty meets quantum entanglement

February 11, 2008

Please allow me the Sunday indulgence of briefly peering into the realm of quantum physics and the meaning of life. This week a series of discussions with friends, theologians and scientists (my husband being the most brilliant member of that group and the best looking, if you ask me) have lead me to a brief […]

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Denim Therapy

February 7, 2008

I have found an even better website than better world betty, if you can believe it. I know you all have that favorite pair of jeans – they perfectly conform to your unique lower body. Whether that is your big beautiful hips or your jay-lo look alike gluteus or the lack thereof. The jeans that […]

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Some of my favorite pre-K books encouraging environmental stewardship

February 6, 2008

The Lorax by Dr. Seuss (love it)Recycle! by Gail Gibbons (her non-fiction is always beautifully straight-forward)Don’t Pollute by Stan and Jan Berenstain (old school green effort)The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming by Laurie David and Cambria Gordon (informative and reader-friendly)Welcome to the Green House by Jane Yolen (beautiful celebration of the tropical rainforest)Hush Little Baby […]

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No more excuses, commuters!

February 4, 2008

Last week I went to a public about what citizens hope to have happen in the designated growth areas of Albemarle County (important stuff, if you live there like I do, but that’s another blog). At the sign in table, someone there gave me a funky, cool recycled pen with the website rideshareinfo.org. I had […]

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take the greener parenting path…

February 2, 2008

The kids and I had the morning to ourselves so the plan was to let Mom enjoy some Nia exercise at ACAC and then we could head to the bookstore and the park. In keeping with the no-buying pledge we head to Read It Again Sam on the downtown mall, my favorite used bookstore in […]

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Behold the toothbrush!

February 1, 2008

You bright green friends out there may have noticed that there are some items in your household that seem next to impossible to find a greener, earth-friendlier alternative. Personal care products fall into that category. They are often the ugliest offenders of consumption and environmental waste – disposable razors, plastic containers for lotions of all […]

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Because Mama said so…

January 30, 2008

I’m going to tell you something that you mothers out there already know… Mothers Rock! We are a powerful force to be reckoned with and if we tap into our tremendous powers of creativity and caring and desire for change, we can move mountains! Are you wondering what I put in my shade-grown organic coffee […]

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Musings on the art of re-gifting…

January 29, 2008

For the sake of the planet (and my no-new-buying pledge), please, Betty, can you make the art of the re-gift not only socially acceptable, but hip? Because the first stumbling block on the road of my “1 year of no-buying pledge” came just three weeks after my pledge was official (Jan 1). I had neglected […]

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