The day after Christmas and everything left is on sale. You get a big saving on holiday items because the stores do not want to store it for a year. So, if you are rushing out to buy items on sale for next years holiday made your findings eco-friendly. Look for the LED lights, being controlled by computer chip technology they don’t emit heat. This will keep you worried free of any fire hazard if using a real tree and they do not use much energy. so if you have a large electric bill during the Holiday season change to these LED lights and not only be green but save some green at the same time.

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Eco-friendly products has made their way into our lives and homes over the last few years. Everyone is getting into not only wanting to have a safe environment for our mother earth but to have the environment safe for them as well. We want the products we use to be non toxic and non threatening to the human health of our loved ones and ourselves. The products we use affect every aspect of our lives and the lives of our children so we must be sure that it is truely a safe product to use. Before buying a product that says it is eco-friendly do a study on that product from a consumer guide for environment safe products. This should tell what the product is made from and where it is made. As a consumer you will want to be environmently aware about the authenticity of the broduct’s eco-friendly claim.

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There are a lot of women out there getting ready to bring a new baby in this world to be loved. When you are thinking of all the things that the baby will need be sure and think about the future of the baby also. There are a lot of green products out now for the baby’s needs and will protect the environment and the baby at the same time. Remember green products when buying the babies diapers, baby wipes, its crib sheets, and baby blanets. There are safe and sustainable baby bottles that are safer and more eco-friendly also. When buying gifts for that baby shower for the Mother to be remember to buy save eco-friendly for the baby and the babies environment.

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You want to go green, but you don’t know how. Well, start with just turning off the lights. Lights that are on, but no one is in the room using the light is money going out of your wallet and wasting energy. I read that lights is about 12% of the home’s energy bills. So start going green by turning off the lights that are not needed than advance up. Make it a family rule the last one out of the room turns the lights off.

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This youtube group has several tips on installing your own solar panels and living off of the grid.

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Teachers between now and the first of the New Year your class will be doing a lot of arts alnd crafts. This is a good time to use up all the newspapers you saved to make a paper mache something. Also when the children start cutting things out of the colored paper save the pieces to make a colorful collage or to glue around a plastic bottle, cardboard container or box. There is so many things to make so recycle, recycle and recycle some more to make great presents for the children’s parents.

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Fall is here and it is a good time to fix the house so the heat will stay in before the really cold weather gets here. One way is to chalk around the windows and doors. Check around the plug in and light switches, you may be surprise how much energy can be lost in these areas. You need to go along the floor and ceilings to check for cracks and fill they. After this your home should be warmer.

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I just fixed a pot of homemade chile and it was so good. The beef I raised my self and it is organic beef. The onions, tomatoes, peppers I grew and they also was organic. The tomato sauce I canned myself and I knew what was in the sauce.
I have a garden I am now in the process of canning Chile sauce from the veggies I have grown myself and they are organic veggies. I also pickled okra that was grown organic. I am storing up for the winter and my food I am putting up is organic food I grew myself. Anyone can do this even if you live in an apartment house. ( not the raiseing of a steer just veggies)
Yes, it is a little work but this winter when the snow is blowing and it is so cold out side I already have my organic supplies inside. Another plus, by doing the work of putting up your food now will help out when the prices goes up this winter on the veggies this winter.

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So many people just have not gotten it yet. I have been so many places this summer and very few of the places of the places are recycling. The plastic bottles and milk cartons are still going into the trash. Plastic bags are being used to sack up products from the stores by the thousands. I have a bag I carry to the store to put the things I buy in that says “I use to be a plastic bottle. Now, that bag is so much prettier than the plastic bottles thrown along the road or sitting in a landfill. If your community does not have a recycling program started than someone please start one today.

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Some children are very glad school is out and believe it or not others do like school being out for the summer.  Children get bored easy and they can get into trouble if their hands are not kept busy. 

Think of things they can do around the house that is fun.  Children like art and making things.  Instead of throwing away the newspapers help the children make a paper mache of the world,  Sponge Bob or what ever they can come up with.  Take empty pop can and make a wind chime.  You can even find scraps around the house and start making those Christmas ornaments for the Christmas tree early.  They can make items to put on the table at your 4th of July party.  Let the children plant their own garden. Children love to get their hands dirty. 

If you can think of things for children to do that is fun and helps the environment send us a comment and let us and the other readers know.  Have a great, safe and healthy summer.

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