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Best Environmentally and Chemically Safe Beach & Sport Sunscreens by EWG

goinggreengal — Wed, 30 Jun 2010 16:16:47 +0000

Environmental Working Group just posted their 2010 Sunscreen Guide. There are a lot of new sunscreens on the list that can be found in your local grocery store. I used to use Badger for my kids but it was impossible to find. We just started to use Caribbean Solutions and it works [...]

New Year’s Resolution – Recycle more than you do now

goinggreengal — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 20:04:39 +0000

Green New Year's

I know it is a little late for New Year’s Resolutions but better late than never. For those of you out there who are looking to change your lives, why not do that by contributing to saving the environment? I am asking you to do one thing this year. [...]

Bamboo Fabric Isn’t Natural or Green

goinggreengal — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:17:47 +0000

A friend of mine read my blog about eco-friendly clothing the other day and passed along an article from the Wall Street Journal, “Picking Apart Bamboo Couture“.

A quote from the WSJ article is “When I looked below the surface, though, I found that bamboo fabric is less “eco” and “sustainable” than it [...]

Eco-friendly Clothing

goinggreengal — Sun, 22 Nov 2009 23:18:41 +0000

Hi all, sorry it has been so long since I last posted. Don’t worry, I am still going green but I have been a little busier with starting a new job.

A collegue recommended that I buy eco-clothing recently. My first impression when hearing about it was that it [...]

Zero waste plans in Austin fall short

goinggreengal — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:32:43 +0000

I would love to compost but I can’t because I rent my house and it takes about a year to get a compost going. I think Austin should start a compost program for all residents. Austin has put together a zero waste plan for creating zero waste by 2040. Right now [...]

It ain’t easy being green

goinggreengal — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 02:21:00 +0000

I think it is time for me to give a status on how well this going green thing is doing. I am all greened out this week. I have writer’s block and frankly just don’t have the energy to do another radical green change right now. I have talked about a lot [...]

Save energy with Powermat Wireless Charging

goinggreengal — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 04:45:51 +0000

If you haven’t already heard about the new Powermat wireless charging device from this hilarious commercial that has been all over the air all you have to do is search for Powermat on Google, Twitter and YouTube and you will see what the buzz is. Full disclosure – I am the Sr. [...]

Green Exterminator

goinggreengal — Sat, 03 Oct 2009 01:18:15 +0000

There are some big bugs in Texas and occasionally they show up in your house. We have ants and roaches. I know that is disgusting – it’s not like they are all over the place. We just find one here or there in the kitchen or the bathroom. For me [...]

Too much snail mail!

goinggreengal — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 01:18:05 +0000

We bought a shredder so that we could get rid of all of our old papers in the house. If you are like me at all, you have boxes of paper with “important” papers because you don’t want to throw out things with your personal information on it. I would say that [...]

Green Cleaning

goinggreengal — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 22:54:23 +0000

I just had my house cleaned top to bottom by a green cleaning company, TX Green Clean. I have mentioned before that my son has asthma and chemicals irritate his lungs. They did a fabulous job and they only used non-toxic products. They used a steam cleaner to disinfect and clean [...]