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March’s Top 5 Eco Crafts

By Donna DeForbes | February 28, 2014 - 5:00 am | Arts and Crafts

Eco-Friendly Spring Crafts | Eco-Mothering.com

Welcome to my monthly installment of eco-friendly arts and craft projects gathered from around the Internet. While some projects require adult supervision, they are a fun, educational and green hobby for your kids. This month’s collection includes crafts for St. Patrick’s Day and the Spring Equinox. Enjoy! Shamrock Sprouts from Housing a Forest St. Patrick’s Day Bunting from Simple As That Blog Garden Hose Spring Wreath from Create Craft. Love. Floppy Disk Planters from Brit + Co. Hanging Light Bulb Vase from DIY Weddings This post is featured on Natural Living Monday, Thank Goodness It’s Monday, Tuesday Greens, Works for Me Wednesday and Healthy, Happy, Green and Natural Blog Hop.

Top 5 Ways to Go Green on St. Patrick’s Day

By Donna DeForbes | March 8, 2013 - 6:00 am | Holidays and Celebrations

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Drink Green On a normal day, about 5.5 million pints of Guinness are consumed around the world. On St. Patrick’s Day, that number jumps to 13 million (stat: National Geographic) Drink as much Guinness as you like, but please remember to recycle those bottles and cans afterward. Or support a more eco-friendly beer company such as Colorado’s New Belgium Brewery (Fat Tire beer), the first wind-powered brewery in the nation. Also sustainable, Sierra Nevada Brewery gets much of their energy needs from solar panels and hydrogen fuel cells, powers their trucks on 100% vegetable oil waste, and, in 2011, diverted 99.7% of the brewery’s solid waste from the landfill through recycling, composting and reuse. Eat Green And I don’t mean unnaturally green-colored foods like milkshakes and pastries. That artificial food coloring (FD&C Green No.3 and Fast Green FCF) is derived from petroleum and is associated with hyperactivity in children, cancer and allergic … Continue reading →