I have been meaning to write this post for some time once summer ended and we turned the gas back on. Then fall came upon us with the new school year and all that entails for us. Now fall has turned to winter! and I still have not written about our experience with living without [...]

This is an interesting blog: The Future is GreenThoughts on the coming of a society that is in balance with nature and the magnitude of the problems in the way; facing the reality that the present world’s population has moved beyond the earth’s carrying capacity, the looming peak in world oil production, green alternatives, and [...]

It’s winter here in Northeast Ohio which usually means I blast the heat and run up an insanely huge gas bill because I am a freeze cry baby. Not this season! I am determined to get our gas bill under control. Here are some ideas I have to share with you and I will blog [...]

Saw this on Greenpeace.org: Plastic trash and other flotsam that is either directly thrown or washed by rivers into the North Pacific, is swept up by the currents of a gigantic swirling vortex called the North Pacific Gyre. In the centre, the calm, just northeast of Hawai’i the result is a trash carpet that scientists [...]

Clothes air drying up on the balcony. I LOVE the smell of air-dried clothes, OMG. Not to mention it costs nothing to dry. And the energy used is pure sunlight! This method of drying clothes uses no electrical or fossil fuel energy. Subscribe to Family Footprint by Email

I really like this quote: In securing the future of the planet, we secure happiness for ourselves. One of the aims of the Greens is to turn around the tide of pessimism amongst the young people of the world.Bob Brown Dr Robert James Brown (born December 27, 1944), is an Australian Senator, the inaugural Parliamentary [...]

Pesticides: -In the US, pesticides poison 110,000 people each year. More than one-third of calls to animal poison control centers result from pets exposed to pesticides. The volatile organic compounds (including pesticides) found indoors are believe to cause 3,000 cases of cancer a year in the US. -According to the New York State Attorney General’s [...]

The saddest thing of all to me about this is that the denial of personal ownership or responsibility toward the environment I see and hear from others is usually not one of mean-spirited selfishness or an intentional callous disregard for what is happening…it can seem petty and grasping, but that’s because so many people feel [...]

This is old news to some of you (the article is from 2005) but sadly, still intensely relevant: Article by WWF World-Wide Fund for NatureToxic Pollutants kills 5 Million Children a yearLead causes neurological damage to 18 millions of others (ANSA) Toxic pollutants kill at least five million children each year around the world and [...]

Would you like to grow your own food, support local businesses, and do more things that are eco-friendly and worker-friendly and healthy but just can’t afford to? It doesn’t have to be either/or. You can do those things and still, for example, shop at Costco. We buy gadgets there, for example my husband got me [...]