Eco Back to School: Realistic eco-friendly school supplies
In the next few weeks, many eco blogs and websites will have posts and articles about eco-friendly school supplies. Recycla and the other Eco Women are big fans of anything eco-friendly, but as women...
View ArticleEco Back-to-School: Safe and Sturdy Lunchbags and Backpacks
One of the big and necessary expenses of back to school shopping, whether outfitting a preschooler or a college student, is backpacks. This is one area where you definitely get what you pay for, the...
View ArticleEco Back to School: Easy, nutritious, delicious, eco school lunches
Recycla has had children in school for nine years now (a combined 17 years between the two girls) and in all that time her daughters have never once bought lunch at their schools. They don’t like the...
View ArticleEco Back-To-School: Swap It!
Back to school supplies can cost up to $100 if you have a few kids heading back to school this fall. Tack on book fees, activity fees, gym shoes and lunches and things start to get expensive. Regular...
View ArticleThe School Bus
Recycla recently read a few interesting pieces of trivia about school buses that she thought merited mentioning: There are approximately 25 million children attending school in the United States this...
View ArticleSustainable Soccer – Or GO BIG GREEN
Around here, in P.O. (or Portland, Oregon…or E.O. ‘Eugene, Oregon’) when we say, “Go Big Green”, we’re usually talking about the Oregon Ducks at UofO – sorry Beavs but it’s true. And when we talk about...
View ArticleHalloween treat options
This is going to be an unusual Halloween for Recycla’s family, because this year her daughters are really too old go trick-or-treating. After a decade of having October 31 as a Major Occasion on the...
View ArticleHalloween safety
Tomorrow is Halloween — one of the greatest days in a kid’s year. Help keep it safe for everyone, including the people coming to your front door for treats, by taking a few simple precautions: First...
View ArticleIdeas for an easy, eco Easter basket
Recycla was very surprised to look at the calendar yesterday and discover that Easter is this coming Sunday. She’s not quite sure how she let it slip her by, but she did and there’s no changing the...
View ArticleGetting ready for the school year
Recycla is having a hard time coming to terms with the fact that her daughters start school next week. Where did the summer go? Both daughters will be in high school this year, so the supply list this...
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