Photo by net_efekt Hopefully you've set some green goals or made a green resolution for this year. There are always changes we can make and steps we can take to move ourselves and our families toward a healthier, simpler and more natural lifestyle. For myself, I made a list of green changes that I want to make this year. It's kind of an ongoing list, some of these things I rolled over from my list last year, because I didn't get to them for one reason or another, and I know that I will add … [Read more...]
Simple Steps – Move Your Paper Towels
Happy New Year! There is just something about a new year, isn't there? The dreams, the goals, the possibilities. Wondering what this year will bring, and looking back at how far we've come and how much has happened over the past year. I love the freshness and new beginnings that a new year brings, but I also know that somehow it doesn't seem to last very long before things kind of slide back to the way they were before. Baby steps, small changes; whether making a new year's resolution, or … [Read more...]
Simple Steps – Turn Off Your Lights
It's a new month (already!) and it's time for another step in the Simple Steps Series. So far we've tackled reducing our water usage and changing our hand soap. Winter is fast approaching and we have been resisting the urge to turn on our heat even when we wake up in the morning to a 60 degree house. We made it all through September and October without turning on our furnace (and I was hoping to make it without turning on our AC either, but we did have to use it a few times in late … [Read more...]
Baby Steps to Going Green in the Bathroom
Photo by Gabriel Rocha Today I'm over at Green...Your Way talking about steps you can take and changes you can make to go green in your bathroom. From the post: It’s the smallest room in the house, the bathroom, but making even small changes to your routine in this room can have a big impact on your journey toward going green. There are so many different opportunities to change products or change habits, making it easy to get started with just one small change and then move on to others after … [Read more...]
Simple Steps – Change Your Hand Soap
Photo by AnnieGreenSprings Welcome back to the Simple Steps Series. Last month we talked about reducing our water usage, and this month we'll take another easy step to go green in our bathrooms and our kitchens. This month's Simple Step is to Change Your Hand Soap! Do you have antibacterial soap in your kitchen and bathroom? Do you know what the main ingredient is in antibacterial soap and cleaning products? The answer is Triclosan, and we've talked about it here at Live Renewed … [Read more...]
Looking Back: “Becoming Green”
Photo by Ben Fredericson I have been feeling a little under the weather this week, sorry for the lack of posting. I'm starting to feel better and hopefully this weekend will be a restful and relaxing one. I wanted to share this post with you, I wrote it back on July 17, 2008, when I first started this blog. It is so amazing for me to look back and see the journey that I have been on over the past 2-3 years. If you had told me 5 years ago that this would be the path that my life would take, … [Read more...]
Overcoming Obstacles – When Life Happens
We've all had those days. The days where nothing seems to go as planned, everything seems to take 10 times longer than normal to accomplish, and everything that could go wrong, does go wrong. Whether it's sick kids, the dog getting into the garbage and tearing it all over the house, forgetting to put the coffee pot under the brewing coffee maker at the same time that the milk you're heating for yogurt is boiling all over the stove top, the kids deciding that it would be way more fun to dump … [Read more...]
Overcoming Obstacles – Take the First Step
I hope you all are ready to overcome some obstacles with me! Last week we talked about overcoming obstacles and I shared some of the biggest obstacles that we are facing as a family right now with going green. Now it's time to tackle our obstacles head on! I don't know about you, but I am the kind of person that can get easily overwhelmed. If I look at something as a whole, thinking about how much time and energy it will take, it often is enough to make me too overwhelmed so I just walk … [Read more...]
Overcoming Obstacles in My Life
Image by Living Water International Yesterday we talked about overcoming obstacles in our lives to going green. Since I asked you to share your obstacles and changes you would like to make, I thought it was only fair that I share mine too. One big change that I know we need to make right now is in the amount of water that we use and waste around our home. Ever since learning about the Advent Conspiracy and Living Water International last Christmas, I am constantly aware of the fact that … [Read more...]
Overcoming Obstacles
Photo by cproppe I'd love to do that, but... I'm sure we all have excuses, I'm sorry - reasons, for why we don’t do things that we know we probably should do, whether it's exercising, getting organized or going green. We don’t have time, or energy, or money, or enough information, etc. – and the list could go on and on. There always seems to be some good reason we can use to put something off until another day. I know this because I myself am a huge procrastinator, and I am pretty darn … [Read more...]
