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  • Vote for Me!!!

    Kroger is having a contest in honor of Earth Day -- people are invited to design their own reusable shopping bag and the person who designs the bag with the most votes wins $1,000! Vote for me! A vote for Turningreen i…

  • Green Gifts

    We are not very far along in our Christmas shopping here at Turningreen headquarters. However, we did decide to "give the gift of green," whenever it seems appropriate. Say what? Here's some of what we're up to: - …

  • Oops!

    Today, I did not follow my normal morning routine. Translation -- I took a shower and got dressed in real clothes, skipped the gym and then met a friend at Starbucks for long overdue grown-up conversation with no child…

  • Random Rambling

    Last night, the Mr. and I had tickets to see a show? Concert? Performance? I'm not really sure what to call it. I guess it turned out to be a sort of book reading, in a very large and fairly packed venue, Richmond's h…

  • Are you cool?

    "To create awareness you have to create scarcity by producing a limitededition. I hate the idea of making the environment trendy,but you need to make it cool and then it becomes a habit.” So said London designer …

  • Food...glorious, food!

    Whole Foods has come to The Bubble. It's the first one in the area, and the grand opening drew people from far and wide. It's as if we never had access to any food before this! The parking lot was a zoo. It took a lo…

  • A Google Adventure

    Here it is, the last week of summer vacation....and I am scraping the last bits of edible food from the deep, dark corners of the fridge to avoid another grocery store stop with the kids in tow. However, it seems that I…

  • A Ray of Sunshine

    Today, a stranger thanked me for using reusable bags. I was grocery shopping with two overly chatty and excited children on the day before a major holiday. Also, our son was singing the theme song to Scooby Doo, over a…

  • Green, Green, Everywhere

    I was grumpy when I was folding laundry yesterday afternoon, and I decided that I would turn on the television to try to get out of my funk. The networks were filled with soaps (can't stand them), Dr. Phil and Jerry Spr…

  • Green things and thumbs

    Anyone need some new reusable bags? I got an e-mail today from ecobags.com about some summer sale items, including some of those funky, stretchy mesh bags. I have been really happy with all of my eco-bag purchases and …