“Mom, you’ve got to stop using paper plates,” the youngster told his mom. “You’re wasting trees and causing trash.”
“He’s really learning about ‘going green’ from school,” the mom remarked.  “They’ve got a big program about saving the environment.”

Many schools are emphasizing the “green” theme, including those where I do substitute teaching.  Youngsters are informing their parents and looking for ways to be green at home.
This is great, as long as it isn’t carried to extremes.  Parents have to take into account cost, time savings, and their lifestyle, as well as environment practices.  Sometimes you also can’t change all at …read more

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As we travel “around the world” this week, in keeping with the theme at One Book Two Book, we may want to look at “traveling green.”  You may be traveling vicarously, planning future travel, or actually traveling. 
However, consider:
“Going green,” ” traveling green,” wearing “green”, in fact, anything “green” that helps save the environment has become a very popular word. We teach our children to be conscious of the environment.  So a new blog at b5media, Traveling the Green Way should fit right in with current worldwide interests.
Liz Lewis, my co-blogger at Alzheimer’s Notes, now writes this  very interesting and informative new …read more