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Saving By Going Green

Jun 23, 2010 1 Comment by Carol Hohle

Big Green Purse is sponsoring a “Be One in a Million” campaign designed to get one million women to intentionally shift at least $1,000 of their existing budget to environmentally-friendly products. If achieved, that adds up to a noticeable impact of one billion dollars in the marketplace.

One New York woman, Nancy, who pledged to be greener saved far more than $1,000. By her calculations she actually saved more than $10,000! Learn more about what made this shift for Nancy so successful and, if her story inspires you, take the One in a Million challenge yourself.

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Animal, Vegetable, Miracle

May 18, 2009 No Comments by Carol Hohle

Speaking of Faith, features author Barbara Kingsolver and her book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle –
a chronicle of a year her family spent eating primarily what they could grow of raise themselves.
Listen or download the program here.

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Bring Your Own Fork

May 07, 2009 No Comments

I was on a conference call the other evening and we got to talking about those “invisible” conveniences we take for granted – “disposables” – especially those paper or plastic goods that help us carry our stuff … groceries, new clothes, leftover food from the restaurant, coffee. After kvetching about this cultural conspiracy that keeps us tossing out way too much stuff we agreed to change our own habits. …

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Every So Often I need OUT

Mar 25, 2009 No Comments

Every so often I need OUT…. I have to get away from everybody–away from all these people I love most in the world–in order to regain a sense of proportion…. Often I need to get away completely, if only for a few minutes. My special place is a …

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Living with Less

Mar 09, 2009 No Comments

Last night I watched a television program I had taped. It was a program from Oprah’s show about living with less. Originally aired on March 2, 2009, “What Can You Live Without? Experiment,” profiled two families who committed for seven days to no shopping, no spending, no wasting. …

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Thinking Small – Thinking Less about STUFF

Oct 13, 2008 No Comments

Have you ever heard of the Not So Big House or Tiny Houses?

Lately, most of my friends and acquaintances all coincidentially happen to be simplifying our lifestyles and reducing the number of our possessions. Funny how we are doing this in the midst of terrible economic news – when people are discovering their financial savings have dropped by 20% and their homes are worth 20-30% less. You’d think we’d all be hording our stuff for fear of losing it and for fear of gloomier days ahead. …

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