Living Green

“Living Green” Program Comes to Des Plaines, IL

Mar 24, 2011 No Comments

Come join Carol Hohle, Founder and Executive Director of Inspiration House, as she shares her personal ecological conversion experience in an interactive talk on March 27, 2011 in Des Plaines, IL.

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Jane Bindley – a force for sustainable life

Dec 07, 2010 1 Comment

Jane Bindley is a force for life – for sustainable life on Earth! She can’t help herself – she has to be in community to share her love of working together to improve ways humanity connects and uses the resources around us. Her joy and “can do” spirit is infectious. Enjoy this interview where you’ll get a glimpse, just a thimbleful, of the many good works Jane is doing!

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Saving Trees – Reducing Clutter

Nov 05, 2010 No Comments

Now’s a good time to reduce the clutter in your mail box! During the autumn season in the U.S. many companies send out waves of catalogs. If you’re like me and tend to throw them straight into the recycle bin – here’s a tip to permanently remove them from being delivered to your home …

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Saving By Going Green

Jun 23, 2010 1 Comment

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 2 Comments

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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