EarthMoment

Yes, Thanksgiving can be a stressful time, and anyway to make it easier on yourself and those around you is beneficial.  But don’t throw your green morals out the window in your hunt for less stress.  Here are some simple ways to keep it green.  Stop by your local farmer’s market for organic produce.  For table accents, look in your yard or garden.  Spice up the aesthetics of your table with herbs and flowers from right outside your home. Don’t forget the wine, organic wine! Make sure to recycle all the aluminum cans and plastic bottles, add your unwanted leftovers to your compost pile. Lastly when cleaning up the mess don’t spread chemicals in your home, use non-toxic cleaners. 

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Here are some helpful tips for buying green cleaning supplies,

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/buying-guides/green-cleaning-supplies.html

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Need help picking out a good organic wine?

http://planetgreen.discovery.com/food-health/organic-wine.html

Not so guilty pleasure

Visit Organic Boutique for an attractive floral arrangement to add to the table.

http://www.earthmoment.com/overview/1566 

It’s NBC’s green week and they’ve got their NBC TODAY cast spread throughout the world.  The theme of the show this week is “Ends of the Earth” and they’ve already touched on green energy, preserving wildlife and water resources.  Poor Ann Curry has had the most difficult assignment this week, scaling Mount Kilimanjaro.  While Curry was suffering from fatigue and altitude sickness; Meredith Viera was in Sydney, Australia; Matt Lauer in Belize, and Al Roker in Iceland.  Curry has been climbing for a week now to showcase glacial shrinking.  The camera crew has caught images of areas that use to be glacial now just sprinkled with snow. I’d suggest checking out the show this week it’s pretty interesting.

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Check out the TODAY show’s site,

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3032633/

Not so guilty pleasure

Learn more about the volcano that Ann Curry has been scaling.

http://www.earthmoment.com/product/23641620/Kilimanjaro-The-Great-White-Mountain-of-Africa

Ah the dramatics of the theater.  But these days’ thespians are focusing their passion for the arts on making their venues better for the environment.  The Green Theater Initiative has already taken on the theaters in London and is now moved on to Broadway.  The Green Theater Intiative “aims to both inspire theaters around the world to adopt more environmentally friendly policies, and to lessen their impact and increase sustainability.”

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Green Theater Initiatives recently launched their site that contains information and a bi-weekly newsletter to help educate its audience about creating a more sustainable lifestyle.

http://greentheaters.org/

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The site has a database of sources where theaters can find funding and tax breaks for adopting green initiatives. 

http://greentheaters.org/?cat=4

Not so guilty pleasure

This book explains the structure of theaters, after reading this you’ll have the basis understanding of theaters and you can learn just what components can be switched to sustainable means.

http://www.earthmoment.com/product/26508730/Theaters  

I just moved into a new place and treated myself to a new mattress.  After the shock of how expensive they are, I started to do some serious shopping around before giving away my leg and arm for a place to sleep. Here is what I learned in my search.  First mattresses wrapped in untreated wool are the best because they are naturally fire and dust-mite resistant.  Wool also breathes well so you won’t get too hot and wake up angry and clammy.  For the inside of the mattress, make sure you find one that uses natural latex (it’s tapped from rubber trees) and not the petroleum-based polyurethane.  Lastly, I was lucky enough to find a mattress that was constructed in the state where I live (less than an hour away from I live) so the distance it traveled from the warehouse factory to me was short and left a minimal carbon footprint. I suggest you all invest in a mattress you love because I’ve sleep like a baby since I got mine!

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Forget about counting sheep, you need the perfect mattress to fall asleep. The perfect mattress really does make a difference, I may even go as far as to say that it could be life-altering.  If you aren’t comfortable at night, then you aren’t sleeping well and you’re going through life exhausted.  But it is a big investment so make sure you do research and look for sales!

Not so guilty pleasure

Start your mattress search here!

http://www.earthmoment.com/product/16634177/DaVinci-Euro-Top-Mattress-Queen