Celebrations

Creating Tradition Around Easter

Posted by Kari on Mar 30, 2010
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I’ve been checking out some other blogs to see what they have to say about greening up Easter. It’s what you’d expect – recycled baskets, naturally-dyed eggs, healthier candy or non-candy gifts, and alternatives to fake, plastic grass. While there are many variations of these ideas I noticed that in the comments to these blogs there is one stand-out theme that eclipses them all. Tradition.

The Greenest Games Ever? Vancouver and the 2010 Winter Olympics.

Posted by The Green Mama on Feb 18, 2010
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It is a once in a lifetime experience, being a spectator at the Olympic games:  a green mama spectator at the green Olympic Games. The 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver is being billed as the greenest games ever, and that is in the eco sense of the word.

Summer Camp for the Whole Family

Posted by The Green Mama on Jul 06, 2009
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It’s summer.  Even now that I am all grown-up, I long for the days of summer camp.  Something I can share with my whole family: get me into a canoe, sitting around a campfire, and where someone else cooked (preferably no “bug juice” though).  I grew up poor, yet I still got to go to summer camp growing up.  I went to a YMCA summer camp, another focused around “creative expression.”  I went to Girl Scout camp and horse-riding camp.  I grew up in the city and spending a week in the woods was like magic.

A Greener Mother's Day

Posted by The Green Mama on May 05, 2009
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My child will wake up from her nap in a moment and my good intentions to write my Mother’s Day blog will become yet more ominously close to NOT happening (at least until after the actual day).

Lights out for Earth Hour

Posted by The Green Mama on Mar 27, 2009
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Chicago will turn its lights out tomorrow for one hour.  Last year Chicago participated in Earth Hour for the first time.  I watched from the pier in Rogers Park as the entire city went dim (except for the Trump Tower--one phallic hold out).  It was dramatic and beautiful and it saved a reported 7% of electricity.  That is the carbon emissions equivalent of taking 1 million cars off the road for one hour. 

How do you really celebrate Earth Day?

Posted by The Green Mama on Apr 22, 2008
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Today, Earth Day turns 38. (Not the Earth, but the day itself). One of my favorite parenting websites (okay, this website is like a frenemy — love to hate it and hate to love it.) Anyway, they didn’t even mention Earthday on their daily email, they mentioned the new really expensive stroller I should buy.

Welcome to the Green Mama Blog

Posted by The Green Mama on Dec 27, 2007
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Welcome to the Green Mama Blog

My husband and I are environmentalists the way some people are Artists, or Christians, or Democrats. It defines how we live—how we shop, who we hang out with, what we read, and, of course, how we parent.

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