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Meet a Reader | Jennifer from Arkansas

The Frugal Girl

Used bookstores, fair trade products, and locally sourced food/baskets/pottery are favorites, in addition to monthly outings with my kids. From my mother: she taught me mostly everything including checkbook balancing, saving, investing, economics, etc. Do I know where it went? Heavens, no. What’s one thing you splurge on?

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Calendar of Environmental Events Around the World

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Zero Waste Week – Mid-March – Established to promote positive alternatives to landfill and incineration and to raise community awareness of the social and economic benefits to be gained when waste is regarded as a resource base upon which can be built both employment and business opportunity.