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My Word for 2019

Family Balance Sheet

This is my referral Amazon link, but I found the book at the library.). The author, Bea Johnson, chronicles her journey of zero waste living through 5 Rs: Refuse, Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot. Plastic can damage our environment when it is not recycled. It can end up on our pristine coastlines and in the bellies of marine life.

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Green Ideas to Save on the Holidays

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

Family and friends are around and catching up with everyone at the holiday parties is great fun, with drinks and yummy treats to be had by all. Recycle your wrapping paper. If not, make a point to save that paper this year, so that you can recycle it next December. You saved all your wrapping paper from last year, right?

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10 Evening Activities Your Family Can Enjoy for Less!

Saving Cents With Sense

Younger children can even make their own musical instruments if they wish using recycled materials. While you enjoy the music serve inexpensive drinks and snacks such as fruit juice and popcorn. Have inexpensive snacks and drinks, fun music, and you can even invite players to come in costume for fun. Go on a lightening bug hunt.

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Why You Should Live Green

Prairie Eco-Thrifter

In the studies that included them systematically, food and drink, transport and housing are consistently the most important areas – across both different studies and the different impact categories compared (global warming, acidification, photochemical ozone formation, and eutrophication). What do you have to lose?

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