Sing To Your Baby

Nicole Lloyd is the creator of Soundbirth – a beautiful program allowing you to connect with your unborn child, and help create a less painful labour and birth environment. Nicole has plethora of beautiful music experience under her belt, and frankly I can’t do it justice here in this bio. Please check out her amazing about [...]

5 Ways To Introduce Kids To The Outdoors

This post is contributed by Jess Spate. Jess is a long-distance hiker and rock climber, and part of a family that loves the outdoors. She works for Appalachian Outdoors (where you can find a good selection of kids outdoor gear, and edits a British outdoor clothing site. Kids that enjoy the great outdoors tend to be more active [...]

{Product Review} Amazing Cloth Menstrual Pads

I must admit, if you asked me if I used cloth menstrual pads a few years ago, I would have looked at you like you had a second head. Me, a woman of the 90s, using a product my grandmother used? Rags? Get out of here!! But, three babies and a bit of a natural [...]

6 Reasons I'm Raising Young Entrepreneurs

As a homeschooling, attachment parent, I’m very conscious of the example I’m setting for my children. I’m very conscious of raising them to believe that they can be, do, or have anything they turn their hearts to, if they create it. This is why I encourage the entrepreneurial spirit in my youngsters. I encourage them to create [...]

No Poo Haircare

My grandmother has a belief that “old person smell” is because old women don’t wash their hair. I’m not certain if that’s the case, but I don’t wash my hair at all, and I can assure you my hair doesn’t smell.  I don’t wash my children’s hair, and they just smell, well, like kids. No [...]

Is Your Microwave Killing Your Food?

A few years ago I stopped using my microwave for cooking food. This actually wasn’t based on anything scientific at the time, rather just an assumption that heating food in the most technologically advanced way would probably not be good for me. A short while later I did an experiment where I heated 3 cups [...]

Is Transport A Higher Priority Than Food?

Amtrak recently announced it’s new bio diesel train runs on 20% bio material.[1] This will result in a significant reduction in the air pollution caused by the trains. On the surface this looks like a huge win. But this train is run 20% on beef by-products. The first image that comes to mind is a [...]

41 Quick Tips To Green Your Home

There are always a multitude of small things that when done can largely contribute to a more energy efficient and non-toxic environment for yourself and the world around you. So if it is only one thing, pick out something and make a difference to either your energy bill, reduced wastage or healthier home. Energy Saving [...]

Earth Day

Earth Day was started on the 22nd of April, 1970 by US Senator Gaylord Nelson, designed to raise awareness and appreciation for the Earth and it’s environment. Since then many countries around the world have adopted it and events based on Earth day normally occur 1-2 weeks before and after the date. So what is exactly accomplished [...]