Whale Watching Maui – Choosing the right boat

Learn how to evaluate whale watching boats in Maui Hawaii.

Hiking a Volcano

This is the four mile hike into the Kileua Iki Crater at Volcano’s National Park in Hawaii. I took the hike with six people aged 5 to 60 and I highly recommend it to experience the rain forest and the volcano floor. It is appropriate for children if you educate them to the two major dangers, the hill edges going into the caldera as well as the steam vents on the crater floor.

Unique Kids Gifts

Part two of five. With all the great kids on my list, I know how hard it is to find gifts kids will love that also are planet-friendly. Below are a few ideas that would appeal both to kids or the kid-at-heart.

High Mileage and Leaded Toys

Even after the extensive recall of Thomas the Tank and other major manufacturers toys from China, we still see every week a new toy recall from China. And lead is no small matter.

Baby Products That Are Baby Safe

For generations babies across the nation have been slathered with lotion that comes from a pink bottle, bottoms have been powdered from a white bottle and shampoo has been dispensed from a yellow labeled bottle. Many mothers never thought twice about what ingredients filled these containers, they just followed what the mothers before them practiced.

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Want a bun in your oven? Eat your veggies!

A study from Harvard University found that vegetarians may be more fertile than non-vegetarians. The study involved over 18,000 women who ate vegetarian protein instead of animal protein which cut their risk of ovulatory infertility in half. This news caught the interest of PETA who is planning to market this study using creatively placed fruits [...]

Disposable applesauce

Today we received an e-mail from M, she writes:
“I am trying to get over the mommy guilt I have been feeling about using the applesauce that comes in disposable packages. I was making an effort to use re-usable containers for awhile, but it is really icky to have to clean those when your daughter leaves [...]