On Father’s Day, my Greenville city neighborhood, Marshall Forest, was decimated by a microburst storm.The phone emergency warning came as the punishing winds were already upon us. As the house groaned, and the lights flickered and died, my husband and I saw the dark shadows of trees falling into our garden and sprinted to scoop […]
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33 easy ways to go green in Greenville
As 2020 begins it’s impossible to ignore the impact our lifestyles and consumption as humans are having on the planet we call home. We are on track to have more plastic in the ocean than fish by 2050 and global emissions of carbon dioxide from fossil fuels were on course to hit a record high […]
A guide to cloth diapers
According to the EPA, around 20 billion disposable diapers end up in landfills each year in the US alone, causing 3.5 million tons of waste. If you’re considering the switch to cloth diapers, here’s everything you need to know… Confession: I didn’t cloth diaper with my son. As a first-time mother, just keeping a small […]