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23 November, 2009 by Green Life Staff Categories :
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Eco-Friendly Munchgear Soup to Nuts Lunch Kit

Unless you are able to send your kid to a school that has a farm to school program and that serves lunches that are organic, more than likely you are packing your kid's lunches each day.  There are many different lunch box systems out there, but many parents just throw together random things and put them together on a hurried day.  If you are looking for a great kit to use for kids, you'll find that Munchgear Soup to Nuts Kit is a great option that you can use for your kids when they take their lunch to school. You'll find that this special Munchgear Soup to Nuts Kit happens to be made by the company Citizenpip and it is a kit that has everything all in one that is better than most of the other lunchbox systems that are out there today.  Here is a look at what all is included in this kit. Within the kit, you'll find that there is a lunch bag that is insulated.  It has a nametag on it as well as a carabiner that can be attached to any backpack ...
27 August, 2009 by Green Life Staff Categories :
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How Can You Help Your Child’s School Go Green?

If you have been wondering how you can help your child’s school go green, you have come to the right place!  It is important for all of us to work together in order to ensure that we are protecting our environment, and our world on the whole.  It is important that educational facilities such as public schools, private schools, and other types of educational institutions work with our children, and teach them the importance of properly protecting the environment.  Your child and their peers are the future of the world.  If we get them involved now, there is hope for a safe and sound environment in their future.  Here, you will learn how to help your child’s school go green. 1.    The first thing that you can do to encourage your child’s school to go green is to meet with the principal and other advisors at the school community, including the superintendent.  You should stress to them the importance of taking an active role in the community efforts to live in an earth-friendly manner.  In addition to the benefits that will take place to the environment, it is important to ...
7 August, 2009 by Green Life Staff Categories :
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Greening your School

Dwindling financial resources have brought metropolitan school districts to their knees, cutting elective studies, losing athletics programs, and silencing music.  In some cities and rural areas the effects are even more troubling as schools are closed and students are crammed into shrinking classrooms.  Schools are frantically searching for viable ways to reduce overhead by more effectively managing their resources, and everyone can help. Many school administrators think that they’ve effectively drained the pool of potential cost cutting and green measures, but green ideas are emerging up from untapped springs of student creativity.  Here are a few favorites: Landscape maintenance:  Families volunteer for weekend duties like weeding, trash collecting and seasonal maintenance.  Some resourceful parents even take their lawn tractors to the school to maintain playing fields.  Science and environmentally minded teachers rotate weekends with the families to keep the team focused and manage the legal requirements from the school district’s standpoint.  These “grassroots” groups are tossing out the chemical cocktails utilized by the commercial industry in favor of natural herbicides, fungicides and insecticides. Janitorial services:  Students are getting involved in cleaning up the cesspool of toxic agents traditionally used by school maintenance crews.  Science ...