What a glorious and empowering week it’s been in green-blogger land! 

Crunchy Domestic Goddess has helped to shut down an offensive Motrin ad just by posting a few blogs voicing her opinion. The ad referred to baby-wearing (i.e., using a sling) as something that’s “in fashion” but horribly painful.  You’ll have to read the entire text of the ad to catch its condescending spirit, but it was pretty awful.  Within hours of blogging about it, this is the email that Crunchy Domestic Goddess received directly from the company.  Bravo! 

We also have to commend EnviroMom for being featured on Nightline in a story about household waste reduction.  Since Heather and Renee started the One Can a Month Challenge, they’ve been doling out great tips that have impacted hundreds if not thousands of families.  Check out their Nightline clip here. 

Since not all of our green actions provide press coverage, No Impact Man, Colin Beavan suggests that we choose some obvious ways to make simple green statements.  He uses only a repurposed glass jar with a screw top lid for carrying tap water or hot coffee.  This simple green action apparently shocks and interests dozens of people on a regular basis, which gives him an opportunity to share a bit about green living. Since small, obvious steps are what it takes to make a ripple in the social consciousness, he recommends that we go for “making a spectacle of living green.”

Speaking of spectacles, we had our thirty seconds of fame this week when one of our local papers, The Register Guard, ran an article in their sustainable living section about our blog.  What an honor!

It’s great to be part of such an innovative group of bloggers who are helping other parents make simple eco-friendly changes.  Whether or not you get any attention for it, I hope you realize that each cold trip out to the compost bin and every week that you sort the recycling, you are changing the world too!

Next week we shall suspend Thrifty Green Thursday for the Thanksgiving holiday so that we can focus our energies on consuming as much pie as possible.  We’ll be back the following week with more eco-friendly, budget friendly tips and we hope you’ll join us then.