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		<title>Homemade Cloth Diapers</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 22 Jun 2009 03:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It never occurred to me to create my own diapers&#8211;partially due to the fact that I have a complete lack of sewing skills and also because it seemed so complicated.  Imagine my surprise when my friend Kara casually handed me a bag of home-sewn hemp diapers saying only, &#8220;I made this for you since I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>No Nursery for Baby</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Jun 2009 02:00:58 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We haven’t picked out colors, or bedding, or painted a fairy mural on the wall.  In fact, our second child has no claim to any wall&#8211;or even a room for that matter. Why have we allowed this to happen?  After all, with our first we decorated with homemade curtains, a rocking chair and a new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Thrifty Green Thursday Goes on Summer Vacation</title>
		<link>http://greenbabyguide.com/2009/06/10/thrifty-green-thursday-goes-on-summer-vacation/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 11 Jun 2009 03:00:36 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;ve had a great time hosting Thrifty Green Thursday for almost a whole year. Thanks to everyone who has participated, inspiring us with eco-friendly tips and advice. Because I just gave birth on Monday, I&#8217;ve decided to put our Thrifty Green blog carnival on summer vacation. While we&#8217;re gone, we hope we can sort out [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ingenious Ideas for Thrifty Organic Gardening</title>
		<link>http://greenbabyguide.com/2009/06/03/ingenious-ideas-for-thrifty-organic-gardening/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Jun 2009 03:00:09 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you haven&#8217;t joined the grassroots home garden movement, it&#8217;s nice to know you still can&#8211;and without spending a load of cash.  Last week&#8217;s post featured several ways to get your hands on free materials. Today we interview a family who has managed to set up six raised beds while parenting two children under three [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Finding Free Garden Supplies</title>
		<link>http://greenbabyguide.com/2009/05/27/finding-free-garden-supplies/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 May 2009 03:00:13 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Imagine creating a kitchen garden that yields heaps of produce all summer long—for free!  Thanks to our recent family budget cutbacks and some wise neighbors, we’ve suddenly found that free gardening is quite possible.  Here are the latest tips we’ve discovered: Find free wood, recycle what you have, or just dump dirt:  When our friends [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Budget-Friendly Solutions for Family Leave With Baby</title>
		<link>http://greenbabyguide.com/2009/05/20/budget-friendly-solutions-for-family-leave-with-baby/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 21 May 2009 03:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Skip this post if you live in Canada, Denmark, Australia, France, or any one of 163 countries worldwide with paid maternity leave.  We’ll try not to think about the fact that in those nations mothers and fathers get months and sometimes even years of paid time to raise their children.  Here in the U.S., it’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Advocating for Family Leave Time</title>
		<link>http://greenbabyguide.com/2009/05/13/advocating-for-family-leave-time/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 14 May 2009 03:00:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It was heart-wrenching to go back to my career after my baby arrived, but luckily I had worked out a solution that gave me as much time off as possible over the course of his first year.  It required some creative thinking, some begging, and some negotiation, but it was worth it! As you may [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Suddenly Frugal By Necessity, Not By Choice</title>
		<link>http://greenbabyguide.com/2009/05/06/suddenly-frugal-by-necessity-not-by-choice/</link>
		<comments>http://greenbabyguide.com/2009/05/06/suddenly-frugal-by-necessity-not-by-choice/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 07 May 2009 02:00:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Upon hearing that my husband was laid off a few weeks ago, both of us found ourselves surprised by our own relief.  Obviously for many families losing a job can be tremendously stressful—especially with young children involved.  In fact, if my husband would have been laid off a few months later we would have been in [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Simple, Eco-Friendly Solution for Stinky Diapers: Use Hydrogen Peroxide in Place of Chlorine Bleach</title>
		<link>http://greenbabyguide.com/2009/04/29/a-simple-eco-friendly-solution-for-stinky-diapers/</link>
		<comments>http://greenbabyguide.com/2009/04/29/a-simple-eco-friendly-solution-for-stinky-diapers/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 30 Apr 2009 02:00:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Have you ever pulled supposedly clean diapers out of the washer only to find that they’re nearly as stinky as when they went in?  What’s the problem?  It could be a variety of factors including the iron content in your water, the laundry soap you’re using, or synthetic fabrics.  The other day I stumbled across [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Making Homemade Non-Chlorine Bleach</title>
		<link>http://greenbabyguide.com/2009/04/22/making-homemade-non-chlorine-bleach/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2009 02:00:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>joy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mildew is my nemesis, but I much prefer it to the fumes of chlorinated bleach. Even though chlorine is very hard on the environment and our health, it’s found in a wide variety of household cleaners—all of which I’ve now replaced with homemade versions.  The one hurdle we hadn’t quite overcome was bleach. So the [...]]]></description>
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