Sweet Greens
Your Earth Friendly Guide to All Things Green | Green Parenting | Eco Kids | Green Families
Looking for a great treat to enjoy on the weekend – look no further than the mister’s vegan blueberry ice cream smoothie. It is perfection!
Ingredients:
Blend until smooth and enjoy.
I love sugar scrubs, they are great for your feet and body in the summertime and feel so nice and refreshing. You can make your own sugar scrubs for a fraction of the store cost and with organic items, you will find in your kitchen. Read on to make a citrusy lemon sugar scrub to polish up your summer skin.
Ingredients:
Preparation:
Mix all of the ingredients together and store in a reusable container. My favorite jar is a small fat glass mustard style jar. When you are ready to enjoy, rub over your body, scrub, and rinse. If you have sensitive skin, as I do, avoid your face and areas that you recently shaved.
If your house is like most, you have lots of broken crayon pieces in the art bin. Here is a fun way to recycle those broken pieces into new fun chunky crayons.
Instructions:
1. Gather all of the broken crayon pieces and remove the paper and break into smaller pieces.
2. Spray a mini muffin tin with vegetable oil (you could also use a candy or soap mold) and fill each spot to the top with different colors crayon pieces.
3. Bake at 275° for 8 minutes. Remove them from the oven and swirl with a toothpick if you would like or leave them as is.
4. Let cool and pop them out.
These are perfect for smaller hands and are so much fun to make with your children. We use these in goodies bags for birthday parties and holidays.
Are you interested in becoming a Sweet Greens sponsor? To get started, let me tell you a little more about me. Besides being the owner and editor of Sweet Greens, I also write sustainable living posts for Cascadian Farm and Applegate Farms and green parenting, children’s how-to projects, and green design posts for Inhabitots. I am also a member of the Target Inner Circle where I share an insider’s look at the ways Target is committed to environmental sustainability, education, community safety, and healthy living. I am helping to educate others and improve the eating habits of families across the country via my partnership with Stonyfield.
Sweet Greens was started as a way to share my green lifestyle ideas with others. As the mother of one little boy, I understand what is influential when it comes to shaping the next generation. With coverage of green family lifestyle tips, green parenting tips, green do-it-yourself projects, green how-to projects for kids, eco-friendly product reviews, recipes, and giveaways – Sweet Greens offers eco-conscious families a curated guide to raising a family that is happy, healthy and green.
In the News: Sweet Greens won the Most Popular Story and Readers’ Choice Award at Inhabitots! My article 5 Easy Craft Projects that Reuse Orange Juice Cartons won Inhabitots’s Editors’ Favorite and Readers’ Choice Award. My article 6 Essentials to Pack in Your Child’s Lunch Box won the Inhabitots’s Editors’ Favorite and Readers’ Choice Award. I am also responsible for writing Earth Day, Every Day for Cascadian Farm’s monthly newsletter, and Sweet Greens was just named one of the 100 Best Organic Living Blogs. You can see more press, interviews, articles, and awards here.
What do I write about?
– Green Lifestyle Tips for Families
– Green Do-It-Yourself Family Projects
– Green How-To Projects for Kids
– Organic, Vegan and Vegetarian Recipes
– Green Product Reviews + Giveaways
– Green Design for Families
– Green Design for Kids
Sweet Greens readers are young, eco-conscious families who are interested in the best green ideas to incorporate into their family lifestyle and have a major influence amongst their friends and acquaintances. Sweet Greens audience has a high percentage of females with an emphasis on young, affluent families.
75% FEMALE | 25% MALE
80% BETWEEN THE AGES OF 18-39
34% EARN MORE THAN 100,000 ANNUALLY
Sweet Greens has grown quickly into an incredible community of green-minded individuals and I expect to continue to grow quickly as more people become interested in living a green lifestyle.
Here are some ways I work with sponsors:
BANNER + TEXT ADVERTISING
NEWSLETTER SPONSORSHIPS
PRODUCT REVIEWS + GIVEAWAYS
EDITORIAL SPONSORSHIPS
SOCIAL MEDIA CAMPAIGNS
FACEBOOK + TWITTER PARTIES
CUSTOM CAMPAIGNS
If you are interested in working with Sweet Greens, please contact me directly at hellojennielyon@gmail.com. I will be happy to answer any questions that you have, send you my media kit and look forward to creating a green partnership with you.
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Terra Pass allows you to use carbon offsets to lighten your carbon footprint, by purchasing a carbon offset pass. A Terra Pass offsets the carbon pollution that comes from your car, air travel, or home energy use and is very affordable.
The carbon offset doesn’t stop the pollution that is made but there’s real green power being put into the grid and the green power offsets the carbon power you are using. If we all started offsetting our carbon footprint, utility companies will start to shut down the dirty power plants and start to use green energy instead.
Check out Terra Pass and leave me a note telling me what you think.