It is official; Downtown Newnan will soon be home to a community garden that will be tended to by the citizens of our fair city.  Restore Coweta is a wonderful local organization that was formed in 2009 for the purposes of advancing and helping people in need within the county.  Restore Coweta’s current project is a community garden at Perry Street and Salbide... [Read more...]

Have you had a chance to go to Mainstreet Newnan’s Market Day yet?  Market Day is the first Saturday of the month, from April to December, when over 60 vendors from all over the South East offer up the best home grown and hand made products. There are a lot of great reasons, as outlined by Muesli Fusion, to shop at a local market when you have the opportunity. ... [Read more...]

Getting ready to send your student back to school can be stressful.  Whether it be immunizations, PTA membership, sports or club registration or the mere fact that many students don't want to go (I confess I was in the latter category), you've got your hands full.  With everything that is going on, buying green school supplies are probably pretty... [Read more...]

We've all heard about going green.   Usually it has to do with cars, houses, and household items but there are lifestyle choices we can make that are green as well.  Seriously, you can also go green with your fashion accessories! Here are some tips from Planet Green that show how you can go green with purses and such: 1. Pick a good vintage Instead... [Read more...]

We've all been told about respecting nature when we are out camping.  We don't litter, we make sure the extinguish the fire completely, we don't leave food sitting around and leave the campsite in better condition that how we found it. But there is a greener way to camp.  Renting camping equipment.  Lots of local outdoor shops have camping gear to... [Read more...]

I recently acquired bamboo cutting boards and totally love them!  I never really thought about cutting boards until I needed to buy some new ones and I really didn't think much about the materials.  I mean it isn't like cutting board manufacturers are cutting down old-growth sections of the Amazon to make them- that I would have heard about that and been... [Read more...]

Earth Day is tomorrow and there will lots of attention paid to our environment and that got me to thinking, what about the other 364 days of the year?  So with that in mind, I found three easy things you can do for the environment all year long.  And when I say easy I mean easy- we're not talking living in a tepee with no electricity- we're talking super... [Read more...]

Starbucks is offering up free coffee to everyone who shows up with a reusable travel mug today.  They are hoping that customers will reduce the amount of waste created with our daily caffeine fix by rewarding those  of us who use travel mugs rather than paper cups.  So all you have to do is grab your favorite travel mug and go pick up some free joe. ... [Read more...]

I stumbled onto this great company out in Colorado that makes gear and accessories out of recycled materials.  They specifically make a line of bags and wallets out of recycled inner tubes that are really neat.  The company is called Green Guru Gear and they repurpose old bike tires into some pretty swank totes.  I prefer to buy recycled materials rather... [Read more...]

Top Ten Reasons to Recycle 1. Good for our Economy Manufacturing companies rely on recycling programs to provide the raw materials they need to make new products. 2. Creates Jobs Recycling in the U.S. is a $236 billion a year industry. More than 56,000 recycling and reuse enterprises employ 1.1 million workers nationwide. 3. Reduces Waste The average... [Read more...]

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