In our grandma’s and great grandma’s day, what we now call “Green” was simply commonsense. I spent the last week in Georgia with my lovely in-laws (yes, I’m one of those rare women who adores her mother-in-law!), and our bedroom was filled with the most gorgeous hand-stitched quilts that her mother made years ago. When I think about the time that it must have taken to sit and painstakingly stitch tablecloths, napkins, and queen-size bed quilts, I am beyond impressed. I can barely to get it together to sew missing buttons on my daughter’s school uniform, however, I’m realizing that I’ve got to get with the crafty thing to be truly green. Our grandparents didn’t throw things away either. Electronics were made on home soil and made well - made to last, unlike the short life-span that’s purposely built into everything we buy today. I wanted to make a smoothie out of the incredible Read the rest of this entry »