Eating in season and buying locally is one of the best things you can do for the environment - and your taste buds. However, it’s easier said than done. For one thing, whenever I open a cookbook, the recipes staring back at me are full of ingredients that are not in season and not local. If you have similar challenges finding good recipes with ingredients that are in season, then check out What’s Cooking Weekly - an e-mail subscription service that delivers 5 healthy and seasonal family menus to your inbox each week, plus recipes and grocery lists, nutritional information for meals, and tips to involve children. Eating seasonally has never been easier!
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In honor of EcoMoms Act “Meat-Free Challenge” week, we have a yummy sample recipe from What’s Cooking Weekly below - vegetarian, of course, and loaded with seasonal ingredients and tips on how to involve the kids. Buon Appetite!
I was recently shocked to find out that, on average, each school-age child generates 
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Recently featured as one of 
Where I live, finding a way to recycle my soda cans is easy enough. But when it comes to recycling things like batteries and cell phones, I’m never sure where to go. So I was happy to find Earth 911 — a great resource for anyone who is looking for a local recycling center. Just go to the homepage and enter your zip code. You can narrow the search to find recycling centers for more than twenty types of items - from antifreeze and asbestos to toys and televisions. And hey, remember that old cell phone your kid dropped in the toilet last year? Now you can finally recycle it!
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I thought that carrying my newborn around would be a breeze. How hard could carrying around an eight pound little bundle be? Turns out an eight pound bundle can get awfully heavy when you’re carrying him around 24/7! Luckily, a friend offered to lend me her Moby Wrap. I had used a pouch sling before, but never a wrap. It took me a while to get the hang of it, but once I did, I loved it. There are 
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