by Julie Hall and Sarah Lane
With the launch of ProgressiveKid Reader, we are taking the next logical step in the progression of ProgressiveKid. Five years ago, at a time when people were still catching on to recycling, we opened PK as a way to connect people with a more mindful way of life. We offered Earth-friendly alternatives to conventional products, information for socially aware living, and affirming messages for a happier and healthier generation of kids. We alerted parents about lead in children’s lunchboxes before it hit the mass media. …

25 Green and Cheap Ways to Live
by Sarah Lane
As the struggle in the economic markets rages on, you can feel confident that your family’s particular financial concerns are pretty much irrelevant in any specific plans to slow down the slide of our economy into a likely recession. We regular people (a.k.a. nongazillionaires) are simply going to have to take care of ourselves and each other. And when it comes down to it, making like Buddha and saying to yourself (I’m paraphrasing here), “I don’t have any control over it anyway,” …

by Julie Hall
We all need to find ways to make our lives greener, for our own health, the ecological health of our world, and energy conservation. Your kitchen is one of the most important and effective places to go green or greener, as the case may be. Here is a sure-fire twelve-step-program toward a greener kitchen lifestyle:
12 Steps to a Greener Kitchen

Don’t eat your pot. Use nonreactive (inert) or moderately reactive cookware, such as Enamel, Earthenware, stainless steel, or cast iron. Avoid Teflon and aluminum. The jury is still out …

by Sarah Lane
It’s official: Fish & Wildlife officials are getting ready to kill sea lions in the Columbia River because the sea lions are killing salmon, and we like salmon better than sea lions. (Salmon: Good. Sea lions: Bad.) FYI: We humans are killing salmon too, but thankfully the sea lions aren’t coming after us yet. The problem is that salmon are endangered (mostly because of us) and the sea lions are really good at consuming ginormous quantities of them all at once, threatening salmon even more.
In 2008, the Humane …