Sustainable on Shine

Delia Montgomery Author Archive for Green Options Blog, Conducive + Social Media

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Delia, d/b/a Chic Eco, enjoys freelance writing about environmental design, fashion and art, ― from both consumer and supplier perspectives. 2009 mid June launched

Mommy Greenest Gets Religion

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After my brush with pagan paranoia and subsequent realization that when it comes to drinking the clear waters of meditation I am the cloudy cup, my search for a spiritual place to support my family lead…

Can Halloween Exist Without High Fructose Corn Syrup and Styrofoam Gravestones?

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In the interest of full disclosure, I have to tell you that I actually wrote the majority of this post last year. And not that I'm so brilliant or anything, but I wanted to run it again to highlight the fact that despite a bout of

DIY An Eco-Essential Scrub & Mask That Delivers Serious Glow in Minutes—For Pennies!

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It’s not like I’m some crazy Birkenstock wearing woman who uses The Rock on her underarms. I like lipstick as much as the next girl—I just like to know mine’s lead-free. Think I’m kidding? Go to the Environmental Working Group’s

Reading, Writing and…Pesticides?

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What a month. After desperate, late-night trips in search of third-grades’ perfect notebook and fifth-grades’ essential pencil sharpener (“Not that one, this one!”) and endless potty pleadings with the toddler (only to realize that her new school doesn’t require it), I finally got the kids…

Eco-friendly solutions ... inspired by worms!

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Tom Szaky started out as a young man with a dream and a whole lot of . . . worm poop. Really! He first encountered a worm composter as a student at Princeton, and once he saw how organic fertilizer was born, he was hooked.

Boycott Vogue! The Anachronistic “September Issue” Shows Us How Far We’ve Come

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“There’s always a way to wear fur”

--Anna Wintour, Editor-in-Chief, American Vogue

“Anna is the most powerful woman in the U.S.”

--Andre Leon Talley, Editor-at-Large, American Vogue

“Nobody was wearing fur until Anna put it on the cover in the…

Lady, Drop the Cheese Puffs and Walk Away: Enter the Insanity Cycle

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OctoMom has 14 kids. I have three. Yet those three—plus the demands of life, work and marriage—may be making me just as crazy. Not insane enough to have another brood of babies, mind you. (Although once you have three, what’s another 11 more?) But crazy enough to:

Seriously…

Lice as Communication—Yes, You Read That Right.

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And so the war continues. If you’ve been reading MG for a while, you’ll remember that last year, right around this time, my daughter came home from school with a lice…