Green Moms Carnival
Welcome to the home page of the Green Moms Carnival! Here you can find links to past carnivals, find out about upcoming carnivals, learn a bit about the amazing women behind The Green Moms Carnival, and discover why we created the Green Moms Carnival. And don’t forget to follow our Shorty Award winning Twitter account @greenmoms!
Current and Upcoming Green Moms Carnivals
June 24th - Green Moms Spill Their Eco-Secrets at The Green Parent
July 13th - Food Matters - Eco Village Musings
August 3rd - Back to School/Green Schools - OrganicMania
September 14th - Conserving Resources - Mindful Momma
October 5th - Green Standards - In Women We Trust
November 2nd - TBD - Green-Talk
November 16th - Saving Money through Green Means - Condo Blues
December 7th - Greener Traditions - Green Phone Booth
January 11th, 2010 - Green Resolutions - Non Toxic Kids
February 8, 2010 - Coal - Retro Housewife Goes Green
Submission Deadlines & Guidelines
Check out the prior month’s carnival for a description of the next month’s carnival topic. Post about the topic on your blog and submit your link with a brief description of the post, the post url, and your name to greenmomscarnival at gmail dot com as soon as possible after posting, but no later than the last Monday in the month prior to the carnival month. Due to the large number of submissions, we cannot guarantee that your post will be selected. Selections are made by the blogger hosting that specific carnival. We try to run carnivals on or about the first Monday of each month. We skip to the second Monday in months starting with a Monday holiday. Sometimes we also run “special” carnivals on hot topics.
Archives
June 5th - World Environment Day and World Oceans Day at The Smart Mama
May - Gardening with the Green Moms hosted by Green and Clean Mom
April 14th - Throwing up Plastic hosted by Fake Plastic Fish
April 1st - “The Toxic Tub” hosted by Green and Clean Mom
March - Spring Cleaning hosted by TinyChoices
February — I believe...hosted by The Smart Mama
January 2009 - Global Warming hosted by The Not Quite Crunchy Parent
December 15th - Going Green for the Holidays hosted by The Smart Mama
December 7th - Green Moms Urge Obama to Adopt Prevention Agenda hosted by Big Green Purse
November - Gratitude/Favorite Green Things hosted by Best of Mother Earth
October 6th - Commercialization of the Holidays hosted by Green Bean Dreams
September 7th - Back to School Edition hosted by Surely You Nest
August 4th, 2008 - Global Warming hosted by OrganicMania - First Carnival
Members of the Green Moms Carnival (*Denotes Founding Member)
- Arduous
- Best of Mother Earth*
- Big Green Purse*
- CondoBlues
- Crunchy Chicken*
- Crunchy Domestic Goddess
- Eco ‘Burban*
- Enviromom*
- Fake Plastic Fish
- Foodie Tots
- Going Green*
- Gray Matters*
- Green and Clean Mom*
- Green Bean Dreams*
- Green Jersey
- GreenPhoneBooth*
- Green Style Mom*
- Green Talk*
- In Women We Trust*
- Itsabelly
- La Marguerite*
- Milkweed Mercantile/Eco-Village Musings
- Mindful Momma*
- More Green Moms
- Non Toxic Kids
- OrganicMania*
- RetroHousewife Goes Green
- SafeMama
- Surely You Nest*
- The Green Parent*
- Tiny Choices
- The Not Quite Crunchy Parent*
- The Smart Mama*
Mission
To unite bloggy voices around one environmentally-conscious theme per month, knowing that if we repeat the same green messages at the same time, it increases the likelihood that our eco-conscious messages will be heard, understood and adopted by more people.
Green-Talk’s Tribute Video to The Green Moms Carnival
Why a Green Moms Carnival?
Well, as La Marguerite so aptly put it, “Moms need to have a bigger role in the climate discourse. We are talking about Mother Earth after all. The qualities that come to us as mothers, as in giving, protecting, nurturing, and sustaining life, are the same ones that are needed to remedy climate change.” Read more here.
History
It all started when I wondered why Guy Kawasaki’s Alltop had a list of top green blogs that did not include Green Mom bloggers. After all, Moms not only control the household purse strings, but we’re largely responsible for raising the next generation and influencing their adoption of green, eco-friendly habits.
I put together a list of what I considered to be the top Green Mom blogs, using Technorati’s “Magic Middle” ranking as a guideline. Next, I proposed that Alltop launch a new category – Green Moms. Alltop accepted all of us and added us to green.alltop.com
Then I set about contacting the Moms. Some I knew well, but a few were new to me. We started an email list and had a great time emailing back and forth. Then Alana of GrayMatters mentioned that it would be a shame to lose contact, and that we should think of a joint project. That’s when I proposed the Green Moms Carnival…and we were off and running. Very soon we added our “Mothers of the Earth” – some other fantastic green women bloggers who are not Moms, such as Beth of Fake Plastic Fish, Karina and Jenn of Tiny Choices, and Mary Hunt of In Women We Trust. And as soon as we publicized the carnival, we received submissions from “fans of Moms” and “sons of Moms” so we included them too!
Please join our carnivals or help spread the word! (Please bear with us if we don’t respond right away…this is an all-volunteer effort ).
Lynn
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Looking forward to participating. I just recently heard the term blog “carnival” and was hoping to come across just the right one. Sounds like this is it!
Thanks for starting it.
Warmly,
Lynn
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Greetings,
I completely missed the beginnings of this! Please include Non-Toxic Kids in all the fun. We’re a green parenting blog focused on raising kids naturally and chemical free. I’d love to host a carnival, to participate, and support the Green Carnival.
Thanks and happy holidays,
Katy
http://www.non-toxickids.net
What about green dads? I am married to a green mom ya know! I live in Idaho where,believe it or not, most think that global warming is a farce. It is an uphil battle.
We love Green Dads - you are welcome to participate! This month’s carnival is on Global Warming. Just get your post in to greenmomscarnival at gmail dot com by January 10th! Thanks for stopping by! Sorry to hear about your battles - the climate naysayers are everywhere. It would be interesting to share your experiences with us! — Lynn
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I co-started an on and offline network of women in green business and beyond in August last year called Green Sisters, to enable communication and collaboration to create a sustainable future now! If any of you ladies would like to join Green Sisters please send me your email address and I will send you an invitation.
My email is katie@onegreenearth.com
All best and Happy New Year
Katie
Being an organic and green mom myself, I’d like to join Green Moms Carnival and help spread the word.
How do I sign-up?
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Thanks for organizing such a fantastic resource like the carnival. I’m looking forward to reading everyone’s spring cleaning ideas!
I would love to be a part of the carnival and have submitted my post to Jenn at Tiny Choices. Could I please be added to the blogroll? Also, am I allowed to put the carnival banner on my blog?
Yes and yes! Welcome aboard! Look forward to getting to know you, Jenni! I love Canada, by the way! — Lynn
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