When you’re keeping a family going, it can feel like you’re constantly restocking on household goods. Do you have enough paper towels? What about diapers? And who could forget all of the laundry detergent? Thanks to a limited-time program from P&G at Sam’s Club, you can save money on the essentials that keep you, your family and your household running while giving back.

To help you get ready for summer, P&G is offering more than $35 in Instant Savings on your go-to items at Sam’s Club: Tide Pods with Oxi for deep cleaning after summer fun, Pampers Swaddlers Diapers for a happy baby or Olay Regenerist Microsculpting Cream for a little self-care!

P&G isn’t just saving families money—they’re also giving back to charities including Operation Homefront, United Way and Feeding America. All you have to do is scan your Sam’s Club receipt containing at least one P&G item at PGGoodEveryday.com, pick your charity and P&G does the rest.

With the help of P&G Good Everyday, P&G has already donated 238,307 baths to oil-covered birds, 131,896 educational packets to United Way and planted over 13,000 trees through the Arbor Day Foundation! 

Now when you shop for everyday items you love, you can save money and do good. Load up on your favorite products at your local Sam’s Club or samsclub.com before June 13, pick a charity and scan your receipt at PGGoodEveryday.com!

Sponsored by P&G at Sam’s Club

With Arbor Day right around the corner, a group of AccuWeather employers decided to celebrate early by planting a Dwarf Alberta Spruce in front of their State College, Pennsylvania office building. If you’re wondering why an office tree-planting party got so much attention, read on for the deets on what the AccuWeather team did to up the adorable factor and make Arbor Day even more fun!

So why did the PA-based office staff decide to green their outdoor area? When the AccuWeather team brainstormed ways to celebrate both Earth and Arbor Days, they landed on an action that would help the environment in several seriously significant ways—planting a tree.

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After planting the tree, the team decided their new addition needed a name. Instead of nicknaming the Dwarf Alberta Spruce themselves, they came up with a few potential ideas for the general public (that’s you!) to choose from.

The oh-so-creatively cute names include Spruce Springsteen, Alberta Clipper, Forrest Stump, Treeyoncé, and Albus Dumbledwarf. Obviously the majority of the names are based in pop culture, with one exception. Unlike Spruce Springsteen or Forest Stump, Alberta Clipper doesn’t come from a music icon or epic movie. The folks at AccuWeather are, of course, majorly into all things atmospheric. An Alberta Clipper is a winter storm system that starts in or near Alberta, Canada and sweeps down into the United States, quickly spreading cold Canadian air and snow.

How can you vote for your fave name? Visit the AccuWeather website for more info on picking the company’s newest tree’s name!

—Erica Loop

Featured photo: JuergenPM via Pixabay

 

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Crawling, walking, touching and feeling. Your home is a hot bed for your child’s curiosity to abound, but it also means that keeping your household healthy and safe is extra important once your kids are on the move. Grove Collaborative shares your mission. They’re a customizable auto-shipment service, which delivers a wide array of sustainable household and personal care essentials that are great for you and your family, your home and the planet, too. Read on to discover why this is one collaboration you definitely want to join.

New customers who spend $20 get a FREE Home Essentials Kit, a $30 value.

What Grove Collaborative Is All About
From the hand soap we use to the lip balm we wear when we kiss our babes, it takes energy to ensure everything we use is safe, natural and, ideally, reasonably priced. Grove Collaborative’s Grove Standard shares these same principles. All of Grove’s products are healthy and effective, eco-friendly and affordable.

As a parent and consumer, you can rest assured that Grove has already checked every ingredient and tested each product in order to tell you how it aligns with their Grove Values—perhaps for being Non-GMO, Paraben-free or for using responsible packaging—and exactly what they love about it (shade-grown, solar-roasted coffee, anyone?). Translation: Grove did the research for you, which means you can use that energy to spend on actual homework.

How It Works
Shop the leading natural brands like Mrs. Meyer’s, Method and Zarbee’s and discover new ones like Counter Culture, Full Circle and Earth Mama Organics, to name a few. With customizable shipments, that healthy lifestyle we all strive for is accessible and effortless. Here are a few reasons why Grove Collaborative will make your life easier:

• You control refills, frequency of delivery (the default is monthly), and adjust what you receive as you go. They’ll even send you convenient monthly reminders to restock so you never run out.

• There is no requirement to order every month and you set the frequency of product shipments. For example, designate Method Laundry Detergent to arrive every two months, but ask for Seventh Generation Baby Wipes to ship every month.

• When your home care package arrives, it contains just what you need, when you need it. No surprises here and no last-minute trips to the store.

• Everyone in the family has been thought of, including dads and pets, too!

What’s Inside Your Box
Grove Collaborative isn’t just imagining a better world for our kids, but they’re creating a reality where every product we use can actually be good for the planet. That global philosophy is distilled into our homes whenever Grove’s healthy household essentials arrive at the door, such as cleaning products for the house, bath soap for baby, biodegradable bandages for the kids, or some Nourishing Coconut Skin Superfood by the Grove Collaborative brand just for you. Whether you’re already a seasoned natural products guru or looking to learn more about sustainability, Grove is an easy and enjoyable one-stop shop.

Other Perks of Going Green with Grove Collaborative
One way Grove offsets the carbon footprint that comes with shipping is by dedicating a portion of every shipment to the Arbor Day Foundation. Their goal is an impressive one—to plant one million new trees over the next three years. Grove’s packaging also prioritizes post-consumer materials and has helped to earn Grove Collaborative its Certified B Corporation status for doing good for people, animals, communities and the planet. And, the fact that your first order ships for free is a pretty sweet perk, too.

New customers who spend $20 get a FREE Home Essentials Kit, a $30 value.

— Jennifer Massoni Pardini

all photos courtesy of Grove Collaborative

Today Is Arbor Day

 

Daily
Today Is Arbor Day
Make like a tree.
1

Wood you believe these cool games can be played with sticks, leaves and other tree parts you can come by without going out on a limb?

2

Log one or all 20 epic treehouses
on to your bucket list of family destinations.

3
If you don’t know your ash from a hole in a log, you definitely need
this tree ID app.

{ Today’s ideas brought to you by The Lorax }

Your kiddos play beneath their shade all summer long, and you have aspiring dreams of building a fortress among the leaves. No doubt about it, trees are pretty awesome. Living beings that produce over half of the fresh air we breathe, there’s reason to celebrate their lofty reach. In honor of Arbor Day, we’ve complied a gallery of the coolest trees in the world. Read about an ancient bristlecone pine tree in California, a Guinness World Record cashew tree in Brazil and more breathtaking beauties below.

Ancient Bristlecone Pine Tree – Secret Location in Ca, United States

The grandaddy of them all---this ancient wonder is more than 46 centuries old and said to be the world’s oldest living thing. It maintains life by letting dying parts fall off so it can sustain a single living branch and regrow from there. Think of it like the Benjamin Button of all trees; talk about a cool dinner conversation with your budding ecologist. Find out more about the history at PBS.

photo: Achim via flickr

Which tree is your favorite? Let us know in the Comments below! 

— Christal Yuen