Growing Green Families gives you easy strategies for you to "go green" and provide a safer environment for your family. It includes numerous ways for you to reduce environment toxins in your home by making simple changes in the products you use. Master herbalist Donna Walls provides lists of safe products and many easy recipes to make your own using natural ingredients. Growing Green Families includes natural alternatives for personal care and housecleaning products, organic strategies for your yard, and how to shop for healthier food. When it comes to keeping your family healthy, every bit counts. Growing Green Families gives you the tools you need to make that first step towards a healthier lifestyle. "A must for families looking for a healthier way of life." Connie Livingston, RN, President, Perinatal Education Associates, author, Innovative Teaching for Birth Professionals and Creating and Marketing your Birth-Related Business "Donna presents down-to-earth help for a healthier environment." Yvonne Dunphey, Cox Arboretum and Gardens

Professor, author, researcher and couple and family therapist Saliha Bava, PhD, and her husband, author and illustrator Mark Greene share the core ideas of relational thinking through comics, fables and powerful articles, charting a playful and transformative path to growing our children's relational intelligence."Growing our children's relationship super powers is the joyful cure for what ails our angry, disconnected culture."-Micheal Kasdan, The Good Men Project"Life-changing, culture-shaping ideas ... I was smiling, highlighting, imagining how I could use this to equip teachers and parents with new insights and understandings and SUPER POWERS. The theory masterfully bridges what I know from my work as an early childhood teacher right through to my new field of guidance and counseling."-Bronwyn Leiataua

We analyze inventions in green energy technologies over the period 2005-2017. We use a novel dataset, making use of the IPC Green Inventory of the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) to analyze four broad categories of green energy technologies including alternative energy production technologies, energy conservation technologies, and green transportation. We use these data to look at how patent families and PCT international patent applications have evolved in this field in recent years. We find that energy innovation-related patenting has first expanded exponentially up until 2013, both in terms of the total number of patent families and PCT international patent applications in green energy technologies. Yet this period of accelerated growth in the number of published green energy patents has been followed by a period of deceleration—even a slow decline. Although most green energy technologies have seen a downward trend in the annual number of patents published since 2012, the decline has been most pronounced in nuclear power generation technologies and alternative energy production technologies. The latter notably include renewable energy technologies, such as solar and wind energy, and fuel cells. In contrast, patents in energy conservation technologies and green transportation technologies have continued to grow, but at a slower pace.

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