I’ve written before about the many joys of baking soda, but there’s an entire book out there dedicated to “Resourceful and Ingenious Uses of Baking Soda.” It’s free online, so feel free to check it out. (via The Simple Dollar)
Verda Vivo posted “50 ways to help the planet” today. I noted that I have switched [...]
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Friday wrap-up:
Posted in Eating, Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, food, recycling, waste, tagged 50 ways to help the planet, baking soda, compost, cotton swabs, farmer's market, food, Gilmore Girls, hog, napkins, pigs, prices, stir sticks, Yale on May 30, 2008 | 4 Comments »
90% reduction update
Posted in Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, Shopping, carbon, energy, food, local, money, paper, recycling, thrift, utilities, waste, water, tagged 90 percent reduction, 90% reduction, electricity, food, garbage, gas, recycling, reduce, reuse, riot for austerity, waste, water on May 29, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Organic Needle reminded me to do an update on our performance during the Riot for Austerity, which I started 10 months ago. This is the 90 percent challenge that I’ve mentioned on this blog — with the goal of cutting consumption by 90 percent from U.S. average consumption.
Here’s the update on what I did and [...]
How about 235 mpg?
Posted in carbon, waste, tagged 1l, autos, cars, fuel, green car, hybrid, mileage, volkswagen, vw on May 29, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Last week, I wrote about a forthcoming hybrid vehicle from Honda. Some of the comments concerned the fact that today’s hybrids scarcely get better mileage than some vehicles got in the 1970s, 1980s and early 1990s — hardly enough to justify their higher expense.
How about a VW that gets 235 miles to the gallon? That [...]
Really cheap? Want to do Wife Swap?
Posted in Fun, tagged ABC, cheap, coupons, families, frugal dad, reality, tv, wife swap on May 28, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Frugal Dad today posted a call for participants for the show “Wife Swap.” You get $20,000 for torturing your family — but some people are into that!
They are especially looking for families into clipping coupons.
Potential families can live anywhere in the United States, but we ask that families applying for the show consist of two [...]
Plastic bags passe?
Posted in Environment, Green Living, Home, Shopping, recycling, waste, tagged king soopers, plastic bags, recycling on May 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
The other day I went to our local grocery store and saw this:
I’m still kind of new to my camera phone, so it’s a hideous shot (and I wasn’t shopping at a totally deserted store … just managed to get no one in my shot!).
But the orange sign is a handwritten sign that says “Did [...]
Keep birds out of the garden
Posted in Garden, Green Living, Home, food, local, tagged birds, Garden, pests, seedlings on May 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
So you’re growing your own food. Great! Then the birds come in and eat your plants.
Not great.
Birds like to eat seedlings and fruit. I know of several methods to keep them away:
Use floating row cover for seedlings. Weight down the edges — you can use the fancy pins they sell, or just use dirt or [...]
How does your garden grow?
Posted in Eating, Garden, Green Living, Growing Challenge, Home, food, tagged cherries, flowers, Garden, seed, spring, vegetables on May 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
This weekend marked the official start of spring — our garden is in! And those are *real* cherries growing on our tree. There must be a dozen of them growing … enough for a Barbie-sized pie. Maybe a cookie.
Here’s the what, where, how on our garden…
Friday wrap-up: Gas, solar hot water heat, credit card protections and detergent
Posted in Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, carbon, energy, money, thrift, wool, tagged credit cards, Dawn, detergent, dish soap, Ecover, Federal Reserve, gas, gas prices, solar hot water heat on May 23, 2008 | Comments Off
My hot water heater is only a couple years old AND I don’t know how to do plumbing, but other than that, doesn’t this sound good? And it’s remarkably pretty, too.
Gas prices are climbing, climbing, climbing. Green Daily posted about gas prices and options for using less gas-intensive transportation, and WiseBread had a post on [...]
Hybrid car competition heats up!
Posted in Green Living, carbon, tagged auto, cars, gas, Honda, hybrid, mileage, prius, toyota on May 22, 2008 | 14 Comments »
Today, hybrid car competition has heated up with the announcement that Honda is planning to introduce two new hybrid models.
One of them, the company hopes, will be priced at under $20,000 for a five-seat, four-door hatchback model. That’s at least $4,000 less than Toyota’s Prius and is likely to make price incentives a possibility for [...]
Green culture and kids
Posted in Children, Fun, Green Living, Shopping, thrift, waste, tagged bags, Children, ducks, Green Living, green project, kids, play, recycling, reuse, Shopping on May 21, 2008 | 8 Comments »
“This bag does not come from my store,” the “shopkeeper” said. “I use all bags that I’ve gotten from other places. I’m doing the ‘green project’ this year.”
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