Posted in Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, carbon, energy, money, utilities, waste, tagged bunn, coffee, drip coffee, electricity, energy, espresso, fair trade, french press, kill-a-watt on July 3, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Recently I bought a Kill-a-Watt device to measure electricity usage, and I’ll be posting here periodically about what it’s teaching me.
True confession: We have a fancy Bunn coffee maker that keeps the water heated at all times so we can brew a fresh, excellent pot of coffee (into the dishwasher-safe thermal carafe) within 3 minutes.
We [...]
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Posted in DIY, Environment, Freebies, Green Living, Home, Saving, carbon, crafts, fair trade, recycling, thrift, water, tagged baking soda shaker, braless barbie, chopsticks, contact lens case, recycle, reuse, soap holder on July 1, 2008 | 6 Comments »
In the process of trying to reduce our garbage, I’ve come across several items that I needed and wanted to not buy — and conversely, several items I hated to throw away but couldn’t easily recycle. By reusing these items, necessity meets utility.
Quite some time ago, when I started cleaning everything with baking soda instead [...]
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Posted in Eating, Freebies, Garden, Green Living, Home, food, local, thrift, tagged cherries, fruit, liqueur, neighbors, pie on June 30, 2008 | 6 Comments »
This week, as I’ve been out walking the dog, I couldn’t help but notice a neighbor down the street with a tree full of cherries growing riper … and riper. I remembered my vow last year to ask for fruit that appeared to be going to waste, so I knocked on the door on Tuesday.
Nobody [...]
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Posted in DIY, Environment, Garden, Green Living, Home, carbon, recycling, thrift, waste, tagged compost, composter, egg, eggshells, fish, giveaway, green daily, shrimp on June 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Green Daily is giving away a $300-value composter package for those who comment with what they would compost by July 2. It’s a random drawing, so I am generously decreasing my own chances by letting all of you in on it! Good luck!
Also, our neighborhood newsletter arrived yesterday with a slightly wackadoodle article about composting. [...]
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Posted in Environment, Green Living, Saving, waste, tagged challenge, crunchy chicken, diva cup, female, menstrual cup, menstruation, moon cup, period, women on June 26, 2008 | 22 Comments »
Note: This one’s for the ladies! Men, you’ve been warned.
TMI! TMI! TMI!
Too much information, indeed, about things very personal to womankind. Still in? OK then.
In April, I signed on for Crunchy Chicken’s Diva Cup challenge. She offered the chance to win a Diva Cup – an insertable, washable silicone cup that catches menstrual flow, eliminating [...]
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Recently I came across this cool tool to rate how walkable your neighborhood is (via The Simple Dollar).
You just type in your address and it calculates your “walk score” based on the proximity to grocery stores, parks, libraries, restaurants, bars, services, schools, churches, etc. It has its flaws — it lists Jamba Juice as a [...]
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Posted in Eating, Green Living, food, tagged csa, enoki, food, garlic scapes, lettuce, organic, rhubarb, vegetables on June 20, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Thursday was an exciting day: Our first CSA delivery arrived.
We stopped by our lovely host’s home and picked up our giant box, in which a couple of the ballyhooed-by-e-mail crops (garlic scapes - 4; Vidalia onion - 1) looked particularly pitiful.
The contents of our small share (half-share) were:
One lovely head of Bibb/butter lettuce.
One head of [...]
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Posted in Environment, Fun, Garden, Green Living, crafts, tagged crunchy chicken, solar, urine, theramin, picnic, party on June 20, 2008 | No Comments »
GreenPa wants to start a tradition of a “whole planet picnic” - a waste-free free-for-all on the solstice. That would be today … or more loosely, this weekend. So if you don’t have plans, get those phones ringing! I wish I were on top of this this year … maybe next year.
Don’t forget, Saturday is [...]
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Posted in Deals, Eating, Green Living, Saving, Shopping, food, money, thrift, tagged Saving, milk, organic, coupons, Deals on June 19, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This showed up yesterday on The “Cent”sible Sawyer - coupons for organic goods. I would save it for Friday, but some of these things can expire quickly, so I’d advise jumping right on it.
Some of the services only send you coupons once, so bear that in mind, as well.
I had my own money-saving moment this [...]
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Posted in Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, carbon, energy, utilities, tagged alternative energy, clean energy, electricity, energy, oil, peak oil, power, solar, utilities on June 18, 2008 | 8 Comments »
This week, we received our utility bill. It included a newsletter encouraging us to consider solar power, and to do it now to take advantage of a combination of utility company rebates and federal tax credits.
If you are thinking about going solar, note that the federal tax credit for solar panels and solar water heaters [...]
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