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 Environment, Home, Saving, energy, recycling, spinning, thrift, utilities, tagged cars, fuel efficiency, bra-powered ipods, ceiling fans, craigslist on June 27, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Get Rich Slowly this week posted a terrific tip to subscribe to a search on Craigslist. Mwah ha ha, when the right Kromski Prelude spinning wheel comes along, I will be all over it!
It is ceiling fan season — and The Simple Dollar posted a simple list of ways to get your ceiling fan to [...]
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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 DIY, Fun, Garden, Green Living, recycling, waste, tagged waste, recycling, compost, nitrogen, crunchy chicken, urine, pee, fertilizer on June 13, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Crunchy Chicken’s latest brainstorm is a garden potty party on June 21. And that’s not a pitcher of lemonade in the graphic.
Nope. It’s urine.
The good news: You don’t have to drink it!
(Although, supposedly, you could. Which reminds me of the time when I shared an apartment with L’An, about 15 years ago, and we read [...]
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Posted in Children, Environment, Green Living, Home, energy, paper, recycling, waste, tagged air conditioning, art, Children, computer, energy, lights, paper, power, savings on June 6, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I got so many great questions from readers for my one-year anniversary last week - not to mention all the sweet comments. Thank YOU all for reading and making this blog so much fun. Your being here helps motivate me to keep on keepin’ on — even though things feel a little dark at times [...]
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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 »
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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Posted in Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, Shopping, carbon, energy, food, local, money, paper, recycling, thrift, utilities, waste, water, tagged waste, recycling, reuse, gas, 90% reduction, 90 percent reduction, riot for austerity, reduce, electricity, garbage, water, food 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 [...]
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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 [...]
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Posted in DIY, Environment, Garden, Green Living, Home, food, recycling, thrift, waste, tagged carbon, compost, nitrogen, recycle, vermicompost, yard waste on May 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Last week was International Compost Week, and since we missed it here, the pressure’s off and we can just focus on the process of starting a compost pile.
Compost is a mixture of decayed organic matter (from vegetable peelings to manure) that provides rich fertilizer for soil (humus — not to be confused with hummus, the [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, our local paper published an interesting article about a “day in the life” of a Denver Recycling worker. I wish I had video of the way they pick up the carts - it is really cool. I think the city is catching on. For the first few months, I was [...]
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