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 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 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, 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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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 | No Comments »
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 [...]
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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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Posted in Eating, Garden, Green Living, Home, Saving, food, local, thrift, tagged Garden, plants, seedlings, spring on May 15, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Spring is here and things are growing!
We have a bunch of crops started. In fact, the first batch of spinach is just about done — ready to pick, cook and freeze.
Lettuce is going into salads.
Inside, our seedlings have taken off — scarlet runner beans, pumpkins, butternut squash, cantaloupe, and okra.
The peanuts, on the other hand, [...]
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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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