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, 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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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 Deals, Environment, Green Living, Home, Saving, crafts, money, waste, tagged compost, Deals, neckties, thong, thrifty, socially responsible on June 6, 2008 | No Comments »
Money and Values wrote about cheap deals on green or socially responsible products this week. She’s got a long list to check out.
Simply Thrifty blogged 30 Things You Can Compost. If you guys head over, you probably have more to add to her list.
And if you have a stack or sack of old neckties lying [...]
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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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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 [...]
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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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