I just wanted to report back on my task of declining catalogs via Catalog Choice, as I wrote about yesterday. I just spent 20 minutes on the site and opted out of nearly 20 catalogs. This was so easy and something I can easily see myself doing on a regular basis if additional catalogs show [...]
Over at Green Boot Camp, we’re on Week Seven of our habit-changing plan. This week we’re discussing why using reusable grocery shopping bags is a great habit to get into.
I’m not sure how this is possible, but one pass through of my house this weekend (during our frenzied cleaning) produced nearly nine pounds of catalogs. Or a pile that’s about the size of two big phone books–you know, the kind that your grandparents might have used as stand-in booster seats when you were young? [...]
I’m having some girlfriends over for breakfast tomorrow morning, after the kids go to school, which means that I’m spending most of today straightening up the house.Whenever I have one of these marathons cleaning sessions, inevitably I end up with stacks of mail that I haven’t had the chance to go through in the past [...]
A collective “Hooray” went through the green community earlier this week, when Whole Foods proclaimed that it would getting rid of plastic bags at the checkout aisle by this Earth Day (which is April 22, 2008, in case you didn’t know). Of course, Whole Foods has been working up towards this day for some time [...]
For Week Seven of Green Boot Camp, I’m focusing on helping you identify phantom energy suckers or vampire power suckers in your home–and then driving a wooden stake through their heart. OK, that’s a bit graphic. In reality, I offer advice on setting up a charging station in the home to cut down on energy [...]
Every time there is a national election, there is some kind of buzzword or buzz phrase that catches Americans’ attention, and often lives on infamy long after the election is over. I’m thinking of things like “It’s the economy, stupid,” (Bill Clinton, 1996) and “Read my lips: no new taxes” (George H.W. Bush, 1988). In [...]
Week Five of Green Boot Camp focuses on appliances–first laundry room appliances, then kitchen appliances. Check it out.
I was just reading an article in a recent Wall Street Journal about energy audits which came out of one of the paper’s reporters having paid to have a professional energy auditor, well, audit her home. Her article explained how these energy audits work and what they’re supposed to uncover–energy leaks in your home that, [...]
I just got finished walking to the bank during my morning walking-of-the-dog, the multitasking I’d written about in a previous post. While I was out and about, I noticed two things that I’d never noticed before. First, I caught the name of the company that collects plastic shopping bags outside the SuperFresh supermarket near the [...]
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