When I was working on my green packaging story for Continental Magazine, I discovered a lot of cool information. For example, though lots of different kinds of companies are greening the containers that held their products (the Timberland boxes at right include a “carbon footprint” label designed to look like a nutrition facts label), they [...]
When my husband, Bill, and I bought our first house, we couldn’t afford to hire a landscaper or a gardener. At the same time we weren’t going to live without some kind of garden. To make ends meet and to make ourselves happy, we decided to design and plant our garden ourselves. That said, we [...]
You’ll recall that a few weeks ago I wrote rather enthusiastically about Catalog Choice and how it was going to help cut down on the amount of catalogs showing up in my mailbox–and therefore cut down on the amount of paper I had to recycle. For awhile there I thought it was working, but now [...]
Discover how using rags for your spring cleaning is good for the earth in more ways than one. Click on Green Boot Camp: Week Eleven–Rag Time
Get ready for spring with four weeks’ worth of green spring cleaning tips, over at Green Boot Camp. Check out the link below. Green Boot Camp: Weeks Eleven, Twelve, Thirteen and Fourteen–Green Spring Cleaning
When it comes to gift cards these days, I must admit that I’m thinking about the saying, “caveat emptor” or “buyer beware.” I mean, I’m a huge fan of gift cards, as you know if you’ve read my past posts about gift cards. But recent stories about retailers in financial distress–and how that financial situation [...]
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