Archive for August, 2007
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Friday, August 31st, 2007 Vital statistics (name, age, location)?
Kayte Terry, 30, Greenpoint, Brooklyn
How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
I live in a railroad apartment with my husband and a house rabbit. I love Greenpoint so I was really intent on moving back after our apartment in […]
Tiny Choices Q&A: Dishwashers vs. Handwashers!
Thursday, August 30th, 2007 Welcome to Tiny Choices Q&A, where we open the floor for discussion on questions which ya’ll have submitted (read the first list of questions here).
Lorelei asks:
Please compare the water/energy usage in washing dishes by hand & machine.
The jury is out on this one, Lorelei! it depends on a number of factors: are you only […]
Reusable Shopping Bags
Thursday, August 30th, 2007By this point most folks have heard that disposable plastic bags are killing us, and everything’s starting to suffer–creatures in the sea, the trees, and the victims of Mumbai floods in 2005. Only 2% of plastic bags are recycled in the U.S. each year, which is a miniscule drop in the 10-billion-bags-per-year bucket, and […]
Transportation Choices
Wednesday, August 29th, 2007I’m driving down to Assateague Island with some friends tonight to join my family for a long weekend. One of the things I always notice when I’m down there is the broad variety of transportation in use. While nearby Ocean City has proper sidewalks, Rt 50 (Coastal Highway) and Rt 611 don’t have any at […]
LED Pears!
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007
I am in love with this. LOVE!
It’s a tree. With LED lights, shaped like pears. Which you can pluck from the tree, and thus have a glowing pear light your way for an hour, before placing it back on the tree for recharging.
Isn’t it lovely?
(Thou shalt not covet thy neighbor’s glowing LED […]
A Very Good Question
Tuesday, August 28th, 2007What is the use of a house if you haven’t got a tolerable planet to put it on?
–Henry David Thoreau
A quick note:
Monday, August 27th, 2007Just so y’all know, the Tiny Choices Team is taking some vacation this week. Jenn went north and Karina’s heading south… But don’t worry! we’ve got a full week of posts in the queue for you, but we will probably not be able to respond promptly to comments later in the week.
On Personal Hygine
Monday, August 27th, 2007Last week I read an article about a woman in the UK who, for 40 days and 40 nights, stopped using all cleansing products. She didn’t shower, wash her hair, brush her teeth, or use deodorant. That is not a tiny choice! This is a MAJOR choice. She says:
“… one evening earlier this year, I […]
Tiny Choices: Weekly Roundup
Sunday, August 26th, 2007Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience!
Last week on Tiny Choices:
Monday: Jenn tackled the energy difference between computers “sleep” and “off” settings, and Karina wowed us all with an in-depth look at the Wonder Wash and countertop spin dryer
Tuesday: It’s time to confess your green transgressions… […]
Easy Peasy Tip: Reduce your toilet’s water consumption
Saturday, August 25th, 2007There’s an easy way to turn your regular water-guzzling tank-style toilet into a water-conserving machine: remove the lid from the tank, and check out how much space you’ve got in between the floaty bit, pipes, and tubes. Find a plastic beverage bottle which will fit nicely, fill it with water and cap it. […]
Question: Sigg + Flying
Friday, August 24th, 2007So today I’m leavin on a jet plane, and I’ve got a question for all you worldly types out there… will it cause a major panic at Kennedy if I try to go through security with a Sigg bottle? I understand that you can’t take more than 3 ounces (oy vey) of liquids through […]
Tiny Choices Survey: Peggy Apostolides
Friday, August 24th, 2007 Vital statistics (name, age, location)?
Peggy Apostolides, 32, NYC, NY
How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
I rent an apartment that I share with two roommates. One day I would
love to own my very own place to live in all by myself. Till I […]
Tiny Choices Twitters!
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007Tiny Choices twitters!
Do you twitter, too?
Reusable Water Bottles Options
Thursday, August 23rd, 2007We haven’t really written much here on Tiny Choices about bottled water issues yet, so until we talk about it in detail let’s just move forward from the understanding that single-use plastic water bottles are the modern plague of locusts (feel free to disagree with me in the comments below. And props […]
Tiny Choices Q&A: How do you wash dishes?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007 Welcome to Tiny Choices Q&A, where we open the floor for discussion on questions which ya’ll have submitted (read the first list of questions here).
Jennifer asks:
What about doing dishes? My kitchen is so small that the clean dishes rest in one side of the sink, which leaves me with constantly running water to clean […]
Is it Too Much Work to adopt a Greener Lifestyle?
Wednesday, August 22nd, 2007Treehugger directed me to an article published in the Guardian discussing a British study that seems to indicate that it is just too much effort to adopt a greener lifestyle.
Oh Noes! Someone send these people a link to Tiny Choices!
Now, I read the article in the Guardian, and I read the release of the survey […]
Tiny Choices In Your Inbox!
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Didja know that you can receive a daily round-up of new Tiny Choices posts in your Inbox? It’s true. And it’s much easier than remembering to come check out the site every day.
See that box on the upper-left there? The one that reads: “Sign up for our daily email newsletter”? Put […]
True Green Confessions
Tuesday, August 21st, 2007Go ahead, confess your green transgressions… we’ve all got ‘em. Sometimes it’s just kind of hard being green.
These are particularly funny confessions (and by “funny” I mean “so very, very sad”):
I wash my car in the rain.
I hate SUVs. and I drive one.
I bought the trendy stainless steel water bottle and it drives me […]
Tiny Choices Q&A: Computer “Sleep” vs. “Off”?
Monday, August 20th, 2007Welcome to Tiny Choices Q&A, where we open the floor for discussion on questions which ya’ll have submitted (read the first list of questions here).
Lorelei asks:
What is the amount of energy wasted by people putting their computers to sleep instead of shutting them down?
The good news is that computer technology is constantly becoming more energy […]
Washing clothes by “hand”
Monday, August 20th, 2007In April, I learned about a manual washing machine called the Wonder Wash . After thinking about it for a while, I decided to go ahead and give it a try. The Wonder Wash is a pressurized cylinder that you fill with your clothes and soapy water and then crank for 2 minutes. The […]
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