Archive for August, 2007
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Sunday, August 19th, 2007Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina discusses the trials and tribulations of vermicomposting. Also, Q&A – when you’re bagless, how do you throw out your trash? Tuesday: Can professional grade frisbees be eco-sound too? And Karina (aka Leadfoot) discusses [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Shut off the Water!
Saturday, August 18th, 2007When you’re brushing your teeth, remember to shut the water off while you scrub. Regardless of the fact that while brushing your teeth you may lose up to five gallons of water down the drain, and even if you live in an area with an abundant water supply, think of it this way: clean water [...]
Tiny Choices Q&A: Recycling in a Zen Space?
Friday, August 17th, 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). PaperDollyGirl asks: How do you balance wanting to recycle as much as possible with desiring to keep a clean, clutter free space? Karina: I have inherited my family’s depression era [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Jennifer Manning
Friday, August 17th, 2007Vital statistics (name, age, location)? Jennifer Manning, 38, New York City How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. My husband and I choose to live in a relatively small apartment in order to be in a wonderful neighborhood that is well situated. We’ve [...]
Blog Action Day: Unite!
Thursday, August 16th, 2007We’ll be participating in Blog Action Day on October 15th. If you’re a blogger, you should too!
Walk Score: How walkable is your house?
Thursday, August 16th, 2007Here’s a neat site which rates the walkability of your home: Walk Score helps people find walkable places to live. Walk Score calculates the walkability of an address by locating nearby stores, restaurants, schools, parks, etc. After entering your address, you’re shown a Google map listing the nearest restaurants, bars, bookstores, grocery stores, and more. [...]
Tiny Choices Q&A: Gift Wrap?
Wednesday, August 15th, 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). Stacey asks: What about gift wrapping – especially for showers when presentation counts for alot. I love this question, because I think there are so many crafty answers to it. [...]
Choosing to get 70 mpg.
Wednesday, August 15th, 2007This weekend I drove home from my parents house in Upstate NY. There was traffic – as there is always traffic on Sundays in the summer, as all the “downstaters” drive home from the Adirondacks and Catskills. And so faced with a beautiful afternoon, a good mix CD, and hours of sunlight, I made a [...]
Reflyer: Recycled-Plastic Frisbee
Tuesday, August 14th, 2007I’ve recently learned that I actually don’t suck at frisbee– this is news to me, and exciting news at that. The trick, as I was taught by my friend Jenn, is to use a good quality, regulation-weight disc, and not the crappy $.99 one I had picked up at Old Navy a few years back. [...]
Tiny Choices Q&A: Tossing Trash when you’re Bag Free?
Monday, August 13th, 2007Welcome to Tiny Choices Q&A, where we open the floor for discussion on questions which y’all have submitted (read the first list of questions here). Stacey asks: If you never take plastic bags, how do you get rid of your trash? To be honest, I am a total hoarder and I have a bunch of [...]
Worms live in my Kitchen.
Monday, August 13th, 2007When people ask if I have a pet, I’m not really sure what to say. That’s because I’ve got worms living in my kitchen.** I vermicompost, which means I feed worms my vegetable scraps. Because I live in an apartment without access to the yard, this is the easiest way to handle the excess organic [...]
Tiny Choices: Weekly Round-Up
Sunday, August 12th, 2007Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Learn how to take the first steps towards repairing your broken electronics. Tuesday: Jenn’s Tiny Choice: a replacable head toothbrush. How eco-sound is yours? Also, Q&A: how much carbon is in 1kWh? Wednesday: Karina [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Don’t Bag It
Saturday, August 11th, 2007Start to reduce the number of disposable plastic bags that you take. If you’re already carrying a bag (purse, backpack, briefcase or shopping bag), then put your purchases in there– do you really need your apple in a new plastic bag? Likewise, you might not really need to put your sandwich in a bag to [...]
Tiny Choices Q&A: Condoms?
Saturday, August 11th, 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). MZ asks: What about condoms…which ones are better for the environment? I thought this would be a fun question to answer… little did I know I would uncover an unsettling [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Nick Leaney
Friday, August 10th, 2007Vital statistics (name, age, location)? Nick Leaney, 37, Somerset, UK How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. I live in an end of terrace brick built house built circa 1890 in the UK’s south west. I live with my wife Marianne, son Noah [...]
Colony Collapse Disorder: Donde Estan los Bees?
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Ya’ll have heard about the epidemic losses of honeybees (dubbed Colony Collapse Disorder)? No? Well apparently all over the Western world, bees are just not returning to their hives– 30-70% of them are abandoning their homes, and no one quite knows why or where they’ve gone. This is a major, major problem– not just because [...]
Tiny Choices Q&A: Consume and Conserve?
Thursday, August 9th, 2007Welcome to Tiny Choices Q&A, where we open the floor for discussion on questions which y’all have submitted (read the first list of questions here). From across the pond, Leansky asks: Can ‘consume’ and ‘conserve’ ever be compatible? Jenn: This is such an interesting question, and it’s such an interesting time to be asking this [...]
My Adobo es su Adobo
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007Here’s a neat interactive site that shows/teaches how to green up your home: My Adobo is an interactive toy that lets you shape a house to suit you. Change your stuff and see how it affects the climate. It’s really fun! Here’s what I experienced, all with the sound of birds chirping in the background [...]
Recycling at Work
Wednesday, August 8th, 2007For those of you who aren’t from around here, the metro NYC area – including NJ – has some pretty strict recycling regulations. In both areas it’s required that everyone recycle – including businesses! And yet, at my job there are no recycling bins. None! This is concerning for a couple of reasons (beyond standard [...]
Tiny Choices Q&A: How much carbon is in 1kW?
Tuesday, August 7th, 2007Welcome to Tiny Choices Q&A, where we open the floor for discussion on questions which y’all have submitted (read the first list of questions here). J. Cruz asked a great question: I’ve seen a ton of “Carbon Calculators” out there, but I can’t seem to find out, say, what the carbon footprint of a kWh [...]
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