Archive for September, 2007
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Sunday, September 30th, 2007Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina talks fish and sustainable seafood, and then tackles a Q&A to determine if Brita pitchers will eventually poison us all! Tuesday: Jenn offers some tips for greening our driving. Wednesday: Karina talks about [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Shut off OTHER Peoples Lights!
Saturday, September 29th, 2007If you find yourself at loose ends over the weekend, head out and hit some open houses. As you walk through the houses, shut off all the lights behind you! You’ll be saving energy and maybe leaving behind a hint to the future home owners. If, however, the Realtor hollers after you: “Did you girls [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Molly McKenzie
Friday, September 28th, 2007Vital statistics (name, age, location)? Molly McKenzie, 28, Chicago, IL How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. Small apartment, by myself. When the former boyfriend and I split last summer, I took advantage of my first real opportunity to live on my own. [...]
Reusable Water Bottles Options: Revisited By Slate.com
Thursday, September 27th, 2007Here’s a Slate.com take on reusable water bottle options. While the author reviewed many of the same bottles that I covered in my previous post, she does cover a few new ones, and her ideal bottle turns out to be different than mine. Which drives home her point: “…there is no one water bottle for [...]
Tiny Choices Q&A: Where Be The Vegans?
Thursday, September 27th, 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: If so many people know that being a vegan makes such a difference to the environment (it’s been in the news that it’s more helpful than not driving) [...]
Little Houses
Wednesday, September 26th, 2007One of the things that I love is small housing. I’ve lived in big apartments and small apartments, and I have a whole lot of stuff, but I really love small houses. I’d love to share a few resources with you all! It’s interesting to read how house sizes have increased dramatically over the last [...]
Green Your Driving
Tuesday, September 25th, 2007It’s an obvious fact that the lightest ways to get around are by foot, bike, scooter, or Segway (I just really love those things). Next up is public transportation-and I realize that I am incredibly lucky to live in a city which offers such a far-flung mass transit system. It might take me 2 hours [...]
Tiny Choices Q&A: Will Brita Pitchers Leach Impurities?
Monday, September 24th, 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). Liz Kalloch asks: I read your post about the plastic drinking bottles, and other choices, and the plastic that “leeches” into the water, couldn’t get that picture out of my [...]
You are what you eat.
Monday, September 24th, 2007I’ve been eating a lot of fish lately, and it’s partly because I’ve been running a lot and it’s hard to eat enough protein to keep my body happy. This is the faceless internet, so you all may not know that I am a profoundly muscular person. [ok, maybe not. but you'll never know!] And [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup
Sunday, September 23rd, 2007Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Our recycling nerd Karina outs herself to her whole company, and shares how to recycle hard-to-recycle items. Tuesday: Jenn wheezes on about dangerous, delicious popcorn, and reveals her lust for Lush. Wednesday: Kari tackles [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Shop Local First
Saturday, September 22nd, 2007Think about how you can incorporate locally-made goods into your shopping list- whether it’s purchasing apples from a nearby farm, hand lotion whipped up in your town, or a muffin baked fresh at the bakery down the street- the less a product travels, the less pollution and waste it creates. Keeping it closer to home [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Christie Arlotta
Friday, September 21st, 2007Vital statistics (name, age, location)? Christie Arlotta, 30, Helmetta NJ, How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. House with my boyfriend and my sister … and 2 dogs, 5 cats, a bird and some fish (all rescues). The house was a choice … [...]
World Carfree Day: September 22
Thursday, September 20th, 2007We’re coming up on the 2007 version of Car-Free Day: worldcarfree.net: Every September 22, people from around the world get together in the streets, intersections, and neighbourhood blocks to remind the world that we don’t have to accept our car-dominated society. It’s a little bit hard to figure out what exactly is going on, and [...]
Dryer Sheets
Thursday, September 20th, 2007I guess I’ve never really understood dryer sheets. Then again, they probably don’t really understand me either. I tend to hang up most of my clothing to air dry, and only use the dryer for bulky or hard-to-hang items, but I freely admit to being deeply in love with my washer and dryer. Living in [...]
Tiny Choices Q&A: How do you dry your hands?
Wednesday, September 19th, 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). Cat147 asks: When given the option in a public restroom, should I choose the paper towels or the air dryer to dry my hands after washing? I know what our [...]
Happy “Talk Like A Pirate” Day!
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007I’m sure ya’ll know this already, but today is National Talk Like A Pirate Day. What you might not know is that, here at Tiny Choices, we have our own secular pirate, who masquarades as a tiny-choicemaking Lady Engineer by day but, despite the cute DIY skirts and Dansko clogs, is really a first-rate scary [...]
How to Simplify your Life
Wednesday, September 19th, 2007Zen Habits has posted a simple living manifesto with 72 ideas to simplify your life. I was reading through it and it struck me that many of these simplifications can be considered tiny choices that will not just simplify your life, but also help turn the tide towards environmentalism. The concept of living a more [...]
Popcorn Lung
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007While the title of this post could be a new playground insult (“Hey, Popcorn Lung!”), unfortunately it’s a real disease which is contracted by workers in popcorn factories. The key flavoring ingredient in microwave popcorn is diacetyl-it’s what gives the popcorn its buttery flavor. When inhaled as a vapor, usually during the industrial microwave popcorn [...]
Lush Makes Tiny Choices!
Tuesday, September 18th, 2007Do you know about Lush? You really should. I discovered them on my junior term in Chester, England, oh about (counts fingers and toes) many moons ago. Walking into a Lush store is a sensory experience- the sight and smell of so many gorgeous bathbombs and soaps and lotions and glitter bars never fails to [...]
Recycling Nerd
Monday, September 17th, 2007Last week Jenn posted about how she recycles her recyclable plastics. And YOU ALL know by now that I am a huge recycling nerd. Well, now my entire company knows as well: the weekly company newsletter featured a profile of yours truly, and being a true recycling nerd this is what I chose to say [...]
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