Archive for September, 2007
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Sunday, September 16th, 2007Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina discusses some of the renovations at the Queens Botanical Gardens. Jenn highlights some of the benefits of a bicycle. Tuesday: Jenn spurs some serious office-supply-lust with the stapleless stapler. Karina tackles the question [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Unplug it!
Saturday, September 15th, 2007In order to cut down your electricity consumption at home, try this simple solution: Unplug non-essential appliances. Obviously this won’t work for the refrigerator, but items such as your TV, microwave, and laptop chargers all use electricity to power “stand-by” systems when they’re off or not in use, and by unplugging them you can override [...]
See, Composting Toilets are Fun!
Friday, September 14th, 2007C’mon, who wouldn’t want a composting toilet, if they were all hot pink?? I will admit to a fascination with composting toilets. It’s one of the first requirements for the Official Tiny Choices Homestead. Karina, do you agree? [thanks to Valerie for the link!]
Tiny Choices Survey: Linda Permann
Friday, September 14th, 2007Vital statistics (name, age, location)? Linda Permann, 27, Bozeman MT How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. I live in a 2BR apartment with my boyfriend. It’s what we can afford right now, and nice to have the extra space to craft! How [...]
Where Do You Draw The Line?
Thursday, September 13th, 2007After telling a friend that I used my bamboo spork (as gifted to me from Karina) on a lunch date-kind-of-thing–and not one in which I was trying to drive my companion off, either–I got a gape-mouthed astonished look from her in return. It made me wonder if I crossed some imaginary line of eco-eccentricity. I [...]
Tiny Choices Q&A: Non-Recyclable Plastics?
Thursday, September 13th, 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: If New York only collects plastic jugs & bottles from #1 and #2 plastic, what do we do with all of our soyogurt containers, deli food holders and [...]
Many Psychologists Agree: Tiny Choices are GOOD.
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Today Treehugger posted a link to an article in grist that posits that the tiny choices we’re all supporting and discussing actually HARM the environmental movement. Eek! Obviously, here at Tiny Choices we don’t agree with that article. But it is a big issue – people will say “oh, why bother recycling when the majority [...]
Honeybee Update: It’s Not Good
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007Back on the topic of Colony Collapse Disorder (aka “Donde Estan Los Bees?”), Wired reports that genetic scientists have “isolated a particular virus, called Israeli Acute Paralysis Virus (IAPV), in a large sample of bees affected by CCD. The virus, which has appeared in Israel, as well as in samples taken from Australia, paralyzes bees, [...]
DIY clothing
Wednesday, September 12th, 2007As the seasons start to change and as kids rush back to school, I’m faced full on with one of the tiny choices I’ve been practicing for the last couple of years: to make as many of my clothes as possible. it sounds really punk rock and crafty, right? but in actuality, I got fed [...]
Tiny Choices Q&A: Car Windows: up or down?
Tuesday, September 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). Xuli asks in the Keeping Cool Sans A/C post: I wanted to ask you about not using AC in your car because we try not to use it also. But [...]
Greening Your Work: The Stapless Stapler
Tuesday, September 11th, 2007While not a new product (stapless staplers were first patented in America in 1910), these neat contraptions are revolutionary for another reason–they challange us to expand our minds and think in new directions. After all, if we don’t need little bits of mined-from-the-earth-and-shipped-all-over-the-place metal to hold our papers together, then what other processes can we [...]
Benefits of a Bicycle
Monday, September 10th, 2007I’m loving this detailed scientific diagram outlining the benefits of bicycling. Available on unisex organic cotton t-shirts for $15, or you know, just admire it on the web. Produced by CICLE, an LA-based bike advocacy organization, who offer a few handy tips for folks who’d like to start riding more. [via Treehugger]
Queens Botanical Garden
Monday, September 10th, 2007My mom came for a visit this weekend and asked to go to a botanical garden while she was here. Which one? I asked – New York, Brooklyn, or Queens? She chose Queens because they have a number of sustainable gardens listed. It turns out that they’re not quite up and running yet, but it [...]
Tiny Choices: Weekly Round-Up
Sunday, September 9th, 2007Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina DIYs up some reusable bag options. Tuesday: Jenn returns from a trip to the Canadian Northwest full-up with love of community; Jesse of Corduroy Orange gives away free cloth napkins! Wednesday: Karina waxes [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Recycled Toilet Paper
Saturday, September 8th, 2007Next time you run out of the white stuff, aim to buy recycled-content toilet paper for your loo. Shoot for 100% post-consumer content paper, but you might have to settle for a mixture of post-consumer and post-industrial paper. That’s ok, because it’s all better than using clear-cut old-growth forests for disposable paper products. There are [...]
Tiny Choices Q&A: Organic Tampons?
Friday, September 7th, 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: Can you talk about tampons..after all this time I’m still not using the healthy environmental ones…I need to know more about tampons and why [I shouldn't use] the [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Jenn Cass
Friday, September 7th, 2007Vital statistics (name, age, location)? Jenn Cass, 31, Astoria, Queens How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. I live alone in an apartment. By Choice. Because 7 years ago, when I moved there, I didn’t want roommates. Now, my rent is just too [...]
Dr. Bronners = Love
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Sometimes a product is so overwhelmingly wonderful that you fall in love with it, even knowing it can’t love you back. Such are my feelings for Dr. Bronners soap. Emanuel Bronner was a third generation master soap-maker from an orthodox Jewish family in Heilbron, Germany, where he was certified as a master soap-maker under the [...]
DIY: Cutlery Tote
Thursday, September 6th, 2007Well, if you’re going to start carrying around your own cutlery, and/or keeping it at the office, you may as well do it in style! Instructables has a great tutorial for sewing your own cutlery tote. Make it ubergreen by repurposing fabric you already have on hand.
Tiny Choices Q&A: If you were President?
Wednesday, September 5th, 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). Traditionally, Labor Day starts the serious portion of election season off. And this year, I’m sure you’ve all noticed that the U.S. Presidential Race is gearing up EARLY. A whole [...]
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