Archive for October, 2007
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Monday, October 15th, 2007When we started Tiny Choices less than three short months ago, we wanted to create a forum where we could consider the tiny choices we make in the world, and how they impact the environment. One might say how MUCH they impact the environment, because as we’ve all seen, it’s nearly impossible to do anything [...]
Blog Action Day!
Monday, October 15th, 2007It’s Blog Action Day! We’ll be posting later about how Tiny Choices (and all of you!) have changed our lives!
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup
Sunday, October 14th, 2007Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina discusses, in two exciting parts, compostable garbage bags; also, introducing Google Transit! Tuesday: Jenn totally and completely overthinks the issue of stovetop vs. electric teakettles . Wednesday: Karina reviews “Plenty,” a book about [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Hang Up Your Laundry!
Saturday, October 13th, 2007Next time you’ve finished washing your laundry, make the tiny choice to forgo using the dryer (and those nasty dryer sheets as well), and instead hang up your sparkling-clean threads to air dry. Dryers use immense amounts of electricity, increase the risk of home fires, and reduce the lifespan of your clothing (ever wonder where [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: It’s Your Turn!
Friday, October 12th, 2007Hey you! Yea, you!! We’d love for you to be a Tiny Choices survey taker, and spotlight your tiny-choicemaking for all the universe to read! Just answer the following questions, and email them, along with a photo of yourself (we can crop it for you), to tinychoices -AT- tinychoices -DOT- com. Love always, Jenn & [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Kim C.
Friday, October 12th, 2007Vital statistics (name, age, location)? Kim C., 27, Long Island, NY How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. I live with my family out in Long Island – While I love them to death, thankfully my housing arrangement is only temporary while I’m [...]
Luscious Garage
Thursday, October 11th, 2007As if we all needed yet another reason to move en masse to San Francisco and buy hybrid cars– introducing Luscious Garage, a woman-owned, hybrid-only repair shop! Imagine a garage with the qualities of your hybrid: one that’s intelligent, cutting-edge, and environmentally responsible. Then make it luscious: a beautiful facility, woman-owned and operated, conveniently located [...]
The Tiny Choices Meal List
Thursday, October 11th, 2007Lately, I’ve been letting other people cook for me. The guys at the deli on the corner toast a mean breakfast bialey, and the lunch and dinner options in this city are endless. And it’s nice to have those same other people wash the necessary pots and pans and clean the countertops when they’re finished. [...]
Tiny Choices Book Review: Plenty
Wednesday, October 10th, 2007Plenty: One Man, One Woman, and a Raucous Year of Eating Locally by Alisa Smith and J. B. MacKinnon. A while ago, I found a blog for a young couple who were attempting to eat locally. Like, really locally – within a 100-mile radius. I loved that blog! it was so neat! Partly, I loved [...]
Musings On A Tea Kettle
Tuesday, October 9th, 2007As I laze about, thanking Columbus for discovering America so that I could have the day off from work, my thoughts wander to the pot of tea in front of me. More specifically, to the water-boiling process I just completed for the pot of tea in front of me. My tea kettle is of the [...]
Google Transit!
Monday, October 8th, 2007This is so cool: Google has added TRANSIT directions to the options on google maps! It’s not available everywhere yet, and I am disappointed that I can’t test it out on the NYC metro area, but it IS in Pittsburgh PA and reading that made me sit up straight on my couch and say “oh, [...]
Compostable Garbage Bags
Monday, October 8th, 2007Today this post will consist of two very closely related parts: My initial experiences with a new kind of garbage bags, and: A question and answer, involving bags with contents that will be disposed of. Part the first: I’ve noticed that I’m running a little low on plastic shopping bags from my stash under the [...]
Tiny Choices: Weekly Round-Up
Sunday, October 7th, 2007Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Get the scoop on the First Official Tiny Choices Field Trip, to Park Slope, Brooklyn! Tuesday: Karina shares her frustrating experience with Starbucks refusal to refill her travel mug. What?? Also, Jenn shines the [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Give It Away!
Saturday, October 6th, 2007There are many good reasons to lighten your load– a zen home is a peaceful home. And, sometimes, don’t you just feel weighed down by all of your stuff? Take a few minutes and sort through your closets, shelves, and drawers–we’ll bet you can find a few items you just don’t need anymore, but which [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Joe Cruz
Friday, October 5th, 2007Vital statistics (name, age, location)? Joe Cruz, 31, Philadelphia, PA, USA How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. My partner and I live in an apartment/condominium with our 150lb. Newfoundland Dog, Ethel. Our housing decision was by choice, but before my Green-lightenment. If [...]
Green Glossary
Thursday, October 4th, 2007Have you been confused by terms such as “carbon sink,” “offsetting,” or “vermicomposting”? Well, be confused no more! Thanks again to Adam over at LifeGoggles, who has compiled an incredibly handy glossary of commonly used environmental terms.
Carbon Footprint Labels on Products
Thursday, October 4th, 2007It’s kinda neat that corporations are starting to label products with the carbon footprint prominently displayed on the packaging. For instance, we now know that the production and distribution of a 33.5 gram bag of Cheese and Onion Walkers Crisps (primarily found in Britain) give off 75 grams of Co2. Also in Britain (go Britain!), [...]
100 Ways To Green Your Life
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007Over at Lifegoggles.com, Adam has posted a free ebook titled “100 Ways To Green Your Life.” Clearly, Adam is just full of tiny choices, including the choice to distribute his book in electronic version instead of dead-tree version. Thanks for compiling so many useful, great tips, Adam!
Tiny Choices Pep Talk
Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007This might be a bit of a downer for a Wednesday morning (“hump day!”), but I came across these kind of downer ads from architecture 2030 [via treehugger] and I wanted to bring them up and discuss them at Tiny Choices. . The ads points out that there are 151 new coal fired power plants [...]
Dear Starbucks:
Tuesday, October 2nd, 2007I took a trip to Pittsburgh this weekend and drove home with my good friend Michelle on Monday. On the way back, we stopped at a Pennsylvania rest area for a bathroom break and a cup of coffee. Michelle and I are both reusable mug devotees, and we merrily trouped in with our coffee cups [...]
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