Archive for November, 2007
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Friday, November 30th, 2007Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)?
Diane M. Schuller, 55, rural home near Hythe, Alberta (very north - Canada). Weekly “green” column: Everyday Earth Wise
How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
My husband and I live in a single-wide mobile home with our […]
Love Forever Eye Pillows
Thursday, November 29th, 2007Hey, check it out: our dear friend Kayte, of Love Forever, made it into the Treehugger gift guide with her gorgeous handmade eye pillows! You can pick one up through her Etsy shop– they make great gifts.
Superspecial tip: keep one in the freezer for extra-soothing goodness.
Reusable Swiffer Cloths
Thursday, November 29th, 2007If you’ve got leftover fleece fabric in your stash (like, for example, from those capes you made last holiday season), then you can whip up some of these reusable Swiffer heads for your non-disposable cleaning needs. Since fleece is made of polyester (and polyester is made from petroleum), it’s definitely best to just use […]
Transportation Log: NJ to Atlanta
Wednesday, November 28th, 2007I mentioned earlier this week that I traveled to Atlanta to visit my family for the holiday weekend. Here’s a log of all the different types of transportation I took in 5 short days, and some annotation of the tiny choices we made during the trip:
My apartment to EWR (Newark) Airport: I took a car […]
Stuff-Free Holidays
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007From Grist.org comes “Oh, You Shouldn’t Have: Ten great ideas for stuff-free holiday gifts.” Words to live by:
Tangible gifts are so 20th century.
Adventures In Perfume
Tuesday, November 27th, 2007My perfume of choice for the past decade or so has been vanilla scented essential oil in one form or another, most recently reprezentin’ as a custom blend from Nantucket Oils– this version was the most grown-up yet, as it was a vanilla/musk combo. Racy!
Recently, though, I’d been wanting to find a signature scent […]
Greening Air Travel
Monday, November 26th, 2007By the time you read this, I’ll be sitting pretty in Georgia. I may even be heading for the Atlanta airport to fly back home from my family Thanksgiving down south. And I know that flying is not an efficient way to travel - I just read an article on cnn.com that says:
The air travel […]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup
Sunday, November 25th, 2007Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience!
Last week on Tiny Choices:
Monday: Karina discusses two American Thanksgiving traditions: leftovers and binge shopping.
Tuesday: Jenn slow-simmers some crockpot cookin’.
Wednesday: Tiny Choices Q&A: How does one live with a not-so-green partner?
Thursday: Jenn has found love with Luna the Turkey; […]
Tiny Choices Survey: Patton Dodd
Saturday, November 24th, 2007Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)?
I’m Patton Dodd. I’ll soon be 33. I live in Colorado–just north of Colorado Springs in a community called Gleneagle. It’s suburban in some of the bad ways–little mixed use development, though we’re within walking distance of a decent bar and a tasty Asian joint. Our altitude is […]
Easy Peasy Tip: Buy Nothing Day!
Friday, November 23rd, 2007Welcome to Black Friday: “…the beginning of the traditional Christmas shopping season.”
Did you really read that sentence? It’s not the “Christmas season,” but the “shopping season.”
Christmas Cheer our tiny asses, that sounds like nothing but stress, debt, and unjoy to us.
So here’s our Easy Peasy Tip for the day: don’t go shopping. Spend […]
Happy Adopt-A-Turkey Day!
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007While I spend the day gorging myself on way too much fine, homemade food (including this soup which I just finished making, yum), my thoughts turn to the cute gobbley turkeys who have been spared my metaphorical ax. So, for only $20 I went ahead and sponsored one at Farm Sanctuary.
I chose Luna–that looker […]
The Guardian: Tread Lightly!
Thursday, November 22nd, 2007Seems like The Guardian is all about tiny choices these days! They’ve recently launched a green initiative called Tread Lightly:
Tread lightly allows Guardian readers to join an online community of people who want to take personal and collective action to reduce their C02 emissions.
By making weekly pledges and recording your actions, you can see […]
Tiny Choices Q&A:
Wednesday, November 21st, 2007 Welcome 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).
Let’s face it, it’s Wednesday before Thanksgiving and odds are, you’re not getting a whole lot of work done. So let’s have an interactive day!
Ruth asks:
I’d like to hear if […]
Crockpot Cookin’
Tuesday, November 20th, 2007Megan’s post about a dinner of slow-cooked stew reminded me of my own crockpot, which mostly just gathers dust in my kitchen. I’ve used it once or twice, but found that it just kind of turned the vegetables into mush. And when all you’re eating is vegetables, mushy ones are no fun […]
Thanksgiving traditions: Leftovers and binge shopping
Monday, November 19th, 2007American Thanksgiving is coming up on Thursday, and with it comes two areas in which we can all make some tiny choices:
1. Leftovers! Thanksgiving is about food, and lots of it. Whether you’re at Auntie So-and-So’s for a giant home-cooked meal with so many guests that you have to sit with the little kids at […]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup
Sunday, November 18th, 2007Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience!
Last week on Tiny Choices:
Monday: Karina reviews Gimme Green, “a documentary about America’s obsession with lawns”
Tuesday: Jenn organizes our mail with her DIY 45rpm mail organizer!
Wednesday: Karina asks, “Do we really need deodorant?”
Thursday: Jenn loves bikelanes.
Friday: Tiny Choices […]
Easy Peasy Tip: Reduce your daily car trips!
Saturday, November 17th, 2007Did you know that the average American household makes about 13 trips per day? I’ll remind you that by saying “average household” we’re talking about 13 CAR TRIPS per day. And half of them are under three miles. According to Segway: “If these households could reduce one trip per car per day, that would result […]
Quote of the Day: Edward Abbey
Friday, November 16th, 2007Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
–Edward Abbey
Tiny Choices Survey: Jennifer Floyd
Friday, November 16th, 2007Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)?
Jennifer Floyd, 31, San Diego, CA
How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
I live with my boyfriend, renting the downstairs of my boyfriend’s mom in a huge house. It’s mostly by choice, though the very cheap […]
On Bikelanes…
Thursday, November 15th, 2007My folks recently returned from a trip to Hungary, where my dad snapped the photo you see there on the left. I am in love with that stoplight. Besides the fact that it’s soooo cuttteeee (”Hello bicycles! You may proceed now! Hello bicycles! Please stop now!”) it’s a sure sign […]
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