Archive for May, 2008
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina has a new experiment, and it’s to try and drive the speed limit for better gas mileage. Also, don’t forget to tell us your April Tiny Challenge story for the wrap-up post! Tuesday: [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Donate Old Eyeglass Frames
Saturday, May 10th, 2008When you’re finished using an old pair of eyeglasses, don’t toss the frames– donate them to a worthy charity instead. This small step helps keep trash out of the waste stream, while providing the gift of clear vision to someone in need. The Lions Club accepts frames either by mail or at a drop-off center, [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Kristine
Friday, May 9th, 2008Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Kristine, almost 60 (omg!!!) Albany, NY How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Small apartment, no roommates. Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. I choose to live in an an apartment, but it’s also dictated by being divorced, truck almost died, [...]
DIY: Self-Watering Plants
Thursday, May 8th, 2008For someone who loves the nature so very much, I’ve got quite a brown thumb. The only two plants I’ve managed to keep alive for any length of time are four stalks of bamboo (which live in a vase of water and are thus impervious to my care) and some small aloe plants. Everything else [...]
Is Vinegar made from petroleum?
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008We talk a lot about using vinegar as a cleaning product – in fact, the entire eco-cleaning and frugal community talk about it a lot, too. But a friend of mine tipped me off to a potential problem with vinegar – turns out that some vinegars may be made from petroleum. When my friend told [...]
“Microbead” Facial Scrubs
Tuesday, May 6th, 2008So, you’ve heard of those “microbead” facial and body scrubs? Ever wonder what the microbeads are made of? As it turns out, they’re actually tiny balls of polyethylene plastic: From Orion Magazine: “[PhD student Mark Browne] selects a peach-colored tube of St. Ives Apricot Scrub; its label reads: 100% natural exfoliants. “This stuff is okay. [...]
April Tiny Challenge: Tell Us Your Story
Monday, May 5th, 2008Back in the beginning of April, we double-dog-dared you to join us in the April Tiny Challenge, wherein we all committed to implement a new tiny, or not so tiny, eco-choice for the month. Approximately 45 intrepedatious folks left comments declaring their intentions on that first post, with check-ins following at Week 1, Week 2, [...]
May Experiment: Driving Slower!
Monday, May 5th, 2008After this weekend’s Easy Peasy Tip, I am so curious about the effect that driving the speed limit will have on my mileage. I posted before that I am not the lead-foot that I used to be – but that’s not entirely true. I still drive pretty fast. Since I wrote that other post last [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup
Sunday, May 4th, 2008Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina is totally totally excited about a new petition asking Clorox to start a Brita Filter recycling program in the USA. (go sign it!) And! we have a winner for the awesome new book [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Drive Slower!
Saturday, May 3rd, 2008We have talked about driving slower before, but this one deserves it’s own tip with statistics like this to back it up: With gas at $4 a gallon, a driver with a long commute – 400 miles a week – and a gas-guzzling vehicle getting only 20 mpg would save $18.74 a week by slowing [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Marleah
Friday, May 2nd, 2008Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Marleah, 23, western Kansas. My (semi-new!) blog is at http://marleah.wordpress.com How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? My husband and I live together in a 2 bedroom, 1 bathroom house along with two cats and one dog. Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? [...]
Bikes, Bikes, and More Bikes
Thursday, May 1st, 2008Spring is in the air, and with it comes bicycles! Seems like it’s time to dust off my bike, inflate my winter-flats, and start two-wheeling it again… and that’s a lovely thing. Biking in NYC is quite literally a death-defying act, but the benefits are so darn rewarding– great exercise, fewer cars, less pollution, and [...]
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