Archive for June, 2008
« Previous EntriesSustainable Art Waterfalls in NYC
Monday, June 30th, 2008Have you heard about the waterfalls that just opened in NYC? There are four of them - scaffolding constructed between 90 and 120 feet tall. They’re located at the base of the Brooklyn and Manhattan Bridges, on a pier in Brooklyn, and on Governors Island. They will probably come to mean many things to many [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup
Sunday, June 29th, 2008Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina dishes on her favorite way to enjoy ice cream. Tuesday: Jenn updates us on NYCs first new bikeshare program! Wednesday: Karina waxes enthusiastic about thin film solar. Thursday: Jenn flirts with green dating. [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Grow A Windowsill Garden!
Saturday, June 28th, 2008You might not have outdoor space for a full-on vegetable garden (neither of us do, either), but it’s entirely possible to grow a few things indoors, on a sunny windowsill or floor space. Most herbs will do well in pots, and even cherry tomatoes and salad greens can be grown successfully with care and attention. [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Elaine!
Friday, June 27th, 2008Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Elaine Haig-Widner, 37, Mountlake Terrace WA, www.knitbean.com Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. My partner and I live in our own (small) home, purchased in 2002. How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? We wanted to buy a house, but with [...]
Greening Your Dating
Thursday, June 26th, 2008If you’re single, green, and looking for a pardner, there are now some ways to make an eco-match easier! ————————- Our favorite LA green blogger Siel repoprted on Green Speed Dating: “For diehard environmentalists who only date people with low carbon footprints, there’s now Green Speed Dating”: From the Green Speed Dating Meetup: “Single and [...]
Tiny and Not So Tiny Home Choices
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008I came across this article yesterday and it is so exciting! I am ashamed to admit that in the last few months I’ve fallen woefully behind in environmental tech news, so while I knew that thin film solar technologies were out there, I didn’t realize that they were hitting mass production (and hitting the rooftops!).I’m [...]
NYC’s First Bikesharing Program!
Tuesday, June 24th, 2008Wow, I’m so thrilled to read about the City’s first bikeshare- though it’s limited to Governors Island, and only on certain Fridays, it’s a groundbreaking initiative: From Treehugger: “Governors Island Preservation and Education Corporation (GIPEC), Transportation Alternatives and Bike and Roll have joined forces to create a bike share program, and every Friday between now [...]
Keeping Ice Cream Consumption Green
Monday, June 23rd, 2008It’s summertime around here, and I don’t know about y’all, but I love to eat ice cream, and summer is the best excuse there is to eat it. I love it so much that I don’t permit myself to keep a container of it in the freezer, because I will for sure eat the entire [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina educates us on the “Drive Smarter Challange” Tuesday: Jenn updates us on her natural body care choices Wednesday: Karina DIYs her dish soap Thursday: Jenn discusses heading off climate change Friday: Tiny Choices [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Make Iced Tea!
Saturday, June 21st, 2008Now that the weather’s warmer and the days longer, we find ourselves drinking lots and lots of cool drinks. However, purchasing drinks when you’re out and about is both expensive and wasteful- all those bottles just become trash once you’re done with the drink, which is an eco-shame. So, save up some of those glass [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Rebecca!
Friday, June 20th, 2008Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Rebecca, 29, Essex County, MA, http://prwdot.org How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? In a 580sq/ft Condex with my husband and 2yo daughter. Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. Choice. We bought this place so we could have a little deck [...]
Hello, Future Survey Takers!
Thursday, June 19th, 2008Admit it. You’ve always wanted to take the Tiny Choices Survey, haven’t you? So, go ahead- answer the questions, then email them to us at: tinychoices AT tinychoices DOT com, along with a photo of yourself (we can crop it for you). And, thanks for being a part of the Tiny Choices family! Love always, [...]
Preemptive Strike Against Climate Change
Thursday, June 19th, 2008I love this article my buddy MickeyZ wrote- it struck a chord deep inside me. I think oftentimes this whole “green thing” is seen as a hassle, a burden, a big deal requiring a whole lot of pain-in-the-butt changes. But what if we collectively shift our thinking so that “green” is just a small thing, [...]
Homemade Liquid Dish Detergent
Wednesday, June 18th, 2008Jenn and I have talked in the past about making homemade soap or detergent, and as I came to the end of my last bottle of Trader Joe’s liquid dish soap, I decided to give it a whirl. Turns out, though, that while there are lots of recipes for powdered dish detergent for machines on [...]
Update: Natural Body Care
Tuesday, June 17th, 2008I wanted to update ya’ll on the state of affairs here at Casa Jenn, specifically, the various choices I’ve made towards greening up my body care. Deodorant: I don’t often use deodorant, mostly because I don’t often remember to apply it- but when I do, the Tom’s of Maine unscented stuff works pretty well, even [...]
The Drive Smarter Challenge
Monday, June 16th, 2008We got a heads up from the people over at the Drive Smarter Challenge letting us know about their campaign to, well, Drive Smarter. This definately ties into my recent experimenting with driving techniques to get better gas mileage. So I tried it out and based on the calculator, I can save about $194 annually [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup
Sunday, June 15th, 2008Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina is bubbly over her new seltzer maker. Tuesday: Jenn searches for an eco-friendly face-happy SPF. Wednesday: Karina proposes a new way to analyze gasoline use: miles per dollar! Thursday: Jenn is in a [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Make Veggie Stock!
Saturday, June 14th, 2008When you’re cooking a lot of vegetables during the summer you end up with a lot of vegetable peelings and scrapings. Rather than worry about how to compost them (though there are a lot of great options out there), how about turning those vegetable peelings into tasty and useful veggie stock? Vegeyum writes: Form the [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Danielle!
Friday, June 13th, 2008Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Danielle Wehunt, 25, Athens GA, http://deshack.com How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? I live in a 4 bedroom, 3 bath house with my fiance and… here it comes… with my Mother. Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. Strictly by necessity. [...]
Bikram: Environmental Foe?
Thursday, June 12th, 2008What better time to start a Bikram Yoga (aka “hot yoga”) practice than during the first heatwave of the year? Sometimes I question my own sanity, but when my friend Valerie and I decided to get off our cubicled butts and commit to a 3x-per-week-for-a-month Bikram practice in order to get our bodies moving again, [...]
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