Archive for November, 2008
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Sunday, November 30th, 2008Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina updates us on Lush and their follow-through to reduce packaging. Tuesday Jenn ponders the amount of DIY vs BUY she does. Wednesday: Karina steels her stomach for BLACK FRIDAY, which strikes again! Thursday: [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Buy Recycled!
Saturday, November 29th, 2008When you’ve got a choice between purchasing a Widget made from non-recycled materials or a Widget made from recycled materials, choose the recycled Widget (assuming, of course, that you really need that Widget in the first place). The more recycled materials that manufacturers use, the less virgin material (wood chopped, plastic produced, metal mined) needs [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Miranda!
Friday, November 28th, 2008Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Miranda, 23, Amherst, Massachusetts, http://pedexing.blogspot.com How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? I live with my roommate in a two bedroom apartment. Maybe this doesn’t count, but I’m also a two minute walk away from my closest friend in town, which is kind of like having [...]
Thai Bottle Temple
Thursday, November 27th, 2008Hello, LOVE! Love love LOVE this. Love. So, there were these Thai monks who wanted to build a new temple. They started collecting green and brown glass bottles with which to build– and check out this slideshow of their magnificent creation, containing over one million bottles. Their outhouse and crematorium are also made of bottles, [...]
Black Friday Strikes Again!
Wednesday, November 26th, 2008We’ve rolled around to another Thanksgiving – which means it’s another Black Friday! Which means the traditional combination of binge eating and binge shopping. Last year we talked about celebrating Buy Nothing Day – which is going on again this year! This year, after speaking to a couple of loved ones and dear friends, I [...]
DIY vs. BUY
Tuesday, November 25th, 2008As I sat on my couch crocheting yet another dish scrubbie (can you guess what everyone’s getting for the holidays this year?) I thought about things I’ve stopped buying and started making/reusing/repurposing lately: Well, I gave up my beloved Dobies and started making dish scrubbies from vintage scratchy acrylic yarn, the better to clean dishes [...]
Lush – following through, being awesome, taking names
Monday, November 24th, 2008I posted over the summer that I’d heard a LUSH RUMOR: that they would be dropping the use of plastic bags all together. I think it’s really happened! I was gifted with a bag of soaps from Lush this weekend and the bright yellow bag itself had this written on it: “YELLOW BAG ASKS: ‘Is [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup
Sunday, November 23rd, 2008Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina gushes about Chico bags and the Team Tiny Choices love for them. Also – Hey! Submit to the Carnival of Green Crafts! Tuesday: Jenn shares an awesome opportunity to Knit for Good - [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Drink Loose Tea!
Saturday, November 22nd, 2008If you’re a tea drinker, consider switching to loose-leaf tea instead of teabags. By making this small switch you’ll save: Trees being chopped for the teabag paper, and the resulting paper being produced and shipped Cotton being grown and sprayed for the string, and that cotten being bleached, manufactured into string, and shipped around Trees [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Meredith!
Friday, November 21st, 2008Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Meredith; 29 and holding; Wynantskill, NY How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? My boyfriend, Dan, and I just purchased our very first home and I wouldn’t trade it for the world. Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. I would say [...]
Teachin’ The Children Well
Thursday, November 20th, 2008Those kids there on the left are my two nieces who make up half of my niece/nephew contingent, attentively listening while I read to them from “The Three R’s: Reuse, Reduce, Recycle.“ Last summer our whole clan went on a family camping trip, and I thought it would be a great time to start brainwashing [...]
Brita to take back filters!
Wednesday, November 19th, 2008Have y’all heard the news? Beth over at Fake Plastic Fish posted yesterday that Brita, in cooperation with Recycline, will start to take back and recycle the filters for their pitchers. This is such exciting news! You can read the full press release here. The filters will be collected at Whole Foods markets starting in [...]
DIY: Scarves for Charity
Tuesday, November 18th, 2008You know all those bits of beautiful leftover yarn in your crafty stash from knitting and crochet projects you’ve finished? Put them to good use by making a scarf for the sixth annual Supernaturale Scarf Drive! Handmade scarves are collected and given as holiday gifts to women at Sanctuary for Families, a non-profit which assists [...]
Submit to the Carnival of Green Crafts!
Monday, November 17th, 2008Y’all know that Jenn and Karina love getting crafty. (Here is your aweome tidbit of personal information about Team Tiny Choices: Jenn and Karina first met on the internet! They were both active members of a (now-defunct) crafty bulletin board. Eight years later, and they are still BFF. Another internet success story!) Anyway, there is [...]
Chico Bags
Monday, November 17th, 2008You may have noticed that Team Tiny Choices really loves our chico bags. We’ve mentioned it before in passing. Jenn and I have passed Chico Bags between us as gifts for a couple of years now, and it is really and entirely the gift that keeps on giving. I found out a couple of neat-o [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Round Up
Sunday, November 16th, 2008Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina reviews the amazing new book “Knitting For Good” by Friend of Tiny Choices Betsy Greer! Tuesday: Jenn is still hung up on BPA and our silly FDA. Wednesday: Karina dishes on preserving food [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Borrow, Don’t Buy!
Saturday, November 15th, 2008As Karina mentioned in Easy Peasy Tip: Do a Green Good Deed!, sometimes the greenest option is to borrow an item we only need temporarily, instead of to buy it. For example, before a recent trip, Karina asked a bunch of friends if anyone had a plastic soap dish she could use– and Jenn gladly [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Maggie S.!
Friday, November 14th, 2008Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Maggie S., 29, Seattle WA, http://www.mizrobot.livejournal.com How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates) I live in a 550sf one-bedroom apartment by myself. Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. Definitely by choice. I enjoy living by myself and sacrifice on space and [...]
Alternative Energies: What’s Your Vote?
Thursday, November 13th, 2008Dream big, and vote on your favorite alternative energy source– then in the comments, please tell us why! Perhaps you’ve studied the economics and weighed the pros and cons of these options, and have deduced your favorite from hard data. Or maybe you love the concept of hydro power but aren’t sure how it holds [...]
Preserving Food
Wednesday, November 12th, 2008I’m reaching the end of my CSA season, and I am ashamed to admit that I am a tiny bit relieved. It is hard work, y’all, eating all of those vegetables every week! And I know that I let a lot of food go to waste this year that I really shouldn’t have. (Parsnips, I [...]
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