Archive for January, 2009
« Previous EntriesEasy Peasy Tip: Reduce your High Fructose Corn Syrup
Saturday, January 31st, 2009Dietitians have been telling us to reduce our intake of high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), but let’s face it - some of us love our non-diet sodas. Here’s more incentive for you: turns out that there may be mercury contaminating your HFCS filled food. A recent study turned up approximately 30% of off-the-shelf foods bought […]
Tiny Choices Survey: Stephanie!
Friday, January 30th, 2009Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)?
Stephanie 30-something, The Emerald Valley, Oregon, www.recycleyourmat.com, www.yogajournal.com (RecycleYogi), www.yogamates.com (RecycleYogi)
How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)?
House
Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
Choice. The house provides a nice asset for starting a business.
How do you travel (transit, car, etc)? Are your travel decisions […]
Eco-Crafty Heaven
Thursday, January 29th, 2009I love the CraftStylish blog– it’s always packed full of really great and inspiring DIY crafty projects. And, this month it’s got the added bonus of being supercrafty and supergreen, as all of the projects posted during January are made with the environment in mind:
“In the spirit of recovery (and in the continued celebration of […]
Rock on with your eco-self, Price Chopper!
Wednesday, January 28th, 2009I was grocery shopping at a Price Chopper supermarket in Middletown NY Monday night and when I brought my three items (one needed, two impulse - hey, did you know there is hemp milk available now?) up to the register, I was thrilled to see a little sticker with the following information:
* RE-USE A BAG: […]
Guest Post: Grow-Your-Own in the Churchyard
Tuesday, January 27th, 2009Tiny Choices welcomes this guest post from friend, colleague, and writer/editor extraordinaire, Holly Rossi:
A big thanks to Jenn for this invitation to guest-post. Tiny Choices has been on my “read every day” list for a long time now, it’s fun to be part of the conversation!
“Grow-your-own-food” can be a tiny choice or a big […]
Inauguration Garbage!
Monday, January 26th, 2009When I was at the Inauguration last week, there was something that you just couldn’t miss - the huge amounts of litter everywhere. As my inauguration partner said: Wouldn’t it have been great if President Obama could have ended his speech with a call to pick up one piece of trash on our way off […]
Tiny Choices Weekly Round Up!
Sunday, January 25th, 2009Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience!
Last week on Tiny Choices:
Monday: Karina tells us about some green inaugural events going down!
Tuesday Jenn talks tumeric dye; also, she’s asks about your take on “Yes We Can”…
Wednesday: Karina tells us how she packed for the inauguration: […]
Easy Peasy Tip: Save your Shower Curtain!
Saturday, January 24th, 2009Let’s face it - often the grossest part of the bathroom is the shower curtain. It gets moldy and dank and never seems to dry out. Worse, it’s hard to clean - mold is tough to get off, and even though many shower curtains can go through the wash it never seems to work out […]
Tiny Choices Survey: Piers!
Friday, January 23rd, 2009Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)?
Piers, 50, Udaipur, Rajasthan, India. I live in a stone-built, hilltop house in a rural area near to the city of Udaipur.
Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
We designed and built the house as an ambient […]
Dish Soap, Revisited
Thursday, January 22nd, 2009It’s time again to talk about dish soap. Because I’m almost out of dish soap.
A couple of months ago, as you undoubtedly recall, I had an encounter with crazy expensive bulk dish soap– and since I’m not looking to replicate that experience, it’s now time to either just buy another bottle of detergent or […]
Inauguration: Packing well
Wednesday, January 21st, 2009Are you tired of hearing about how lucky I am to have attended the inauguration, even if it was from the mall with the other crowds? Just you wait - while I was out there yesterday I found lots and lots of things to write posts about.
So, when people heard I was going to hit […]
Yes We Can… If We Try
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009[Gorgeous (but sold-out poster) by Scott Hansen]
I’m viewing the new Obama administration not as a potential cure-all for the varied and deep issues this country faces, but as an incentive and inspiration to “be the change I wish to see in the world.” For me, this means more Tiny Choices direct actions, taking it offline […]
DIY: Natural Dyeing
Tuesday, January 20th, 2009So I went to Ikea this weekend, and bought two unbleached cotton bedspreads for a project I’ve been planning (over on the left side of that photo, there <-). Once I got them home I realized that, while I appreciate the environmentally-friendliness of the natural cotton, the color wasn’t exactly right for what I had […]
Celebrating the Inauguration the Green Way
Monday, January 19th, 2009I’m really excited to tell y’all that on Tuesday, I’ll be in Washington DC with up to 2 million (plus!) of my new best friends gawking at crowds and enjoying the inauguration. I don’t have tickets, but my beau’s brother lives near by in MD so we are taking advantage of the family connection and […]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup!
Sunday, January 18th, 2009Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience!
Last week on Tiny Choices:
Monday: Karina wonders how best to manage transportation when you’re in a big group.
Tuesday Jenn scores some new vintage hankies!
Wednesday: Karina finds out that Peer Pressure helps us make Tiny Choices.
Thursday: Jenn reveals that […]
Easy Peasy Tip: Bring Your Mug!
Saturday, January 17th, 2009This Easy Peasy Tip is pretty self-explanatory—but if we all brought our own mugs and skipped the paper or styrofoam disposables, we’d save massive amounts of pollution and waste. Ask Pablo ran the numbers and confirms that reusable mugs trump disposables: “What is clear is that reusable is better than disposable, assuming that you […]
Tiny Choices Survey: Lisa!
Friday, January 16th, 2009Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)?
Lisa Ko, 33, Brooklyn, NY, http://incommunicado.net
How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)?
I live alone in a rented one-room studio apartment.
Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
Both. I’m a freelance writer that often works and writes at home, so I like having space to […]
Aliens Attack Wind Turbines!
Thursday, January 15th, 2009Ok, not really. But maybe…
A turbine on a wind farm on the eastern coast of England has been severely damaged, confounding engineers and locals alike– and the most exciting explanation involves aliens! One of the turbine blades was sheared off, which is apparently not at all a common or particularly understandable event, and it wrecked […]
Peer Pressure helps us make Tiny Choices
Wednesday, January 14th, 2009I heard a great tip on Marketplace about how peer pressure is possibly even MORE influential than just your typical do-gooder urges when it comes to making environmental choices.
Research shows, apparently, that we have a herd-like mentality when it comes to decision making and that we are always trying to do as good as our […]
Hankies, Again
Tuesday, January 13th, 2009Well, I just received my eBay score of vintage, unused hankies in the mail today and am kind of glad that my cold has hung around this long, so I can give them a test run. For a total of $10.50 I got 16 hankies– seems like this investment will pay itself back […]
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