Archive for January, 2009
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Monday, January 12th, 2009This weekend Jenn and I went away for the weekend with a group of friends to a semi-remote location. It’s about 3 hours away and in the Catskills way off of the beaten path, and we weren’t sure until the last minute how all of us would get there. In the past, I would drive [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup!
Sunday, January 11th, 2009Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina talks about the fuel savings of roundabouts. Also, what are your green resolutions for 2009? Tuesday Jenn makes the switch to hankies! Wednesday: Karina wonders why conservation is such a dirty word, and [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Eat your Pantry!
Saturday, January 10th, 2009Are you on an organizational blitz? are you sorting and discarding and donating and using what you have? Take this chance to sort through your pantry and eat through the weird stuff that clutters the corners. Bolster your meals of marinated mushrooms or stuffed grape leaves with fresh ingredients! Make it into a game, and [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Michele!
Friday, January 9th, 2009Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Michele, 43, Astoria, NY How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Rent-stabilized one-bedroom in a really cool building in which practically everyone belongs to one family except myself and my partner. Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. Both. We want to [...]
Quotes of the Day: Henry David Thoreau
Thursday, January 8th, 2009“Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! We are happy in proportion to the things we can do without.” ******************* “As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness.” ******************* “Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or [...]
Datebook ’09
Thursday, January 8th, 2009If you’ll recall the Great Datebook Saga of ’08 (and really, who could forget it?), you can imagine I was a bit hesitant in deciding how to approach Datebook ’09. Clearly I didn’t want to repeat my mistake of carrying around what amounted to a particularly environmentally-unfriendly datebook, and a reminder of a careless Tiny [...]
Time Magazine: for efficiency, against conservation?
Wednesday, January 7th, 2009Did y’all see the article in Time Magazine last week? It’s called “America’s Untapped Energy Resource: Boosting Efficiency,” and it starts out really good. The author (Michael Grunwald) begins by alluding to a magical fix for all of our energy problems – one that is cheap, readily accessible, and immediately available. And then when he [...]
Tissues Vs. Hankies: Gesundheit!
Tuesday, January 6th, 2009Hello 2009, I’m sick. It’s an interesting way to start a new year, slow and deliberate and sniffly… and it’s lead me to think about tissues & hankies. Again. As noted many times before, I’ve already stopped buying disposable paper napkins and paper towels, and have replaced them with cloth napkins and reusable rags, with [...]
Green Resolutions for 2009
Monday, January 5th, 2009Allie over at Allie’s Answers continues to inspire me! She listed her green new years resolutions, and they are a really great set of goals. It got me to go back and find our goals from 2008, to check in on how I did — I had resolved to not take any disposable cups any [...]
Roundabouts
Monday, January 5th, 2009You all know that I’m mildly interested in traffic flow and urban planning – if my post on jug-handles didn’t give it away, then I’m telling you straight-out now! I’ve been thinking about roundabouts* a lot lately – for starters, I live in a town with a roundabout right next to the train station. About [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup!
Sunday, January 4th, 2009Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina finds some frustration free packaging courtesy Amazon.com. Tuesday Jenn reports back on some ways India makes Tiny Choices. Also the winners of the unpaper towel giveaway are announced! Wednesday: Jenn really surprises [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Repair It!
Saturday, January 3rd, 2009When something breaks, repair it! Whether it’s a hole in a coat pocket, a zipper on a sleeping bag, or a bike with broken gears, chances are a fix will be relatively quick and tremendously cheaper than replacing the item. Our consumer culture has been persuasively convincing us that Broken = Trash…whereas it’s actually much [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Tim!
Friday, January 2nd, 2009Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)?How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Tim, 38, Woodside Queens. I live in a one bedroom apartment that I divided into a two bedroom, but I also spend a lot of time upstate on my family’s farm. Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? [...]
Happy Eco New Year!
Thursday, January 1st, 2009You know, there’s really something about that New York Times – they’re always presenting really interesting news, and in a very timely fashion! Here are a couple of articles that are just that – timely, and interesting! 1. More Information about the LED Lights in Times Square! Last year we reported that they had swapped [...]
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