Well, thanks to your post this morning, I’m switching my laundry detergent to Soap Nuts! (Though I did find a less expensive seller of organic soap nuts on Ebay - with free shipping - I’m a frugal eco girl!)

ooh, i’d love these hankies!

one new-to-me tiny choice i made recently, eh?… this may seem ridiculously small, but i hate those styrofoam containers that takeout often comes in. not only do they not biodegrade, but they take up a lot of space in my fridge, and then in my trash! we only eat take-out about once a week, but still, they bother me. so my new tiny choice lately has been to purposely order dishes that i know will NOT come in styro - burritos, wraps, sandwiches, etc. usually come wrapped in paper for example. some other places use foil containers too. still disposable, but at least the paper will biodegrade, the foil is recyclable, and it takes up a lot less space for transportation, storage, and waste.

I recently started making my own detergent. I also have started a compost pile about a week ago, which I am SO excited about. I also starting cloth diapering my two sons about a month or two ago. It’s been a big year for me!

Ooh, these look nice. I started buying more grains in bulk. I got some glass jars from Ikea to store them in — the remainder will stay in the cool basement.

my most recent tiny choice has been using cornstarch and baking soda instead of deodorant. it’s taken me a little while to figure out the right formula, but it actually works really well - and my skin is much happier. i read about it at “One Green Generation:”

http://1greengeneration.elementsintime.com/?p=596

and i really do want to switch from tissues to hankies! =)

No more paper straws! I just bought an easiiy portable sturdy glass straw (and a custom made cotton cozy for it) from glassdharma.com. If it breaks, they say they will replace it. I like the ones with glass “dots” which inhibit rolling on a surface, if you put it down.

Reena

I continue to train myself on the items I can compost and realized how many tea bags my husband and I use a week. I will now be composting ALL our teabags instead of tossing them. I also very much want to use these awesome hankies and buy less recycled tissues. Hope I win!! (fingers crossed!)

What a coincidence - I had a cold all last week, and vowed that by my next cold I would get a hanky set. The sight of all those Puffs Plus (which, despite their claims to have “lotion” on them, had rubbed my nose raw by the second day) in the trash was a frightening thing!

My latest Tiny Choice: joining a new gym. (I know gyms aren’t the most environmentally friendly choice one can make, but I won’t exercise without one!) My old gym was a lovely place, and had recently made some great eco-friendly upgrades - yet I was driving 10 miles each way to get there (public transit wasn’t an option, as I would have had to take a train and two buses, plus a long walk). My new gym is just a few blocks from my office, so I can walk there after work - no car required.

Also, my new gym is much more stingy with the towels (you have to ask for them, rather than grabbing a stack off a shelf) - so I find myself using half as many as I did at my old gym, thereby saving water, detergent and energy.

I love your blog! And I love hankies!!

I’ve finally used my last paper napkin–including ones from birthdays (A Bug’s Life and Toy Story anyone?) Hanukkah, Christmas, New Years, etc. and we’re now exclusively using thrifted cloth napkins every day. It’s really much more pleasant.

I’ve started a garden! There’s a neglected ‘greenhouse’ (clear tarp which makes things warm) on the corner of the property I have a rental on, and I was told I could use it. I cleared away all the dead stuff last weekend and ordered 20 organic veggie seed packets yesterday to get me started. Hopefully I’ll be growing most of my own veggies this summer : )

I have a dog and buy biodegradable bags to clean up after her. I noticed that our family always throws away plastic bags from cereals, bread, and other purchases that come prewrapped in plastic bags. I’ve been saving those bags as well as ready to throw away-used multiple times plastic bags to use as dog bags too. Sometimes when a bag is long, I’ll cut it in half and knot it at the bottom and get two dog bags out of it. By the way, these are plastic bags that would normally just get thrown away rather than reused to hold other things.

Cloth grocery bags and napkins are my newest tiny choices. I can’t even use a paper towel at work without feeling guilty about the waste ;-)

Fab giveaway - I’m always needing more hankies!

I love this giveaway! I have been wanting to use cloth hankies for a while but haven’t made the change. A new to me change is that I have started “sewing” meaning that I am learning slowly. But today I mended some of my clothes and tonight I am going to mend a duvet cover!

i just found a cloth coffee filter for my cup in the morning, and am saving the grounds for my family’s gardens!

Hi, I’ve just started a green cleaning business. I’m very excited about it.

We are crashing into green! We have three diapered kids around here, and are ponying up the $700 to get a cloth setup. We’re also getting rid of other disposable products - so I’ve bought up some sheets from the thrift shop to make into hankies and napkins. We might even try to ditch TP. And finally, I have just started a worm farm for easy, fast composting. I heart my worms!

These hankies look lovely! Bet they’re nicer than my sheet hankies will be. And I adore your blog. It’s on my blogroll now. :)

Now to go read about soapnuts!

I keep utensils, a bowl, mug, napkin, etc at my desk so I don’t create as much waste when I eat lunch at work. However, I seem to end up eating out more than not [I know, I know] with all the waste that entails including the decision whether to ask for a doggie bag [usually plastic or, shudder, styrofoam], waste the food by leaving it behind, or eat more than is comfortable.

I finally had an inspiration and now keep a a “restaurant kit” for those occasions — plastic utensils from previous ill-prepared-for meals, cloth napkin, empty tea bottle to fill with water, and a plastic container [re-used, of course] for any leftovers. I’m not quite in the habit of remembering it every time I go out and I’ve run across the situation where the container is sitting in the office fridge with previous leftovers when I need it but I like the system enough to work on those issues. I keep my kit in a shopping bag I rarely used because its handles were too short — it has a drawstring top so it keeps everything neat and ready to grab as I go.

I finally bought a bike and actually biked/walked to the Farmer’s Market this past weekend instead of driving.

I’ve been using canvas bags for my groceries but I always forget to bring them to Target or other stores. So I bought a couple of bags that can be folded up into tiny pouches and kept in my purse. No more Target bags for me!

And two months ago, after getting frustrated that I left my canvas bags in the car once again, I began telling the baggers just to reload my groceries into my cart after checkout and I just bag them at the car if I forget. Now I never need those plastic bags!

My latest green achievement seems small, but makes a big impact on my waste production: at work, I reuse post-its, save my fruit peels (for the compost bin at home), and encourage everyone around me to recycle. From the reception desk, I save almost a whole post-it pack a week (I’m a sucker for stickies!), bring home about a dozen apple cores/banana peels/orange peels to feed to the worms, and save dozens of aluminum cans and plastic bottles from the garbage can. I try to “live out loud” (without being obnoxious) to encourage
Also, I recently started bringing utensils and cloth napkins from home to eat lunch. I’ve always brought lunch, but I used to use the plastic disposables and paper napkins provided by my employer.
Good contest … I hope I win!

After cutting down my kitchen trash significantly, I realized that I throw away a lot of compostable trash in the bathroom (cotton swabs, bits of kleenex), so I repurposed a yogurt tub as a “compost bin” in my bathroom.

I would love hankies!

we’ve been using cloth napkins

I have started making my own cleaning products, shampoo and conditioner. There will be more to come as I use up other things. Next on the list is composting!

I just got two Chico bags that are always in my purse. It’s great, I’ve only used one plastic bag this year! I always seemed to get stuck at Target or elsewhere without a bag, but no more!

Oh! so nice and soft!
My teeny tiny choice this week was to realize what else I can compost. I have a very friendly bunny who lives with me. But she’s big, and produces a lot of litter in a week. A friend of mine who is into worms (he actually has a degree in worms-crazy huh?) told me worms love bunny litter. So now, instead of packaging it up, out it goes! I haven’t been able to see if it makes for good fertilizer yet, since it’s winter, but I’m hoping in the spring I have some nice dirt from all that bunny litter!

Actually, I just started using hankies! I only had one before (and hardly used it), but a couple weeks ago I bought some more on Etsy. I found a seller who was willing to find me some cool vintage ones and silkscreen designs on to them!

Reusable cloth bags for *everything* — shopping, lunches, general sclepping stuff from here to there.

Oh, well this is perfect because on tiny green choice I made this year is to stop using tissues and only use hankies! I could really use these!!

I cut up old spent kitchen and bath towels into 4ths, sewed a quick seam around the edge with leftover thread in colors I normally don’t use for projects so the clothes wouldn’t fray (an issue for some in my house & why they wouldnt’ use them) and stashed them under every sink in the house for dust, cleaning, shop cloths. We use these instead of paper towels or sponges. I store them under my sinks in either a paper 6 pack holder or paper gift bags that have seen much better days because they’ve been reused so often.

I have made many changes. I keep reuseable grocery bags on the coat hook by the front door, so I don’t forget them when I go to the market. I haven’t bought paper plates, cups, or napkins since I became aware of being “Green” last year, and basically decided that if something is “disposable”, I don’t buy it.

We use cut up old socks and t shirts to wash counters and do not buy many paper towels

I stopped buying paper towels and now use cut up clean but stained shirts

planting new trees……..of course

We changed our light bulbs to the new energy efficient ones.

I have been thinking about getting some hankies! :)
My newest tiny choice is buying more things in bulk. I used to only buy food in bulk, but now I recently started buying my shampoo in bulk from the local co-op and reusing the bottles.

I want these hankies badly! I am eyeing my one hanky (that Tiny Choices inspired me to fish out of my shmatta collection) and thinking that I need more than one to make this change sustainable over time.

Another tiny choice I’ve made recently is to go back to being a working member at my local coop, the fabulous 4th St. Coop. It’s in the East Village, and is the only food coop in Manhattan. We’re welcoming new members, and I’ll be the one to process your application if you make the happy plunge :)

What a great giveaway! I finally got a stainless steel water bottle so I don’t have to use plastic as much.

I’m starting to get into reusable items more, such as considering purchasing the MoonCup, after all of our disposable dishes/cups are gone we’ll use our real stuff, (I don’t mind getting my hands dirty more to save money and the environment) etc. This would be a great step.. give myself and my fiance hankies to use instead of our Kleenex. :) Thank you so much for offering this giveaway! eyeslikesugar [at] gmail [dot] com

My latest change is to switch all electrical appliances/devices to power strips that can be turned off when not in use.

I have allergies, so I can really use some hankies. I do buy tissues with recycled content, but these would feel much nicer! (I also just bought a nice vacuum to help prevent allergies and am freecycling the old one.)

Using reusable cloth bags for grocery shopping and running errands is new to me.

I made my first batch of homemade scouring powder and cleaned the bathroom and kitchen with it just today. Everything smells like lavender, and it worked great. The only cleaning products I buy are as natural as I can find.

Just used Recycling for Charities link to donate old phones & chargers, an Easy Peezey! Thanks, for al the great tips!

Newest tiny choice - walking to the grocery store and the gym because they are both about a mile away, and walking is good for the soul!

I finally enrolled in a series of Master Gardening and Organic Gardening classes. I love gardening and now, through these programs, I will have the opportunities to promote and share strategies that involve utilizing non-synthetic ways to maintain and nourish gardens. I feel like each “tiny step” I make in my garden can bring about larger, meaningful changes. Hooray!

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I recently purchased a dehydrator. Now I can go to the local Farmer’s Market and preserve some of the produce purchased without using a lot of energy and with minimum storage. I also eat mostly raw foods and buy almost no processed products. I walk to the market and take my own bags.