Archive for March, 2009
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Sunday, March 15th, 2009Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina gives the dirt on why there’s no such thing as clean coal. Tuesday: Jenn exhibits the best and the brightest posts on Spring Cleaning, via the Green Moms Carnival. Also, a quote from [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Just Say No
Saturday, March 14th, 2009The next time you’re offered something you really don’t need, and which would very likely end up in the trash bin, just say “No, thanks” Here’s a napkin for your drink… “No, thanks!” Here’s a bag for your toothpicks… “No, thanks!” Here’s a free sample of megahold hair gel… “No, thanks!” Here’s a flyer for [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Loren!
Friday, March 13th, 2009Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Loren Talbot, 35, Sunnyside, NY, LocalLabels.com How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Happily- in an apartment in Sunnyside, Queens with my boyfriend. We have an amazing view of the city and if I sneak up on to the roof I can see all the bridges [...]
Tiny Choices Giveaway: Soap Nuts!
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Based on the incredibly enthusiastic reader response to our soap nuts review, Lisa over at LaundryTree.com has donated 10 sample bags of soapnuts for 10 lucky readers! (the sample bags are the little cotton drawstring pouches in the photo). From their site: LaundryTree Soapnut Sample – 20 grams If you’ve never tried soapnuts before, this [...]
It’s Maple Syrup Time
Thursday, March 12th, 2009Here in the Northern Hemisphere, it’s… you guessed it… maple syrup time. I’m not sure which I love more, maple syrup (aka “liquid gold”) or Pete Seeger, so you can imagine my sheer bliss at this video which combines them both: And, we here at Team Tiny Choices have recently realized that we might be [...]
“Free” money for efficiency
Wednesday, March 11th, 2009I was poking around the internets yesterday and came across a USA Today article all about the tax credits for the US that were passed as part of the stimulus bill to reward home efficiency. And of COURSE I had to know more – I’m the kind of girl who, despite not owning a home, [...]
Quote of the Day: Dorothy Day
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009People say, “What is the sense of our small effort?” They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. – Dorothy Day
Green Mom’s Carnival: Green Spring Cleaning
Tuesday, March 10th, 2009Team Tiny Choices is proud to host the March 2009 edition of the Green Moms Carnival: Green Spring Cleaning! Though the bloggers are united on the subject of green cleaning, their takes on the matter vary wildly– and make for fascinating and insightful reading. Thusly we present to you (in the order of submissions received) [...]
No such thing as Clean Coal
Monday, March 9th, 2009Last week the Coen Brothers (of such landmark film fame as Fargo and The Big Lebowski) released a video in cooperation with Reality Coalition that has taken the internet by storm – it’s a humorous look at clean coal, and while simplistic, it’s pretty effective. Go ahead – take a break to go look! See, [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Round Up!
Sunday, March 8th, 2009Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina gives three thumbs up to the Climate Change exhibit at the Museum of Natural History; also, we present The Lorax on Dr. Seuss’ 105th birthday! (that’s a lot of candles); Tuesday: What, does [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Use less Pasta-Water!
Saturday, March 7th, 2009While it’s pretty generally accepted that you are supposed to use lots of water when you boil your pasta so it has room to wiggle and not stick together, it turns out that this may be, well, EXCESSIVE. According to the NY Times you can dramatically reduce the amount of water you use, and by [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Dale!
Friday, March 6th, 2009Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Dale Case, 59, Hillsboro, Or. How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? My wife and I live 4.5 miles South of Hillsboro on an acre and a half in a rural area that is all zoned for farmland. There is an urban growth boundary two miles [...]
Blue Whale Bliss
Thursday, March 5th, 2009Go here now, and be transfixed and mesmerized.
Veggie iPhone App
Thursday, March 5th, 2009For all’a you iPhone owners + vegetarian eaters: VegOutApp, a superhandy app which provides a worldwide listing of veg restaurants! Since we all know that going vegan is generally considered the single biggest-impact ecochoice you can make, this app can help iphone-toting vegetarians, vegans, omnivores, locavores, and all othervores make better food choices, around town [...]
CSA Dilemna
Wednesday, March 4th, 2009We posted an easy peasy tip last weekend about signing up for a CSA, and I just went through doing that myself. See, I’m moving in with my partner in the spring, so I will be leaving my lovely and current CSA behind. Which means I needed to find another one! I started by checking [...]
Bamboo Bike Project
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009Ya’ll know I’m a bike-lover. It’s true! Riding just plain makes me happy. Plus there’s the whole non-polluting mode of transportation bit, and also the part about getting exercise instead of sitting on my butt, etc. So when I read about the Bamboo Bike Project, I knew there was something special going on. From their [...]
Don’t forget – Sustainability Lecture and Meet-up!
Monday, March 2nd, 2009LOCAL-TO-NYC PEEPS! Don’t forget to put the Sustainability Lecture at The Cooper Union on your calender for tomorrow evening, and if you can’t make it so early, there’s always the awesome meet-up to be held at The Grassroots Tavern on St. Marks Place afterwards!
I Speak For the Trees
Monday, March 2nd, 2009Happy 105th birthday, Dr. Seuss! And thanks for the reminder that we really don’t need more thneeds. [Via Fresh Living]
Climate Change, as presented by The Museum of Natural History
Monday, March 2nd, 2009I had an opportunity to go to the Climate Change exhibit at the Museum of Natural History and I would like to recommend it to all of you! To begin with, I am kind of picky about museum exhibits that handle a lot of science. I know a lot about science, and I am very [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Round Up!
Sunday, March 1st, 2009Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina muses on razors, a subject we all have an opinion about. Tuesday: Jenn tells us about an ecoaware retreat center, and announces the winners of the organic cotton flannel hankie giveaway! Wednesday: We [...]
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