Archive for December, 2009
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Tuesday, December 8th, 2009I heard this great story on NPR recently, about two different restaurants in Springfield Missouri which share the same space. One is a breakfast/eggs joint from which you can order breakfast and lunch, and the other an Italian restaurant which serves lunch and dinner. Though their menus, owners, and finances are separate, they share the [...]
Review: O’Bon Paper and Pencils
Monday, December 7th, 2009I first read about O’Bon paper and pencils over at The Greenists, and I was excited to request some materials to do my own review. First, O’Bon was exceedingly generous – they sent a notebook of exactly the right size I use every day to keep notes at my day job, a box of pencils, [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Use Bar Soap!
Saturday, December 5th, 2009Instead of buying another plastic bottle of liquid hand soap, switch to bar soap instead. You’ll get much more bang for your buck: more actual soap and less liquefying ingredients; lower carbon footprint; far less packaging to toss away/recycle. Another way to green this up even further is to seek out bar soap which is [...]
Favorite Green Places: Birdbath Bakery
Friday, December 4th, 2009Here’s this weeks entry for our Favorite Green Places series: This is the kind of green place we can get behind– carefully considered from top to bottom, Birdbath Bakery in NYC is about as green as a business can get. Talk about tiny choices– Birdbath has made them all… combined, they make for one conscious [...]
NYC Area: Recycle-A-Bicycle Benefit!
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009For all of you cyclists (and those who love ‘em) in the NYC area, check out Recycle-A-Bicycle’s 15th Birthday Celebration:A Benefit Auction Featuring the NY400 Batavus Bicycles and Bike-themed Art! This awesome org rocks: “Recycle-A-Bicycle is a community-based bike shop and non-profit organization that provides educational/job training programs and encourages environmental stewardship and everyday bicycle [...]
Urban Window Farms
Thursday, December 3rd, 2009I’m in love with the Urban Window Farm movement! What’s Urban Window Farming? From their site: “Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials.” So: get a bunch of used clear plastic bottles and a few other easily procured items, and build a vertical farm [...]
Betacup for a Better Cup
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009Reusable cups are something that we talk about a lot at Tiny Choices, probably because it’s one of the best examples of a personal Tiny Choice that we can implement to make a difference. (Like, a lot. A whole lot. lots and lots and lots and lots.) The issue of disposable cups can be a [...]
Are Women Are Greener Than Men?
Tuesday, December 1st, 2009I’m wondering what ya’ll think about these findings, which basically say that in (what’s the PC term?) developed/first-world countries, women are greener than men. To paraphrase from the Treehugger article: Women drive and fly much less than men. …are more likely to buy ecologically friendly and organic goods, recycle and be energy efficient. …women respond [...]
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