Archive for July, 2010
« Previous EntriesEasy Peasy Tip: Recycle your Toilet Paper Roll
Saturday, July 31st, 2010This Easy Peasy Tip is a little more directed than many of them, but it’s one of those “oh, RIGHT” things that can take a while for people to pick up on. Next time you change your toilet paper in the bathroom? Remember to carry that cardboard toilet paper tube out with you and stick [...]
“Happy Eco-News” Fridays!
Friday, July 30th, 201010 of the smallest homes in the world The Palette Project: Shipping Palettes to Ploughshares Wide-eyed primate caught on camera for first time Top 5 Genius Animals (video) Discovered: Indian spice reduces Alzheimer’s symptoms by 30%
Actually Recycling My Recylables
Thursday, July 29th, 2010Sometimes recycling is easy: NYC provides pick-up for paper, metal, and glass recycling, along with a limited variety of coded plastic. All I need to do is bring my sorted bags out to the curb the evening before pickup, and away goes my recycling for the week. It’s like magic! Less magical are all the [...]
Zero Charger
Wednesday, July 28th, 2010I got an email yesterday from my cell phone provider: At long last, AT&T launches the first wall-based USB charger that shuts itself off when not refilling a cell phone. No more vampire draw if the charger is left plugged in. So! That’s totally neat! We’ve talked before about how easy it is to just [...]
Lessons in DIY Milk Paint
Tuesday, July 27th, 2010I’m not quite sure how three years of Tiny Choices posts have accumulated without me yet writing about the paint I made for my bedroom walls, but here we are and I’ve not yet told you about it. So! When I moved into my apartment about five years ago, I knew that all of the [...]
Party Etiquette
Monday, July 26th, 2010This weekend we went to a birthday party and, as per normal, I remembered to bring along my family’s sporks so we didn’t have to use disposable silverware. It was a BBQ so it was pretty informal, but it was held at the house of someone I regard as a real class act, and who [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Obey the Seasons!
Saturday, July 24th, 2010One of the hallmarks of living in the developed world is that our money and our technology have allowed us to have whatever we want, whenever we want it. And granted, these heat waves we’re experiencing in the eastern US are very severe and hard to deal with, not to mention physically dangerous for many [...]
“Happy Eco-News” Fridays!
Friday, July 23rd, 2010Almost Invisible Mirrored Tree House Built In Sweden Turning Empty (and Illegal)Ad Space into Pop-Up Parks Plantable Print: The New Trend in Sustainable Packaging Pollution-Eating Concrete to Save Your Lungs Five Benefits of Cycle Commuting Watch a Guerrilla Gardener Break Ground in Los Angeles Hidden musical code found written into Plato’s texts 3 DIY wines [...]
Bike Maintainance
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010I met a friend at a local coffeeshop this morning for a chatty breakfast, and when I went outside afterwards to continue on with my day, I noticed the flat front tire on my bike. It was all sad and mopey and deflated, and clearly needed to be dealt with immediately since the bike was [...]
Bringing Back the Spork
Wednesday, July 21st, 2010One of the first things I wrote about on Tiny Choices was my awesome tiny bamboo spork, and how great it was. And since then, I’ve had a few happy years with my wee spork, dragging it around and impressing people at rest areas with my avoidance of disposable cutlery. Recently I was shopping for [...]
Dissolving the Dead
Tuesday, July 20th, 2010It’s prudent, if a bit creepy, to think about how we’d like our bodies disposed of after we die. And seeing as how this is my second post on the subject (see Eco-Burials for more thrilling discussions), it’s no secret I find this a really interesting topic to approach from an environmental angle. Turns out [...]
Reclaimed Lumber
Monday, July 19th, 2010As if I don’t have about a zillion other side projects going on right now, I’ve got it in my head that it would be really wonderful if we had some beautiful raised bed gardens and some Adirondack chairs for the back patio. Of course my main inspiration for this is Friend of Tiny Choices [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Leave the Car Behind!
Saturday, July 17th, 2010Everyone talks about how great pedestrian friendly neighborhoods are, so here’s a tip for people who aren’t in pedestrian friendly locations – even if you have to live in a place with cars and you use your car every day, make a regular plan to leave the car behind. Seriously evaluate things like libraries, restaurants, [...]
Tiny Choices Giveaway: Klean Kanteen!
Friday, July 16th, 2010The fabulous folks at Klean Kanteen are generously donating two stainless steel water bottles for a Tiny Choices giveaway! Two lucky readers will each win one 27 ounce Classic Klean Kanteen, in a color of their choosing! To enter, please leave a comment below with your favorite summertime word. Two winners will be chosen at [...]
Bed Sheets
Thursday, July 15th, 2010I’m a big fan of smooth, luxurious bed sheets– I don’t care what the thread count is, but if the sheets feel rough, I’m just not happy. I had never realized what a difference quality sheets make until I happened to buy a really good set of them, kind of by accident… and now, now [...]
Foam Container Shill
Wednesday, July 14th, 2010We were headed home from vacation yesterday and stopped at a gas-station-slash-bbq-store for lunch, and here is our shameful disclosure of the soda pop in Styrofoam containers (although do you see the reusable spork behind the horrible disposable cups?)” What you probably can’t read is the “facts” on the cups – it reads: “An average [...]
Kids & The Oil Spill
Tuesday, July 13th, 2010If there’s one teeny tiny bit of environmental news we’ve not been talking about much here at TC, you’ll have to forgive us– but the leaky pipe in the ocean is something that I think Karina and I both feel overwhelmed by. Well, I’ll just speak for myself here– I feel overwhelmed by this catastrophe. [...]
Playpus Water Tank Review
Monday, July 12th, 2010One of the exciting things I’ve purchased recently as a Reuseit.Com ambassador was a Platypus Reusable Water Tank. Y’all, this thing is COOL. We go car camping, right – as I’ve mentioned before! in a very small car, so we don’t have room for a lot of things like buckets or similar. So I was [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Return It!
Saturday, July 10th, 2010If you’ve bought something you end up not needing or loving, then return it to the store. This will put the item back into circulation, and give it a chance to be used for the purpose it was manufactured for. Otherwise it gather dust in your home, and all the resources used in its production [...]
“Happy Eco-News” Fridays!
Friday, July 9th, 2010X-Prize Foundation Announces $10m Prize for Oil Spill Solution Electrolux to Make Vacuums from Plastic Ocean Trash (and they’re doing this specifically to highlight the issue of the Plastic Gyre– wow!) Turning shopping malls into organic farms U.S. Cities Cutting Bottled Water Use As Budgets Dry Up Australian man gifts land worth billions, instead of [...]
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