Archive for September, 2010
Next Entries »Guest Post: Sharing The Canning Love
Tuesday, September 7th, 2010We’re thrilled to present a guest post by dear friend of Tiny Choices, Meredith MacDonald: Canning is definitely increasing in popularity. Now is the perfect time to get into preserving food through water bath canning. There are new books out, supplies are widely available and late summer is the time of bounty for many gardens [...]
Thin Film Solar
Monday, September 6th, 2010These days when I’m not writing about my tiny efficient car, being a motorcycle enthusiast, or canning vegetables from my CSA, I’m probably writing about our attempts at improving the efficiency of our very old but very lovely house. There’s the insulation thing, for sure. The tax credits to complete updating the insulation in our [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Learn Where It Goes
Saturday, September 4th, 2010So you’ve put your recyclables into the blue bin and bundled your cardboard up with twine; good job! Now, do you know where these materials go when they’ve been picked up by your municipality or after you’ve dropped them off at your local collection center? Try to sleuth out what happens once recyclables have left [...]
“Happy Eco-News” Fridays!
Friday, September 3rd, 2010Some fun links that we’ve been extra- enjoying this week! This blog about riding a bike everywhere is just super. Full of fashion and interesting information and helpful tips. Some really helpful tips to help you line dry your clothes! While it’s not rocket science, there’s definitely some room for technique. Karina is still looking [...]
Bottled Water While Travelling
Thursday, September 2nd, 2010We certainly don’t have to repeat this: Team Tiny Choices is very anti-bottled water. But during my recent travels in Central America, I drank more of the stuff than I care to admit– and this was also the case when I visited India last year. It nearly killed me, buying so much of the stuff, [...]
100+mpg car
Wednesday, September 1st, 2010Have you all heard about this? The Avion is a car which was prototyped in the 80s, and which is super efficient and designed to get over 100 miles per gallon. And there’s a guy who is driving one from Mexico to California! As they say: “In our testing the car we were able to [...]
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