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Friday, December 12th, 2008It’s the holiday season, and I have fond memories of stringing popcorn on thread to hang outside for the birds to eat, or of shellacking pine cones with peanut butter and rolling them in seeds every year. Here’s a collection of some holiday ideas for you this year, just in case you need something to […]
Summer Dreaming
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2008I read an article this week in the NY Times about Green RVs, and it’s put me in mind of summer plans. Did y’all know I have a camper van? A very wonderful professor at my graduate school heard me talking with great enthusiasm about biodiesel, and he offered to give me his late Father-in-law’s […]
Using What I’ve Got
Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008In these uncertain economic times there’s much talk of belt-tightening (when Starbucks starts losing money, you know Americans are rethinking their disposable income), but it’s not all doom and gloom– the idea of using what we’ve already got can be a way to appreciate the beauty and usefulness of the things we do have, instead […]
Thai Bottle Temple
Thursday, November 27th, 2008Hello, LOVE! Love love LOVE this. Love.
So, there were these Thai monks who wanted to build a new temple. They started collecting green and brown glass bottles with which to build– and check out this slideshow of their magnificent creation, containing over one million bottles. Their outhouse and crematorium are also made of […]
Chico Bags
Monday, November 17th, 2008You may have noticed that Team Tiny Choices really loves our chico bags. We’ve mentioned it before in passing. Jenn and I have passed Chico Bags between us as gifts for a couple of years now, and it is really and entirely the gift that keeps on giving. I found out a couple of neat-o […]
Easy Peasy Tip: Skip The Hair Dryer!
Saturday, November 8th, 2008Many hair dryers use approximately 2000 watts of power to hurricane-dry your hair! If you blow dry your hair for 5 minutes a day every day of the year, you’ll use 60.6 kWh per year, or 81.3 lbs of carbon dioxide. That’s the equivalent carbon emission for burning 4 gallons of gasoline! (For more information […]
The Story Of The Bulk Dish Soap
Thursday, November 6th, 2008I recently ran out of dish soap, and since I’m nowhere near as cool as Karina I’ve no plans to whip up a batch. But, I did think about how perfectly reusable the empty plastic bottle is, and what a damn shame it is that we toss out/downcycle so many perfectly reusable empty plastic bottles. […]
Trick or Treat!
Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008I rarely get trick-or-treaters, and I’ve been known to kind of hide out at home in the past, but I do think of what kind of candy to buy for those costumed kids. You know. If I were to actually hand out candy. Now that it’s practically Halloween, and we probably have *just* enough […]
Weighing the convenience of green choices
Monday, October 13th, 2008I’m almost out of dish soap. That’s right - the stuff I made way back in June is almost gone. That’s a really great track record for a container of soap! a solid 4 months, I guess? So now I’m faced with a decision: do I make more, or do I go ahead and buy […]
But what kind of reusable bag is best?
Wednesday, October 8th, 2008There was an article in the Wall Street Journal last week discussing the efficiencies of reusable bags. I was especially interested as I’ve found that a few of my non-woven plastic bags have developed big holes in them - ok, maybe I overload them, but my canvas totes don’t give me any problems!
According to the […]
Green Linkety-Links
Tuesday, October 7th, 2008Treehugger’s got a nice little round-up of 6 easy ways to save and be green. They’re all pretty basic concepts and are most likely familiar to many of you, but it’s good to be reminded of how easy some tiny choices can be, and how they really do add up! It’s also a good link […]
Ending Holiday Consumerism
Monday, September 29th, 2008I don’t want to be accused of talking holidays too early - you know how some stores manage to bump up the Christmas Carols a little bit each year, until we’re hearing them sometime shortly after Halloween? What better way, though, for our retailers to sneakily remind us that there are ONLY A FEW (tens […]
Guest Post: Green Your Lawn Mower!
Thursday, September 25th, 2008Hey Tiny Choosers– today we’re featuring a special guest post by Angela Rickard of Brisbane, Australia, on a topic near and dear to her heart: manual push lawn mowers!
Good day readers, it’s your international correspondent Angela guest posting today. If you haven’t experienced the joys of modern reel lawn mowers, you’ll want to read […]
Remember when conservation was patriotic?
Wednesday, September 24th, 2008This has been a week chock full of politics here at Tiny Choices! Here’s one mildly timely, and mildly political. Remember when conservation was patriotic? The American Legion has some truly amazing war-time posters linked on their homepage that bring back a simpler time, when conservation was patriotic and sweaters were practically standard issue.
For example, […]
Easy Peasy Tip: Shut Off Your Monitor!
Saturday, September 20th, 2008Did you know that a monitor in “screensaver” mode uses just as much energy as when you’re actually using it? That’s because it’s still fully on, displaying your screensaver just as it would display your browser windows and documents. So turn off that screensaver, and tweak your computer’s energy settings to go into […]
DIY Napkin Rings
Wednesday, September 10th, 2008Friend of Tiny Choices Stacey Bhaerman told me about one of her recent TinyChoices and it was so cool I asked her her to write it up. She is sweet, and did!
One of the first subjects covered on Tiny Choices was the choice to move from paper disposable to cloth napkins.
At that time, I was […]
Green Reminder Stickers
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008I recently estimated that I spend approximately one-quarter of my working hours ducking into empty conference rooms and shutting off the lights. Perhaps I exaggerate slightly, but only slightly– I work with lovely people but apparently many of them were raised in barns, perhaps too tired from the uphill slog to and from school […]
Easy Peasy Tip: Skip a flush!
Saturday, September 6th, 2008Here’s a note from a friend out west:
I just got back from vacation at the Lava Beds National Monument, and they had the “big flush/little flush” toilets at the visitor center. Of course I had to take a picture for you because I am a nut like that. I thought of all […]
What I did on my Summer Vacation
Monday, September 1st, 2008It’s Labor Day in the US, which traditionally marks the end of summer vacation and back to school. At least, it did in my day. Also in my day (do I sound positively ancient yet?) teachers would ask students to share what they did on their summer vacation during the first week of classes. So, […]
Consider a solar water heating system!
Wednesday, August 27th, 2008Special Guest Blogger Bernie Frist from PHX writes with his experiences installing a solar hot water heater. Bernie is a colleague of Karina’s at her Day Job. He recently took the time to research an alternative to a traditional hot water heater and came up with a much better option - even on a purely […]
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