Archive for February, 2008
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Friday, February 29th, 2008I wanted to give a shout-out to fellow ecoblogger Vanessa, of Green as a Thistle. She’s implemented and maintained an environmentally-minded change each day for the past year… and now she’s done. Some of the changes were tiny choices and some perhaps not quite as tiny, and she herself is wondering which have become lifetime [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Siel
Friday, February 29th, 2008Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Siel, 29, Santa Monica, Calif., green LA girl and Emerald City How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? In a cute 1/2 bedroom apartment with a balcony, roommate-free! Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. A little of both! I both want [...]
Toilet Seat Ponderings
Thursday, February 28th, 2008Yes, it’s come to this, dear readers… toilet seats. I’m going to share with you my ecodeliberation over purchasing a new toilet seat when I moved into my home, some three years ago. I had just moved into my first owned home and was still using the cheapo white plastic toilet seat the previous owner(s?) [...]
Tiny choosing gardener style
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008Friend of Tiny Choices Frank posted recently about starting seeds. I love seeds. I love planting. I love thinking about gardens. I love seed catalogs. I wish I had a yard or something better than a bunch of windowsills above hot winter radiators in which to grow things. But I don’t, so I live vicariously [...]
Goods 4 Girls: Reusable Pad Drive
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008Fellow eco-blogger Crunchy Chicken is a truly amazing woman- that rare person who sees a need and then figures out a way to fulfill it. After reading about Proctor & Gamble’s program Protecting Futures, which donates disposable (plastic and bleached cotton) menstrual pads to young women in Africa, Crunchy realized there had to be a [...]
The most delicious and most expensive yogurt.
Monday, February 25th, 2008I made an impulse purchase a couple of weeks ago at Whole Foods. I bought a bottle of six dollar yogurt. (This is why people call it Whole Paycheck!) I don’t know why I bought it, I can’t really remember — but I think it had something to do with the magical words “whole milk [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup
Sunday, February 24th, 2008Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina spills on a carbon neutral winery. Tuesday: Jenn packs a post with information about eco starter kits. Wednesday: Karina waxes on about value systems and environmentalism. Thursday: Jenn poses a dirty question: how [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Replace a Convenience Meal
Saturday, February 23rd, 2008These days, we’re all constantly eating on the go - hey! we’re all busy people! But fast and convenience foods are wrapped in all kinds of awful plastics and other stuff that can’t be recycled, and generally they’re also transported from far, far away. And let’s face it - fast food really isn’t that good [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Lynda Del Genis
Friday, February 22nd, 2008Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Lynda Del Genis, 38, Baltimore MD How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? In a 100-year old rowhouse with two cats and a dog. Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. Choice! I was very lucky to buy my house in 2002, [...]
Help Me Wash My Dishes
Thursday, February 21st, 2008Well, not literally… unless you really want to… Here’s the thing- I’ve been using Scotch-Brite Dobie scrubbing sponges for my whole life, practically. I grew up using them, and everyone in my family still uses them. In fact one of my sisters-in-law once said something along the lines of, “What’s up with you Sturiales and [...]
On Value Systems and Environmentalism
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008Jenn and I have had a few conversations lately about different environmental issues, and how important they are to each of us. For example, there’s the plastics issue: Jenn is concerned about the chemical leaching issue, while I’m not, really. I would rather avoid using plastics because I think we use way too many plastics [...]
Green-In-A-Box: Eco Starter Kits
Tuesday, February 19th, 2008With a little planning and helpful input from you, our fabulous readers, I’ve been finding it pretty easy to implement green changes into my life. For example, it’s been easy to stop using disposable paper napkins and towels and start using fabric napkins and rags, but it did take a little thinking to figure out [...]
Carbon Neutral Wine
Monday, February 18th, 2008Our recent easy peasy tip on local wine was especially timely, because I’ve been meaning to write a full post about local wine! I’ve been trying to purchase local wine whenever I can, and I took a trip to California recently I found myself in the grocery standing in front of the shelves of wine [...]
Tiny Choices Weekly Roundup
Sunday, February 17th, 2008Wherein we summarize all the fun and information from the previous week for your convenience! Last week on Tiny Choices: Monday: Karina goes green skiing! And, a quote by Yvon Chouinard. Tuesday: In a Tiny Choices Q&A, Jenn tackles the age-old question of whether it’s greener to leave a light burning or shut it off, [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Buy Local(ish) Wine & Beer!
Saturday, February 16th, 2008The further any product has to travel, the bigger its carbon footprint. So unless you’re a full-blooded oenophile or hop-head, then think about where the beverage was made and how much energy it took to get it to you. Those bottles and liquid are heavy, and shipping cases of them halfway around the world is [...]
Tiny Choices Survey: Kate Gramlich
Friday, February 15th, 2008Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)? Kate Gramlich, 21, Illinois How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)? Tiny apartment with a feline roommate :) Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain. Both - I wanted to live alone and wanted a small place where utilities would be manageable [...]
“Help me stop using plastic bags”
Thursday, February 14th, 2008Metafilter tackles the big green question we all need a good answer to: “I’d like to stop using plastic grocery bags, but I use them as liners in all of my garbage cans (including the kitchen, where stuff thrown in tends to be moist food detritus). Any ideas on what to use as garbage liners [...]
Greener Laptop Sleeves
Thursday, February 14th, 2008I love the small ways in which we can green our lives (tiny choices, anyone?), because they are so achievable and easily-doable, and make us even more receptive to implementing bigger changes as we go along. Enter: greener laptop sleeves. Most regular sleeves are made with some combination of nylon and/or polyurethane foam padding and/or [...]
Greening Flower Choices
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008Tomorrow is the ubiquitous Valentine’s Day (or as I like to call it: VD) and the pressure is on in the good ol’ USA to show your love by purchasing lots of beautiful flowers and chocolates. That came out sounding a little more bitter than it should have - let the record show that I [...]
Speaking of green skiing -
Tuesday, February 12th, 2008I just got a heads-up from my sister Sarah that the Northeast Sustainable Energy Association has partnered with Jiminy Peak (of Zephyr the Wind Turbine, and where I was skiing last weekend!) to offer discounted skiing this month! Not for this upcoming holiday weekend, but the rest of the month is wide open… If you [...]
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