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Monday, February 13th, 2012I’ve written before about my love of solid shampoos - since writing that post, I’ve started to use JR Liggett’s shampoo bars almost exclusively for about three and a half years! (For the record, this product review was not sponsored in any way and the products I am discussing were purchased by myself for my [...]
Our New Furnace
Monday, January 30th, 2012We have finally gotten a new furnace installed! For the record, this is a photograph of our old furnace. Scary, right? We’ve been meaning to do this for AGES. We were heating our house with fuel oil, which was expensive and dirty, plus, it’s super smelly and actually exactly the same thing as diesel fuel, [...]
New Shower Curtains!
Monday, January 23rd, 2012It’s no secret that for several years I have struggled with unsightly shower curtains. In my last apartment the curtain was in tatters by the time I moved away but I didn’t want to buy a new one! The house I live in now requires two shower curtains - one to protect the unfinished window [...]
Tiny Choosing New Curtains
Wednesday, November 30th, 2011I’m loving my sweet little new apartment, which has an abundance of large windows which let the bright sunlight in. Ever think you’d have the problem of having a too-bright kitchen? Me either! I’m not complaining- I love that kitchen!- but it gets so bright that I can’t see the flame on the stovetop during [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Go To Bed!
Saturday, November 12th, 2011Now that the winter is looming here in the northern hemisphere, the sun sets way early and we tend to spend more time inside and at home. This can also mean higher electricity (since the lights are on for more hours per day) and heating bills. One way to counteract this is to wear hats [...]
Green Furnishing My New Pad
Wednesday, November 9th, 2011I’m about to move into a new apartment, and while it comes partially furnished there are things I’m going to need to buy to make it my cozy home. At the top of the list are the items needed for basic survival- such as, a coffee pot! -and a mattress to replace the thin piece [...]
Daylight Savings Time
Monday, November 7th, 2011This weekend we observed the end of daylight savings time (DST) for this year - and you know, as fiddly and annoying as it is to worry about turning clocks forward or backward, this year it went really well for me. You know why? because we had nothing planned. I was supposed to meet some [...]
Accidental insulation report
Monday, October 31st, 2011Y’all may remember how we had new insulation put in last year. We also has our front door replaced with a nice version that seals all the way around AND has a storm door on it. And today I’m here to say BOY HOWDY but we are happy we did that. We had an early [...]
Soda Bottles Into Lightbulbs
Wednesday, October 12th, 2011We’re all about tiny choices here at Tiny Choices… and to me, this is a perfect example of an elegant solution to a global issue: using empty plastic soda bottles filled with water and a little chlorine to funnel light into the dark homes of people living without electricity. These bottle lights shine up to [...]
Fall (Spring?) Resolutions!
Friday, October 7th, 2011The seasons have officially changed in the northeast USA - there was a frost warning last night at Karina’s house! So with the seasons changing, it’s time to shake everything up and choose some new stuff to concentrate on. Do you have anything you’ve been putting off tackling in the world of eco-choosing? Any secret [...]
Why do we live where we do? Part II
Monday, October 3rd, 2011I wrote last week about some thinking I’ve done about why we live where we do - and my theory that it’s due to one of three things: Family Job Lifestyle. I currently live where I do because of family, but the other two ring true for other times in my adult life. And after [...]
Why do we live where we do?
Monday, September 26th, 2011I’ve been thinking a lot lately about why we live (and work) where we do. Partly it’s because we have been really slapped in the face that our location is really not conducive to a smooth environmental lifestyle - in the recent hurricane/tropical storm, there was a period of 36 hours where we couldn’t leave [...]
Camping Choices
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011I’ve written before about the camping choices my family and I make - small car camping! We fit everything into our compact car (with roof rack), squeeze our bodies into the car, and head out merrily to find our adventure! (For those of you in other countries, this may not seem groundbreaking, but - in [...]
white rooftops
Thursday, July 28th, 2011Don’t you just love when there are easy eco-answers to un-eco situations? For example, consider the sea of hot, black, rooftops in most cities. We’ve all heard that city living is overall much more environmentally friendly than suburban or rural living, due to the shared living of apartment buildings, less car ownership/more public transportation use, [...]
Eco-Moving
Tuesday, July 26th, 2011I’ve been changing homes rather frequently these days, which, on one hand, is awesome- it’s probably the best way to avoid accumulating too much stuff, because what a pain it is to move everything every few months. On the other hand, there will always be the things I need around me on a daily basis, [...]
Beer Can Planters
Thursday, July 14th, 2011Ingenious folks have been making fantastical creations from beer cans forever; check out all the ingenious beercan-art from around the interweb there on Google… But what I saw at my local flea market recently really made me smile- a clever gardener took his empties, sliced off the top 1/3 of the can, and planted tiny [...]
Front-Yard Gardening
Thursday, July 7th, 2011While walking in a new neighborhood today, I passed a house which was seemingly like all the others on the block, until I looked a little more closely at the garden they’d planted in front. It was a vegetable garden. In the front of the house! Fantastic! While I’ve read about people doing this, I’d [...]
Bar Laundry Soap
Thursday, June 30th, 2011I recently returned from a meditation retreat, and since the ones I attend are 10 days long, it’s inevitable that somewhere in the middle of the course I’m going to be bent over a sink, washing clothes by hand. When I hand-wash clothes at home, I usually just use a few drops of the machine [...]
Wheaty Kitty Litter
Wednesday, June 22nd, 2011We’ve got a temporary cat right now - a friend and colleague of mine is traveling for the summer, and we agreed to look out for fuzzy little Book while she was gone. It’s so fun! Book is a fairly self-contained individual - no fussy eating habits, but he will take a swipe at your [...]
Easy Peasy Tip: Make your Dishwasher Most Efficient!
Saturday, June 18th, 2011While the lines are usually clearly drawn between those who think a dishwasher is the best-most-efficient or the worst-most-wasteful way to clean dishes, people usually decide to use whatever it is they have at home - the dishwasher, or their own two hands. As always, there’s usually a best way to use your appliances to [...]
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