From the category archives:

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

My Super Awesome Will-Not-Fail Plan to Eliminate Food Packaging

January 8, 2012

As I mentioned in a previous post, my major New Year’s goal is to limit some of the excess food packaging that comes into my house. My foolproof super hopeful plan! As noted, I’ve failed to reach my goal for four years or so. I’m pretty sure that I’ve been aiming too high, which is exactly the [...]

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My Green New Years Goal – Less Food Packaging and No Slacking This Year!

January 2, 2012

Instead of general New Year’s goals, I’m concentrating on discussing the childhood obesity epidemic. That said I do still have two general goals for myself, or I should say my household. One of my goals is to get this household more active, since we’ve been slacking, but we’ll discuss that later. First, let’s look at my big goal [...]

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Quick Green Tip: Reusing Plastic Water Bottles Not Safe

November 2, 2011

A few years ago I saw a television program (on PBS I believe) that highlighted the green efforts of some fella who had been reusing the same disposable plastic water bottle for about one year. His intentions were good. I mean, obviously you shouldn’t buy bottled water over and over. However, in actuality reusing disposable [...]

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Green your take-out food experience

October 16, 2011

Today is Blog Action Day 2011. This year’s topic is food. In America, people have a huge addiction to take-out food, which creates quite a trash issue. Paper or plastic bags, wrapped plastic silverware, straws, paper cups, plastic or Styrofoam containers and more trash, makes take-out food, not so very eco-friendly. Plus, most of this [...]

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Are real paper books eco-friendly?

September 25, 2011

For a while now I’ve been pondering the eco pros and cons of real books vs. Kindle – or any other wireless reading device, mainly because a few months ago I was slightly considering getting a reader. I read really fast and it’s a hassle to carry around enough books to sustain how quickly I [...]

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How big a problem is e-waste?

September 23, 2011

E-waste has been on mind lately, mainly because I’ve been debating the issue of real books vs. digital readers. Since e-waste is a large part of the digital reader vs. book debate, we’ll should look at e-waste before we look at the pros and cons of digital readers vs. real paper-filled books. What is [...]

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Easy Green Step: Break Your Addiction to Hot Water Laundry

September 19, 2011

The New York Times has a very interesting piece up, Cold-Water Detergents Get a Cold Shoulder. It’s worth a solid read, but to sum up, it appears that laundry washing folks all over the world can’t get over their addiction to hot water washing. The piece notes that U.S. customers are stuck on hot water [...]

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USAgain gives old clothing and home goods a new life

September 17, 2011

I just recently heard of USAgain, a green company that collects used clothes and resells them worldwide. If you’ve just gone through last year’s school clothes, USAgain is the perfect way to hand off the too small everything. USAgain sets up clothing drop-off bins across the country where you can easily stop and drop off [...]

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Is green living or safety more important to you?

August 18, 2011

On my post the other day about insulated lunch bags, reader Sabrina left an interesting comment. She said, “I have a concern about all of these products using PET. Doesn’t it contain endocrine-disrupting chemicals?” She then referred me to a link at Healthy Child Healthy World that digs into the issue of whether or not [...]

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The problem with owning a good water bottle…

May 21, 2011

Is that you don’t always notice the best new (and super cool) reusable water bottles as they arrive on the scene. Take, for instance, the Klean Kanteen Reflect Stainless Steel Water Bottle with Bamboo Cap. BEAUTIFUL! This is for sure my new wish list bottle. The Reflect bottle actually came out last November. I’ve been [...]