Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

50 reusable goods that easily replace disposable goods

You have hundreds of choices when it comes to reusable products vs. disposable products. Even if you just choose just five or ten of these choices, and use them year-round, it’ll cut down on your disposable footprint, save you money and make a big difference for the planet. *NOTE: All estimates below are based on [...]

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Easy eco-action: refillable soap dispensers

Refillable reusable soap dispenser are a super easy eco-step that every family can take. It may seem like a small step, but if you think about, this practice can really help reduce a ton of plastic waste. Consider all the soap containers you have laying around the house: The typical family has two bathrooms, each with a [...]

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Create Car-Pool Rules for Your Neighborhood Car-Pool

In a previous post we looked at how to start organizing a car-pool. If you are organizing a car-pool, your group will need some rules. Car-pool rules are easier to implement right from the start – if you just skip merrily along, making up rules as you go, your car-pool won’t be as useful or [...]

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Organize a school car-pool in your neighborhood

According to Safe Routes to School, “In 1969, approximately 50% of children walked or bicycled to school, with approximately 87% of children living within one mile of school walking or bicycling. Today, fewer than 15% of schoolchildren walk or bicycle to school.” Not only does this promote a country full of overweight, inactive kids, but nowadays, [...]

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Solutions to Pizza Box Waste

We tend to make homemade pizza more than we order out, but we have been known to partake in Sizzle Pie – an awesome local pizza joint with seriously addictive salads, regular pizza and vegan pizza, and when we do order from them, the pizza boxes pose a problem. We do attempt to recycle them, [...]

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Brew green coffee more efficiently at home

Brewing coffee at home is an excellent way to save money and cut down on your carbon footprint. Some problems of going out for coffee include… Insane prices: $2-$5+ for a cup of coffee (yikes). Gas use: You need to drive to get coffee out (unless you walk). Time use: You’ll have to waste time getting to [...]

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Small Green Step: Keep Reusable Goods in Your Car

One small step that can help you keep it green is to keep often used reusable items in your car. For example, what happens when you make an emergency coffee shop stop, but don’t have a cup? You end up with a disposable cup. What about if you have to stop for some groceries but [...]

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Cool Homemade Halloween Costume Ideas for Kids

With Halloween coming up, you might be wondering about homemade Halloween costume ideas for kids. Below are some homemade costume ideas that kids might actually think are cool… Minecraft Halloween costumes galore My son Cedar, along with tons of other kids on this planet are obsessed with in love Mincraft. With that in mind, here are some [...]

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Reduce, reuse and recycle textile waste

According to the EPA, Americans generated about 250 million tons of trash in 2010, but we only recycled and composted about 85 million tons of this waste or what amounts to a 34.1 percent recycling rate. Shoddy. While most of us can easily imagine old food, packaging materials and plastics sitting in a landfill, textiles are [...]

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Common Recycling Mistakes Families Make

In order to create less trash, recycling is important. However, don’t make these common recycling mistakes… You fail to learn your local recycling rules: This is a top mistake. If you don’t know your local rules, you’ll be unable to recycle to the best of your abilities. Recycling should be a national issue, to make it easy [...]