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Why Compost?
Ever feel late to the party? A few years ago I got on the composting bandwagon because I knew it was a good idea and most of my friends had composts and we had a little land, so why not? … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Food, My CO2 Footprint, Recycling, Saving Money
Tagged anaerobic decomposition, CO2, compost, compost bins, compostable bags, garbage, gardening, landfill, methane, mulch, organic matter, plastic bags, wormeries, worms
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“Just one word. Plastics.”
Do you remember how smart that sounded in The Graduate? Plastic. It was new and exciting. Sexy even. And, now look at us, just 46 years later we’re drowning in it. Literally. Plastic is very hard to avoid. Just remember … Continue reading
Posted in Food, Green Ideas, My CO2 Footprint, Recycling, Saving Money, Shopping
Tagged Bag It, bainbridge, carbon emissions, concord ma, enironment wa, feast of joy, foodgawker, grocery, islenders, lending library, paper bags, plastic, plastic bags, plastic water bottles, Puget Sound, punchfork, recycle, reusable bags, reuse, share, shopping, sustainable bainbridge, The Graduate, trash backwards, trashbackwards
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Do the Slow Thing
I’m constantly looking for ways to simplify my carbon reduction so I don’t have to think about it so much. To that end, one of my favorite blogs/sites is Do the Green Thing. It identifies seven things everyone can do … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Food, My CO2 Footprint, Shopping, Travel
Tagged Do the Green Thing, slow carbon, Slow food
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Hot Tub vs. Bath Tub
Ok, I was pretty sure I knew the answer to this question before I started to do any research: which consumed more energy: running the hot tub full bore all winter or taking baths? But, I had to do the … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Conservation, Green Ideas, My CO2 Footprint
Tagged 350.org, Australia, bath tub, Bill McKibben, burpees, compost hot tub, hot tub, kwh, little eco footprint
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Electronic Media Hell and other Recycling Stories
“You’re not throwing out your 2001 files,” my husband asked, his voice dripping with sarcasm, as he helped me carry plastic bins down the attic stairs. Yes, yes, I am – finally! Besides throwing heaps of paper into the recycle … Continue reading
Books are my Weakness
I don’t mean to turn this blog into some kind of a confessional, or anything, and I do want to guard against over-sharing — that’s just embarrassing, However, I need to admit one little thing…for some reason my subconscious has … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, My CO2 Footprint, Recycling, Saving Money, Shopping
Tagged bibliophiles, book, books, bookstores, Daily Sightline, e-books, Eagle Harbor Books, ebooks, libraries, library, marginalia, new books, new years resolutions, sightlines blog, used books
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Need a New Year’s Resolution or Two? Carbon Calculators to the Rescue!
I tried four carbon footprint calculators and even though they used varying methodologies the basic message was: while I’m not as swash-buckling as most extreme users of our natural resources, I have a long, long way to go to get … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, At Home, Food, Green Ideas, My CO2 Footprint, Recycling, Travel
Tagged bi-coastal, car, carbon calculators, carpool, CFL, east coast, Energy Star, environmental protection agency, EPA, flights, green, green electricity, green power, house, Nature Conservancy, offset, organic, telecommute, thermastat, vegan, west coast
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Do Your Things Own You?
For years I’ve said: “a girl can’t have too many computers or web devs.” This was mostly in reference to the fact that for the past fifteen years or so I’ve been cocooned in an electromagnetic field from at least … Continue reading
Posted in Recycling
Tagged cellphones, computers, Daily Sightline, donate, Eleven Winery, goodwill, Green Disk, hard disks, Joshua Fields Millburn, recycling, repurpose, reuse, Ryan Nicodemus, sell, servers, The Minimalists, Total Reclaim
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About that Cup o’ Joe…
“This will keep your coffee warm for an entire ferry ride,” I remember the salesgirl saying at Pegasus when I bought my first reusable commuter mug, 20 years ago. Finally! I was a true Seattlite, I drank coffee, cared about … Continue reading
Posted in At Work, Food, Green Ideas, Recycling, Travel
Tagged Bainbridge Bakers, Chris Jordan, coffee, Joy, Pegasus, reusable cups, Running the Numbers, takeout containers, TED, TED talks, waste
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CO2 Baseline
The idea that a person should be concerned about the parts per million of CO2 in our atmosphere entered my consciousness four years ago when I read an article about NASA’s James Hansen with the unsavory message that our CO2 … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Conservation, My CO2 Footprint
Tagged 350, 350 ppm, 350.org, Bill McKibben, carbon footprint, Carbon visuals, CO2, Dan Kowalski, James Hansen, NASA, NYTimes, real-time emissions, Rollingbaworks
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