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Category Archives: At Home
Overwhelmed by Climate News?
Capitalism may be our Salvation. Didn’t see that one coming did you? My dream is that there will be home energy kits available at Home Depot, Walmart, Lowes, or other box store that anyone can buy at a reasonable price … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, At Home, Climate, Energy, My CO2 Footprint
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Perfect Time for Plant-Based Meals
I was going to say, great time to go vegan, but I know change takes time — a lot of time. Take my in-home campaign to stop using plastic wrap. How long could that take? FIVE years! It started in … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Climate, Food, My CO2 Footprint, Water
Tagged covid, covid-19, healthy diet, healthy planet, plant based, sequestration, stay home order, vegan
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Why an Electric Car is the Perfect Second Car
If you’ve been following my blog, you know I’ve been looking for ways to reduce my carbon footprint for the past few years. I had hoped to be in the process of converting our local electricity from fossil-fuel based to … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Energy, Fuel, My CO2 Footprint, Saving Money, Shopping
Tagged bainbridge, Bainbridge Senior Center, benefits of electric cars, CAB, car, cars, Climate Action Bainbridge, Demi Allen, electric, electric car, electric vehicle, electric vehicles, Erika Shriner, EV, Leaf, Multi-Model Advisory Committee, Nissan, Nissan Leaf, second car
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Friends, Don’t Let Friends Buy Earth Worms
I have a confession to make. I may have blacked out, or forgotten that I grew up in farm country, been spending too much time indoors instead of outside, but I think I finally bought into to the messaging that … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Food, My CO2 Footprint
Tagged compost, compost bins, composting, consumerism, dirt, earth, earth worms, red wigglers, soil, worm, worms
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Reduce Your Pet’s Carbon Paw Prints
A while back, I posted an article discussing a few ways that pet owners can reduce the carbon paw prints of their dogs – an article that was inspired by my friend Teri that was wondering what to do with … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Green Ideas, Shopping
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How to Kick the Plastic Wrap Habit
A couple of years ago, before I began to give the idea of zero waste any thought, I was in a meeting when someone at the end of the table announced, “I never use plastic wrap.” How could this be? … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Conservation, Food, Green Ideas, Recycling, Saving Money, Shopping
Tagged leftovers, plastic wrap, recycle, repurposing, repurposing jelly jars, zero waste
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Zero Waste Bathroom Gap Update
Just a quick update on my bathroom commercial-product-replacement progress. You can find the before image in my last post. First, I was loving baking soda instead of commercial toothpaste, it did a GREAT job of removing the coffee stains on … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Green Ideas, Recycling
Tagged baking soda, coconut oil, divert, face lotion recipe, homemade mommy, jelly jars, landfill, mouth wash recipe, repurposing, repurposing jelly jars, tooth paste recipe, trash is for tossers, zero waste, zero-waste bathroom
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Baking Soda is the Answer
How to achieve a zero-waste lifestyle is the question. This morning I not only brushed my teeth with baking soda but also used it to wash my face and hair. Who knew? Apparently, I’ve been spending way too much money … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Green Ideas, Recycling, Saving Money, Shopping
Tagged bamboo, bathroom, biodegradable bags, grocery, natural beauty, organic natural beauty, recipes for personal care products, trash free, trash is for tossers, wellness mama, whole new mom, zero waste, zero waste home, zero waste lifestyle
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Losing Power
Saturday we lost power all day. It’s par for the course on Bainbridge where a light breeze or, in this case, a dusting of snow can render most or all of the island powerless. To be fair, temperatures had plummeted … Continue reading
Posted in At Home
Tagged electricity, electronics, lifesfyle, losing power, outage, power, power outage
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The Cruelty of Planned Obsolescence
There is nothing wrong with my Mac PowerBook except that it is now a world onto itself. It’s cut off from the outside, unable to upgrade its OS 9.0.4 and therefore the browsers needed to interact with the internet, its … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, At Work, My CO2 Footprint, Recycling
Tagged obsolescence, planned obsolescence, recycling, reuse, technology, waste
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