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Category Archives: Green Ideas
Got Solar Panel Will Kayak
Or, should I say: Got Joos? Just because I love nature, the great outdoors and mother earth doesn’t mean I don’t have instant withdrawals if separated from my devices. I’m a modern nature lover. You need to know this about … Continue reading
Green Gift Ideas
What to give a low-carbon girl on her birthday? That’s what some of my friends were thinking about this year and several came up with some pretty crafty solutions. Upcycle, Reuse, Repeat As you probably know, plastic has become the … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Green Ideas, My CO2 Footprint, Recycling, Shopping
Tagged bulk food bags, colin beavan, gifts, green gifts, grocery bags, no presents, no-impact man, recycle, reuse, reuse gifts, sustainable gifts, upcycle, upcycle gifts, YES! Magazine
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How Green is Your Clean?
Is someone decorating Easter eggs or is that your green cleaner? You know what I’m taking about, right? It’s the green cleaning combo of baking soda and white vinegar. Why green cleaners? If you’re like me, you’ve been trying to … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Green Ideas, Saving Money
Tagged all-purpose cleaner, baking soda, bathroom, biokleen, Bona, Cascade Automatic Dishwasher, clean, cleaning, club soda, Concrobium, Environmental Working Group’s, green cleaners, Greenworks, lemon, mold cleaner, mold control, Mop & Glow, Murphy Oil Soap, myers, Seventh Generation, simple green, toilet bowl cleaner, USA Today’s Green Living, vinegar
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Look at That! You Can Have it All!
At first, I thought Sanuk* (the sandal company) was going to be my new favorite company, not for their products, but for the biodegradable bags they use to package their products. Their bags are made of corn or tapioca. (If … Continue reading
Posted in Green Ideas, My CO2 Footprint, Recycling, Shopping
Tagged alternative to plastic, bag, bags, biodegradable, biodegradable bags, compost, compost bins, compostable, corn bags, ecopia, ecoplas technology, go ecopia, instead of paper, packaging, plastic bags, reduced carbon footprint, renewable resource, sandals, sanuk, sustainable bags, tapioca, tapioca bag, tapioca bags
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What About a Composting Toilet?
Last week I ran into a colleague on the ferry and we spent the half an hour trip talking about how he has gone OFF THE GRID. Yes, that’s right. Armageddon could hit tomorrow and he and his wife would … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, At Home, Green Friends, Green Ideas
Tagged AC power, appliances, Bullitt Foundation, cartoon book on climate change, climate change apathy, climate change confusion, clivus multrum, compost toilet, composting toilet, convert AC, DC power, Energy Star, filtering water, German steca refrigerator, giardia, green steve, LG washer, net-zero office building, off the grid, park toilet, pit toilet, seattle, solar power, Steca refrigerator, store electricity, trailhead version, water rights, YES! Magazine
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Gamification – Game On?!?
Gamification of climate change is the latest effort by Al Gore to help those of us who are myopically focused on the daily-ness of life to look up and realize that our life support system (the Earth) needs our help. … Continue reading
Posted in Green Ideas
Tagged Al Gore, carbon rally, climate change, climate reality project, epic win, gamers, games, Gamification, Jane McGonigal, Malcolm Gladwell, Practically Green, reality drop, Recycle Bank, War of the Worlds, World of Warcraft
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Win a Solar Power System
I don’t know about you, but when I get my electric bill, or any bill for that matter, if it is in paper form, I dump all the inserts into recycle and just focus on the bill itself. And, even … Continue reading
Posted in Alternative Energy, At Home, Green Ideas
Tagged City of Bainbridge Island, green power, green power challenge, green power program, PSE, Puget Sound Energy, renewable energy, solar power, sustainable bainbridge, win solar power
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Time for Product Reviews!
On Monday Green Steve posted a link on FaceBook of his radio interview about how the UK (where he lives) could save half a million tonnes of C02 if everyone switched to recycled toilet paper. I chafe more at the whole … Continue reading
Posted in At Home, Green Ideas, My CO2 Footprint, Recycling, Shopping
Tagged 100% recycled paper, Canada, Canadian, Chris Goodall, composting, green steve, kleenex, paper products, paper towels, recycle, recycled paper, recycled toilet paper, Seventh Generation, tissue, toilet paper
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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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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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