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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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Don’t Blame Me if You Get Addicted…
Something big is happening here..and even though you’re part of the change…its so subtle you may not have noticed…allow me: In 2007 Annie Leonard outlined, with a sense of humor, how we are systematically consuming and polluting the earth’s resources … Continue reading
Posted in Green Ideas, Recycling, Saving Money, Shopping
Tagged Annie Leonard, clothes, donate, donate clothes, goodwill, goodwill online, Macklemore, Marie Kondo, recycle, reusable, sash mercantile, shops, Story of Stuff, stuff, thred up, Thredup, thredup.com, thrift, thrift shop, thrift store, thriftstores, upcycle, used, used clothes
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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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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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Sustainable Bainbridge’s Zero Waste Starts BYOM Campaign
Starting April 1st, Sustainable Bainbridge’s Zero Waste along with the help of Buy Nothing Bainbridge (BNB), is launching a waste reduction campaign called BYOM (Bring Your Own to-go Mug) in honor of Earth Day. The campaign entails posting BYOM clings … Continue reading
Posted in Green Ideas, My CO2 Footprint, Recycling, Saving Money
Tagged Earth Day, Farmers Market, sustainable bainbridge, to go mugs, to-go, to-go cups, togo, waste reduction, zero waste
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Divestment and You
If you don’t manage a stock portfolio you might be thinking: “divestment has nothing to do with me.” However, if you’re employed and over 40, even if you don’t own stocks, you probably have a 401K or retirement fund or … Continue reading
Posted in At Work, Green Ideas, Saving Money
Tagged 401K, bonds, ceres, clean energy bonds, clean energy investing, climate change, coal, fossil fuels, funds, Goldman Sachs, green stocks, investing, investors, natural gas, portfolio, reduce risk, retirement, risk mitigation, solar, Solarcity, stocks, water consumption
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Water Instead of Soda
Drink water instead of soda. It’s good for you and the environment. But, what if I said, drink bottled water instead of soda? Two nights ago I saw a TV ad which made me cringe. The message was that if … Continue reading
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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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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