I was reading this awesome post by blogger Off White (while eating a Hershey’s bar) on how to reduce your sugar consumption. It has alot of great tips on reducing sugar intake in your daily like. We all think that people who are vegan, or gluten-intolerant, or don’t drink margaritas daily are a bit weird.… [Read more…]
September 6, 2009
(Thanks to SAHM Reviews and Sea-Yu for providing the product for this review.) We have all kinds of smell producers in our house– compost, cat, dog, not-quite-poddy-trained twins, a cloth-diaper-wearing baby. We clean the litter box, the trash can, the compost bucket, the diaper pails regularly, but that doesn’t stop the smells from trying to… [Read more…]
September 4, 2009
There are lots of things that are NOT easier to do with four kids under the age of five. Chainsaw sculptures, for example. And sherpa-ing up Mount Everest. But really, little kids make it fairly easy to be green. Here are some good reasons: 1. Kids like to play with boxes so no need to… [Read more…]
August 5, 2009
yeah, so this is just to report that as of this summer, Colin and I have been using the same four or five glass Snapple bottles to refill and drink water from. FOR TWO YEARS. Am I bragging? Duh. I mean if you haven’t seen NYC’s Take Back the Tap campaign, surely you’ve heard about… [Read more…]
July 29, 2009
There are many reasons we can each say to ourselves “Yeah, I could do better here for sure” when it comes to being green. Mine is that damn iPhone. My friend Suzannah was heading to Prague for a 3 months to a year maybe and she had to get everything she could take into one,… [Read more…]
June 10, 2009
Our Town (Stratford) has announced it is making its bicentennial hazardous waste collection on this JUNE 27th from 8 to 1 at the town’s transfer station. I am excited because that means I can stop pouring our my toxic chemicals such as lead paint, weed killers and Diet Coke down the nearby gutter. I always… [Read more…]
May 18, 2009
I received word from new organizer Sherri Brooks Vinton that Westport Farmer’s Market is opening for the season this weekend (May 21). Here’s her announcement: I am thrilled to announce the season opening of the Westport Farmers’ Market, this Thursday, 5/21 from 10-2 at our NEW LOCATION, the Imperial Avenue commuter parking lot (adjacent to… [Read more…]
February 27, 2009
I think I might be a bad person. Gosh darn it! Not ANOTHER enviro-existential dilemma! Here’s the thing… I LOVE Paperbackswap. It’s this cool, low-key website where you just list the paperbacks — well, any old book you have lying around the house that has an ISBN really — online and forget about it. Then… [Read more…]
February 7, 2009
So I live in a smallish town of 50,000, in New England. For those of you not from this part of the country, the New English people take political landscaping to an entirely different level than anywhere else I have ever been. For example, in Connecticut there is no real county government. Instead, there are… [Read more…]
September 8, 2009
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