Reduce, Reuse, Recycle -Be The Change

We are big on the 3 R’s of course. But every now and then we have a particularly poignant example. Like after the first month of our Big Push to reduce and we went to only taking trash out every other week -and even then only due to odor, and never due to [...]

Small Steps: Basement Clothesline

Like most readers of this blog, we are striving to live lighter on the land. We watch our consumption, drive fuel efficient cars, offset our carbon emissions with green energy, and grow alot of our own food. One thing that we struggle with here was discussed to some degree in the last post. [...]

My Eco Mama: Just One Thing

Mia and I despise The Lamers. Lamers are anyone that slings mud at someone for “not doing enough”. Easy examples are criticizing the Prius driver for being “totally lame” for not biking to work, or beating up on someone for buying organic cereal instead of bulk steel cut oats. What started [...]

Big Green Purse: Shopping for the World You Want

While I am almost daily confronted with the fact that I am crossing the ill defined line from interest into obsession when it comes to Green Issues which among other things is making me a difficult conversationalist (I do not advise bringing up supposedly poor mileage of the Prius or try to [...]