This week’s Do One Thing comes courtesy of something my wife did a few months ago – she wrote a letter. An honest to goodness, pen on paper letter to a local restaurant here in town. When we first moved here last summer, we received a gift certificate to a fancy local restaurant which we [...]
This is an easy one that you won’t even have to suffer for! If every household in America switched out just ONE roll of regular TP for recycled TP, we would: Save 470,000 trees, Use 1.2 million cubic feet LESS landfill space Save about 169 million gallons of water Now imagine if you switched out [...]
I talk a lot on this site about the importance of using reusable bags when shopping at the grocery store, but I wanted to let you in on a little secret – you can use them everywhere! By keeping several bags in our car and maybe a small one rolled up in a purse like [...]
Next time you stay at a hotel for a few days, request that you not get new towels and linens every single day. You don’t get new ones every day at home, and having housekeeping do it at the hotel is a waste of water and energy. Many bigger hotels that we have stayed at [...]
How much junk do you have in your trunk? Are you lugging around a hundred pounds of stuff that you really don’t need in your car? You could be costing yourself gas money every day because of it! Other than emergency supplies, you probably don’t need all that extra “stuff” with you all the time [...]
This week’s Do One Thing comes from my friend Courtney over at the NRDC, and it is about gaming consoles like the Xbox 360 and the Sony Playstation 3 and how much energy they waste. Did you know that even when idle, gaming consoles cost consumers more than $1 billion worth of wasted energy each [...]
Sure, the paper coffee filters are easier to deal with – you just toss them in the trash. But if you had a reusable filter, you could just compost the grounds and rinse out the filter – saving both money and space in the trash! There are many different size reusable, washable filters available for [...]
