This is an easy one! A wind-up alarm clock in your bedroom does a few things for you – A. it doesn’t use any electricity, B. it keeps electromagnetic fields out of your bedroom and next to your head. Electric clocks and their electromagnetic fields can interrupt your sleep and often give off the EMF [...]
With more and more companies putting full ingredient lists on their products, there really isn’t any reason to buy from a company that won’t. After all, if they won’t tell you what is in the item they are selling you, what is in it? What are they afraid of letting you know about? It started [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is a very, VERY simple one – use refillable pens. Over six billion pens are thrown away each year in the US alone, and that plastic may not decompose for hundreds of years. What can you do to help? Buy a few pens that you can just replace the ink [...]
If you use a dryer and do a lot of laundry, did you know that drying your loads back to back saves energy as the heating element stays warm and doesn’t have to heat back up? So this winter while you are using the dyer instead of hanging your clothes outside, make sure to Do [...]
Now that I have moved from a house with radiant floor heat to an apartment with forced air heating, I am really thinking about how much energy I use to heat my place. I have 2 bedrooms and 2 bathrooms and while it hasn’t been that cold here yet, I have had to turn on [...]
Drink a lot of water at home? (I hope it’s tap and not bottled!) Instead of turning the faucet on and running it until you get cold water, why not keep a pitcher in the fridge at all times so you always have an ice-cold beverage? This will reduce the amount of wasted water that [...]
This week’s Do One Thing comes from my friend Nan Fischer, an Eco-Broker here in Taos, New Mexico. When you buy gas, tell the pump that you don’t want a receipt. Not only will you be saving some paper, but it has also been reported that these kinds of receipts are coated with BPA. Wondering [...]
