This weeks Do One Thing is about watering your plants, trees, and lawn. If you live in an area where you need to do some watering, please be sure to water either early in the morning or very late in the afternoon. Watering in the middle of the day leads to more evaporation than watering, [...]
You KNOW the food tastes better than at those generic chains! While eating local has become a mantra of sorts for the eco-friendly, that normally pertains to buying your take home food from Farmers Markets and the like. But when you eat out, you can also make a difference by eating at local, family-owned restaurants [...]
This week’s Do One Thing comes courtesy of my friends who just visited and have small children. I never really thought about it before, but they do not wash their kids’ plastic cups in the dishwasher, as the heat could make the plastic leech toxic chemicals. I don’t have a dishwasher (well, not one that [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is for those of you who enjoy spending time in the great outdoors. Hiking, biking, camping, boating – while all of these outdoor activities are lots of fun and good for your health, as a devoted “greenie”, you have to be aware of any impact that you may be having [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is about how you cook and/or boil water at home. Did you know that if just 1% of our population put the cover on their pots as they cook, we could save at least 14 BILLION BTU’s worth of energy per day. That’s a lot of wasted energy that could [...]
OK, don’t stop washing them – just stop washing them so often! This week’s Do One Thing is to advise you that when you wash your clothes too often, a few things happen: 1. Your clothes don’t last as long. 2. You use more water & detergent than necessary. Water is one of our most [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is about your feet – and what you can bring into your house by not leaving your shoes at the door. Turns out that 90 to 99% of bacteria found on the exterior of the shoes is transmitted to the floor in your house when you wear your shoes indoors, [...]
