This week’s Do One Thing is about the forgotten act of borrowing. Too often we run out to the store the first time we think of something we need without considering the option of finding a place to borrow it for a short time instead. From the easiest to borrow like books, to the more [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is about something I have carried with me since I first moved to California – the use of water to clean off driveways and sidewalks. Could anything be more asinine than to use fresh water instead of a broom to remove debris? I often witnessed shopowners spraying clean, fresh water [...]
This week’s Do One Thing takes place in the grocery store and it involves those little plastic produce bags. While many folks have begun buying reusable produce bags, most of the time you don’t even need a bag at all. I mean, who cares if your bananas touch the peppers? For some produce, like lettuce, [...]
This week’s Do One Thing comes courtesy of a The Good Human reader, who wants you to start bringing your own set of utensils to work every day instead of using and tossing the plastic ones provided in the office kitchen. And while you are at it, see if you can convince a few other [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is about glass versus plastic, and is inspired by something my friend Beth at Fake Plastic Fish wrote about a while back on her site. As some of you may know, Beth’s site is about reducing our use of plastic, and she does an amazing job of detailing what plastic [...]
This week’s Do One Thing involves any junk mail that still finds it’s way into your home. Before you tear it all up and recycle it, check to see if there is a reply envelope inside it. Don’t throw away a perfectly good envelope! Recycle everything else but save that envelope to use for casual [...]
This week’s Do One Thing takes place in the bathroom, but not how you would expect. Turns out many people use their toilet as a trash can, throwing in all sorts of stuff – cotton balls, makeup pencil shavings, tissues they used to blow their noses. Using a toilet as a wastebasket wastes water & [...]
