This week’s Do One Thing involves outdoor lighting. Many people, come nightfall, turn on their outside lights and leave them on all night. (We have a neighbor like that, but they live far enough away that it doesn’t affect us too much) Not only is this a waste of electricity, but it also contributes to [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is in honor of Earth Day, and it requires no effort at all. Just don’t buy anything “extra”. The amount of waste generated around the world because of consumer habits is astounding, and in the U.S. alone the typical American family throws out 2,460 pounds of paper, 540 pounds of [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is so very, very simple. Everyone knows there is a lint filter inside a clothes dryer, but how often do you clean it out? I clean ours out every single time I use it, which hopefully will be much less now that it is warm outside and I got the [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is about getting involved in the political process. When I was younger, I tended to avoid getting involved because I thought that it didn’t matter what “we, the people” thought. It’s only been in the last 10 years or so that I realized that “we, the people” add up to [...]
We have not used antibacterial soaps in our house for years, yet no bugs have come along to kill us yet. The fact is is that the increased usage of antibacterial everything is actually going to make us sicker in the long run. From Mother Jones magazine (one of our favorites), I wanted to share [...]
This weeks Do One Thing is about the checks that you write. If you are anything like me, you don’t write many checks at all – I think I write about 2 or 3 a month at most with everything else being paid automatically online (the greenest way to go). But because we ran out [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is about those little maps and pamphlets you pick up when you visit a new place. The first thing you do when you arrive is to grab the map and the informational brochure and head out to explore the area – you know the drill. But if you are not [...]
