This week’s Do One Thing is about recycling and it hits close to home for us. See, our town does not recycle plastic – at all. Not even a little tiny amount. Most people here throw any and all plastic in with their regular trash, which then heads out to the landfill to hang around [...]
This week’s Do One Thing tip is actually a compilation of small things you can do at home or work to save ink and reduce waste in your printing. Without sacrificing print quality, there are a few little changes that go a long way towards this goal! 1. Reduce your margins. Smaller margins = less [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is about soap. In the last few months, we started buying our soap from a local small business here in town. They do everything right in their shop, from the mixing to the heating to the cutting, and you can watch them do if it you want to. Everything they [...]
This weeks’ Do One Thing is about making a natural antibacterial spray. In the last however many years, the idea that we have to spray antibacterial cleaners all over our house and children has come to be fact, when it’s not at all. We actually need germs to survive, and if we “teach” them to [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is about both recycling and composting. Almost every site that sells items dedicated to helping you “go green” has them for sale – those $50+ composting pails that sit on your kitchen counter. These are designed to hold your scraps until you get a chance to bring them outside to [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is to ask you to buy organic, free-trade coffee instead of the normal sludge you might be buying now. Organic coffee beans are grown with no toxic pesticides or fertilizers, and by buying Fair Trade, your money goes to pay a fair wage to small farmers and supports a better [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is all about those plastic straws you get every time you order a drink out anywhere. While I wish that restaurants would ask if you want a straw, most of them don’t – and they end up on the table anyway only to be thrown away whether opened or not. [...]
