So, we finally ordered a compost bin from Amazon, as not one single store here in town had any left! Seems composting has taken on a life of it’s own here, as they cannot keep any in stock for more than a day or two. Sure, I could just start a pile in the backyard, [...]
I am going to ask you guys for your advice with this post. We moved here to Taos, NM, a little while ago and while the town claims to be very progressive, even proclaiming to be a “Fair-Trade Town”, they have a major Achilles’ Heel – They do not recycle any plastic at all. Nothing. [...]
The internet is speedy, the sky is blue, the clouds are puffy and I am alive and well after a 15 hour drive with a packed Subaru, a tired wife, and a very angry cat. Although I have not heard a word from the movers about when our stuff is arriving, I don’t really care [...]
In preparing for our move, we decided to finally get rid of every single case for the DVD’s and CD’s we had been keeping in our bookcase – there were just too many of them! A while back I had purged a large amount of them and sent them to the recycling bin, but we [...]
What in the world am I talking about? Well, those of you who have been reading the site for the last couple of months have heard about our trip to New Mexico, our stay in an Earthship, and our final decision to pack up and move from Los Angeles to Taos, NM. And now, we [...]
In response to my post about the amount of cellphones discarded in this country each day, Paige from The Budget Ecoist wrote to me about a cellphone recycling service she came across called Eco-Cell. I am so glad she let me know about this because it is so important that our used phones get recycled [...]
With the economy the way it is and the growing concern about the environment, people are looking for more ways to save money and reduce the amount of trash they throw away. Well, if you look hard enough, there are a ton of things that come into our houses that we can reuse for multiple [...]
