This week’s Do One Thing is about renting cars. The next time you need to rent a car while on vacation or when your own is in the shop, consider renting a hybrid Toyota Prius or Honda Civic. When we lived in Los Angeles and only owned one car, we tried to rent [...]
Did you know that on average, each college student buys about one tree worth of textbooks each semester? Over the course of a 4 year degree, that is 8 trees being used just for textbooks that students use for a few months at a time! And while the ones that are in good [...]
The home is in a subdivision of earthships west of town, where every home is off the grid and catches their own rainwater. There are no utilities out here – no power lines, no wells, no gas lines – the homes have propane tanks for cooking with, they use solar or wind energy to power the entire house, from the water filtration system to the television set, and every drop of water in the house is from the cisterns that are part of the home’s design.
