This week’s Do One Thing is about water – the water you let run while you are brushing your teeth. Way too many people leave the water running out of the tap as they brush their teeth! In fact, if everyone in the United States shut off the water while they brushed, we [...]
“It’s easy to go green!” goes the slogan, right? And in fact, it is quite easy to green up your lifestyle if you put your mind to it. There are those people who just change their light bulbs and then there are those people who choose to live off the grid, grow [...]
Some of you may remember that a month ago I canceled trash pickup at my house. This was for several reasons, two of which are the price of pickup and the lack of maintenance/pollution from the Waste Management trucks. When we did have trash pickup, we were disposing of between 2-3 bags of trash [...]
When it’s time to pull that old carpet up and either replace it or go for the wood/concrete look, what can you do with it? Should you just throw it in the landfill like everyone used to do? Nope – you should recycle it! According to the Carpet America Recovery Effort, nearly [...]
