Photo courtesy of Swaptree.com How many times have you heard, “Mom, I am bored of this game? Buy me a new one!” Perhaps, you’ve just bought another book (again), finished it, put it on the shelf to never open it again. You are tired of spending money on games, books, or CDs that you or [...]
October 2007
Photo courtesy of Community Green After reading the title to this Article, your first impression is who is Community Green and is New Jersey remotely green? Believe it or not, New Jersey is known as the garden state for a reason and it is not due to its long turnpike bearing the same name. It is [...]
Photo courtesy of Second Rotation, Inc Every time you open a drawer or closet, there is unused electronic equipment staring you in the face. Should you try and sell it? Then you think, that could be too much of a hassle. Perhaps you should throw it away? Who is going to want it anyway? Stress [...]
How many lunch boxes do you pack in a week? Several for your children? Maybe a couple for you? I looked at my own children’s plastic footprint and it was astonishing. My high school children use to pack the above lunch every day. Chips, Plastic water bottle, and sandwich in a plastic bag. According to waste-freelunches.org [...]
Courtesy of TerraCycle, Inc. What does fundraising, soda bottles, yogurt cups, drinking pouches, and worm poop have in common? Give up? I know that is a tough set of words to figure out the correlation. Just ask the innovative folks over at TerraCycle, maker of worm poop fertilizer and other assorted eco-friendly gardening products. They [...]
Photo by Tannazie by permission under the Creative Commons Share-Alike License 2.0 Although it is still October, the holiday season will be upon us sooner than you think. In anticipation of this season, PTAs, charities, and religious organizations all over the country will be unveiling holiday fundraisers in the form of holiday wrapping paper, cookie dough [...]
Am I getting ready for Halloween? People ask me this since my “ghostly” garden is the first thing you see when you drive up to my house. It sure looks that way. Last week, the weather changed in New Jersey from an Indian summer to a “cold windy I wish I did not live here” [...]
For many of you, October 15 is known as the last day you can file your tax returns with the Internal Revenue Service. Today could be filled with sorting papers resulting in paper cuts, checking feverishly to make sure everything is right on your tax return, and racing down to the post office before it closes to [...]
Photo by permission of the LR6 by LED Lighting Fixture, Inc, At Lightfair 2007 in New York City, there were so many promising CFL and LED fixtures. One that caught my eye was LED Lighting Fixture, Inc.’s LR6. This LED looked like it was wearing a metal hat and simply screwed into a typical 6” [...]
Updated 3/21/2011: My roses would start the season with beautiful glossy leaves. But by the middle of the season, the leaves would be downright ugly due to a fungal disease called Rust. I figured my sprinkler system was the culprit that caused the problem since roses do not like their foliage to remain wet. Last summer, they looked so terrible that I [...]
