Photo by Cathy Stanley-Erickson by permission Could your reading appetite be causing greenhouse emissions and the degradation of our forests? Reading is a wonderful pastime, but if you are like many people, your credit card is worn from the amount of books you buy every year. Do you ever re-read your books? I didn’t think [...]
January 2008
Photo by permission of Viesso Your In-laws or friends are coming to visit, but you don’t have a bed for them or even room for one in your home. Asking a guest to sleep at a hotel is not in your nature. You could buy a vinyl “blow-up” bed. Then you quickly come to your [...]
An Unsucessful cleaning of my new Envirobrush I am a complete sucker for any product that includes the word, “Enviro,” in its name. Even if it is pure green marketing, the product definitely has my attention. Well, I had an “enviro” moment recently in all places, the hardware store. I needed to buy a paint [...]
Photo by permission of Guardian Unlimited of a weekly pledge Tread Lightly is a new campaign created by the creators of Guardian Unlimited, an online UK environmental news magazine. This campaign encourages us to take steps to reduce our own CO2 emissions through weekly pledges. Realizing that most people feel that reducing their footprint [...]
