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green living

NoMix Toilets Could Power Your House and Feed Your Plants

March 15, 2010

Roediger NoMix toilet (urine diversion flush toilet).
Move over dual flushing toilets. Meet the NoMix toilet, which separates your number 1 from your number 2. Okay, Anna. What’s the trick here? Who cares if a toilet can separates my bodily movements.
Hear me out. There is a method to my madness. What is a the point of a No Mix [...]

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Demand Stronger Environmental Guidelines for Dioxin

March 11, 2010

Photo by Ethan Prater
The Center for Health, Environment, and Justice sent me the following email asking for all of us to take action to demand stronger environmental guidelines to Dioxin. I mentioned this horrible chemical in my article, “Are Toxic Chemicals Lurking in your Furniture and Building Products? ” One product that contains dioxin is PVC. [...]

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Is Faxing Bad for the Environment?

March 10, 2010

The other day, I received my second unwanted fax from a broadcast advertiser. In my post, “How to Stop Unwanted Faxes,” I gave you the keys on how to stop these faxes from showing up in your fax tray. But as I thought about it more and more, was faxing just plain bad for the [...]

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How to Stop Unwanted Fax Advertisements.

March 9, 2010

The other night the phone rang at 3 am in the morning! It scared the H out of me. As I rolled over to pick up the phone, I noticed it was my fax line that was ringing. Who in the heck was faxing me in the middle of the night?
Readers, has this happened to [...]

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Are Toxic Chemicals Lurking in your Furniture and Building Products?

March 7, 2010

Photo by Phillip Stewart
Did you ever wonder if what we bring into our homes could be increasing our risk of cancer, developmental issues in our children, or asthma? How could a lovely PVC shower curtain or new stain resistant couch cause any problems? Or perhaps that new shade of yellow paint that smelled for a [...]

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Do you Know What’s in Your Food Pantry?

March 5, 2010

How many of you watch the Capital One commercials , especially the maroders or hooligans ones? At the end of the commercial, they ask, “what’s in your wallet?” Well, I am asking you the same thing about your pantry or medicine cabinet. Well, the Capital One gang visited my house this year. They pillaged, destroyed, and wretched my pantry. [...]

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The Dirty Secrets of a Green Food Waster

March 4, 2010

A green food waster. What an oxymoron. I am not proud of what I am going to confess. As green as I think I have become, my family and I are food wasters. Our habits are hurting the Earth. How so?
Every couple of months I can’t stand the clutter or dirty drawers in my [...]

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What’s Your Reading of Listening Preference? Audio, Video, or Blog

March 2, 2010

I really enjoy podcasting but it is alot of work to put it up on the site and then write my usual articles about a product or company. I wish that people would just listen to the podcast so I could skip writing. I took an informal poll of my Green Carnival Moms and majority [...]

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Beth Terry Makes Living without Plastic Easy.

March 1, 2010

Beth Terry is my hero. I have been following Beth and Fake Plastic Fish, the blog she pens for over two years. Beth has inspired others including yours truly on how to live a plastic free life. She makes her readers think about their own consumption with a healthy dose of plastic free alternatives to [...]

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Please Buckle Up so You Can Live to Tell the Story

February 19, 2010

Last night during on our Green Moms Carnival blab-fest, Beth of Fake Plastic Fish sent an email to the group about watching the above video. ( What’s a Green Mom Carnival blab-fest? It is a mad rush of emails back and forth among the members of our Green Mom Carnival group about various topics.) Thanks, [...]