Green Week Day 1: Using Less Paper

How cute is this wee one, rocking the recycling? This photo is one of several already submitted to the Green Week photo pool, celebrating the best of reducing, reusing and recycling. Today’s earth-friendly idea is using cloth instead of disposable anything. Such...

Green Week

I am so impressed with your ideas for treading a bit lighter on mama earth. Awesome! So, I got to thinking — how about we show each other how we incorporate these ideas into our everyday routine? Next week will be Green Week around here. To participate, please...

The Bare Minimum

Want to help the earth, but didn’t make it to the concerts this weekend? Can’t afford to purchase a Prius or are just too lazy to figure out the bus schedule? Good news: you can still help. The very least we can all do is to stop using plastic grocery bags...

Cooking Up Some Love

I whipped up a few cloth napkin aprons this weekend and gave them out today as Valentine’s gifts. A friend gave me this embroidered heart last week. She made it on some fancy sewing machine and had attached a ribbon so it could be used as a bookmark. I said...

In Triplicate

My shower faucet broke three weeks ago. The plastic handle cracked in two and eventually fell apart, leaving a steady trickle of water pooling in the tub. I didn’t want to think about calling my handyman, but I knew something had to be done. There would be the...