This week’s Do One Thing is about your car and the air that it breathes. Every car has an air filter that filters the air before it gets sucked into your engine to be combined with the fuel and burned to create energy. It’s vitally important that the air filter is clean, and that’s why [...]
Thanks to my friend Nan over at Desert Verde for sending along this idea for a Do One Thing post. If you want to easily and rather inexpensively reduce heat loss in the winter and keep heat out in the summer, there isn’t anything more effective than making sure your ceiling or attic is properly [...]
The sidewalks around here sure do get a lot of watering during the day. Not sure what these people are trying to grow, but maybe concrete DOES multiply if you give it enough water! If you are watering your lawn using sprinklers, please be sure to calibrate them correctly so that the sidewalks and the [...]
My friend Waylon over at Elephant Journal has penned a great piece titled “Pepsi to Greenies: How much for the conscience? that is just fantastic. I have written before about how people who call themselves “green” are too busy greenwashing for dirty, horrible companies in exchange for cash that they cannot even see their own [...]
This week’s Do One Thing is actually about doing nothing at all. Day in and day out, some of us apply potentially unsafe cleaners, makeup, and makeup removers to our bodies, rarely giving our skin (or insides) a break from this toxic soup. So if you aren’t fully switched over to safer products yet, I [...]
While seemingly obvious to many people, the idea of spending a few bucks to fix something rather than tossing it in the landfill is losing some appeal in the new era of living throwaway lives. Sometimes I feel as though we are being programmed to think that everything we buy is “single-use” only! That’s why [...]
Did you know that most recycling facilities won’t or cannot recycle plastic caps from soda, shampoo, or milk bottles? Me neither. However, instead of throwing them in the trash, you now have a much better option – Aveda salons will recycle those plastic caps. Join Aveda’s caps recycling initiative that helps extend the current boundaries [...]
