Make sure what you’re washing gets truly clean. It doesn’t make sense to toss your personals in the wash with conventional detergent where they will bathe in chemicals. Stop overdosing on the bad stuff and start washing with natural soap in cold water (except use some warm or hot when you are sick to get [...]
You know the drawer in your kitchen filled with utensils that serve one single purpose and typically aggravate you more than serve you? If you want to cut the crusts off a sandwich, use a knife – you don’t need a separate gadget to accomplish it, right?! If you simplify, it’ll be easier to find [...]
The name says it all…“junk”mail! Of course you need to get rid of it. The industry standard for a successful unaddressed advertising campaign is a 2% response rate, which means 98% of the resources making junk mail are wasted! You can put a stop to it right now – no cost to you, big savings [...]
We’re busy people, and always in a rush, I am too, so I get it. But how much time does it really take to turn off the engine, and turn it back on? Idling for more than 10 seconds burns gas TWICE as fast as driving for that same amount of time! It also produces [...]
We all have WAY too much stuff. Where do we put it? When are we going to use it again? Where does it go when we no longer need it? Take a look to your left, and another to your right and check out how much stuff surrounds us, most of which we probably could [...]
If it stinks, it stinks. Perfumes and anything with the ingredient “fragrance” that we use everyday can contain a dozen or more secret chemicals not listed on labels, such parabens, phthalates and other synthetic compounds that experts label as harmful to our bodies (and our water when washed away). These chemicals can trigger allergic reactions [...]
Screaming with your arms flailing at an eco-sinner who is standing in the next aisle asking for their grocery items to be double plastic bagged makes you an eco-sinner, too. Rather than being angry and finger-wagging, promote eco-education with kindness and understanding (plus, charm always gets you further anyway). A great way to do this [...]
Being eco means not buying and wrapping everything up in sight without thought. According to the Use Less Stuff Report, wrapping paper and shopping bags alone account for about 4 million tons of trash annually in the US. Even the production of it all causes harm – think of all of that ink and paper. [...]
Go corn-free…we don’t mean corn-on-the-cob, we mean corn-fed meat, corn-sweetened juice and pop, corn-oiled salad dressings, crackers and cereals with corn, corn syrups, corn solids, corn starches and more GMO, processed food product! Corn-stuff is in way too much of our food and everyday products, especially from packages and restaurants. Corn has many ways of [...]
Powering up all the gadgets in our lives with conventional batteries and then dumping them in landfills creates a toxic mess. Instead, try rechargeables. They are 20% less harmful than tossing out a one-time-use one and if stored properly – you can get a lot more charge out of the battery life. Read up on [...]
