Recent Posts Tagged With 'home'

• Day 152- Turn it off for the planet

  Posted on Friday March 27th, 2009 at 14:37 in politics, home, events, lighting, Cost, reduce, $0- free

  Back on Day 129, I wrote about taking the time to turn off all non essential lighting. I recently stumbled across a cool event that is actually happening around the world on Saturday March 28, 2009 called Earth Hour. It is basically turning off all e...

• Day 150- A Toilet to Dye For

  Posted on Tuesday February 10th, 2009 at 10:18 in home, water, Cost, reduce, $1- $99

  I would like to pass on a bit of parenting advice that I have learned over the weekend before we begin today. If your children are playing quietly in their rooms, then you should definitely go ahead and check in on them—they are up to no good. Sure...

• Day 143- Seal of Approval

  Posted on Monday January 19th, 2009 at 18:15 in home, Cost, insulation, $1- $99, $ amount varies

  Back on Day 137, I wrote about sealing up the small cracks around your windows and doors. As I look closer at the subject of sealing your gaps, I have neglected to look at the products one would use to perform this maintenance. Until now, your choice...

• Day 137- How Many Windows and Doors Do You Have?

  Posted on Friday December 5th, 2008 at 05:24 in home, Cost, insulation, $ amount varies

  About fifteen years ago, a friend of mine said that he was making some pretty good money setting appointments for their sales force. It was presented to me as more of a clerical position, but I quickly realized that it was more of a shrewd telemarket...

• Day 134- How to Really Green Your Thanksgiving Part Two

  Posted on Wednesday November 26th, 2008 at 06:52 in travel, home, holidays, food, recycle, reduce, reuse, $0- free

  The turkey is ready, the Detroit Lions are on their way to another resounding loss, most of your guests have arrived and amazingly there have been no family arguments yet. So far so good. As the house heats up with the oven and stove, crack a window ...

• Day 130- Non-Point Source Pollution

  Posted on Monday November 17th, 2008 at 06:35 in home, garden, water, $0- free

  Consider the leaf for a moment. Depending on where you live, you may have a few left on your trees or your trees are completely bare. Either way, I was thinking about leaves and their environmental impact a lot this past weekend as a windy cold front...

• Day 118- Against the Wind

  Posted on Friday October 17th, 2008 at 08:07 in home, garden, reduce, $ amount varies

  Needless to say, it took a while to find the right resources when I was first searching the Internet for documentation on “breaking wind”. I had to change the words around a few times and finally got what I was looking for when I used &#...

• Day 112- How Many Do You Have?

  Posted on Friday October 10th, 2008 at 05:44 in home, water, food, commentary, reduce, $0- free

  We have four and a half sets of dishes. Our everyday stuff, the ones we got as a gift from the hotel in Jamaica for our honeymoon (which we don’t use), special holiday everyday dishes, “the good stuff” that we have all wrapped up r...