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Green Tip #19: Stop that Junk!
Sadly, all the junk in my life is not in my trunk, but in my mailbox. BUT there are two solutions I can take to resolve this problem – more squats and taking a few minutes to declutter my mailbox and...
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Live Below the Line Challenge: $1.50 a day
We often hear some form of the statistic that 80% of the world lives on less than $2 per day. But what does that mean? Turning a person, a family, a people into a statistic cuts off our empathy and...
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Green Tip #20: Simple Clean
Nothing is more satisfying than the easy, one-two bunch of homemade cleaners. Sustainable, safe, and effective, I don’t have to worry about recycling tons of plastic bottles or harming humans,...
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Green Tip #21 ~ REDUCE: The most important R
This Green Tip might be the most important of all: the easiest to talk about and the hardest to implement. REDUCE. We often have more than we need in our daily lives: food, comfort,...
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Green Tip #22: The No (Sham)poo Method
This is quite possibly the worst name for the best thing to happen to my hair care. No Poo means no shampoo, because many of us have enough problems with constipation, which I am not encouraging....
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Green Tip #23: Leave It Better
I was walking home today and there was an abandoned towel on the road. I walked past it, thinking that I should pick it up but worrying about what people would think. Then a car pulled away and the...
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Green Tip #24: Plants!
Ever since my friend the Holistic Health Nerd wrote this amazing post, I’ve had houseplants on the brain. I have what you would call a black thumb. Even cacti have failed under my erratic and...
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Green Tip #25: The 90/10 rule
Some people are going to take issue with this, but when it comes to sustainable living I have a 90/10 rule. I feel like American culture is pretty all or nothing, so many people might feel like they...
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Green Tip #26: Small Things with Great Love
After reading Marianne Williamson’s A Return to Love, I’ve been studying A Course in Miracles. Part of the power behind these two works is their emphasis on staying in the present – not being stuck in...
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Green Tip #27: Put a Value on Nature
Check out this amazing TED talk on all the unseen benefits we get from nature: From ted.com: Every day, we use materials from the earth without thinking, for free. But what if we had to pay for their...
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