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I decided to find out just how big my carbon footprint is – that is, how much annual carbon dioxide does my lifestyle create? My Google search led me to Earthlab.com, a nonprofit based in Kirkland WA, who’s mission statement is ”The first climate crisis community to be a voice and a forum for people interested in leading [...]
Save our planet! Recycle your fruitcakes by passing them along to the next undeserving person on your gift list. According to the Great Fruitcake Recycling Project it takes 50 years for a fruitcake to decompose in a landfill. Other fun fruitcake facts: In 2005 CBS News announced that fruitcake is a security threat in our nation’s [...]
I can’t wait for the big conversion to digital TV in February. Not because I love digital TV. I just can’t wait to see the end of all of the commercials reminding me of the conversion. The latest ones I saw tonight were a feed under the Muppets Christmas Special. “If you can see this [...]
I spent part of the weekend pulling out all the cheesy Christmas decorations and putting them around the house. We don’t do a big Christmas tree due to our intelligent and highly destructive dog. I am so looking forward to her old age… But I degress. Is it greener to reuse all of the old [...]
“I don’t want to have it all. Because, where would you put it?” –Steven Wright The more I think about it, the more I think Steve Wright is, well, right. I went on my first clutter-busting binge a few years ago after reading a book called Clear Your Clutter With Feng Shui. The author made [...]
When I think about growing my own food, I usually think about growing vegetables in my little back yard. Some friends of mine in the west Denver area keep chickens. “It was my mom’s idea,” says 9 year old Delaney. “The chickens whose eggs you buy in the store are treated really badly. They chop [...]
Green Living Simplified aims to help the environmentally challenged. (That includes me and the other writer of this blog.) We want to do our part to help solve the environmental problems of this planet, but we don’t know where to start. So, we’re going to start in our own back yards (literally) and look for [...]
