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Category: Home + Living

  • Eco Typo

    I think the folks who make Eco Filter Plus may have learned the hard way that spell check doesn’t catch everything.

  • Nellie’s PVC Free Dryerballs: Work in Progress?

    I really wanted to like poor old Nellie’s PVC-free dryerballs. A few years ago on another blog, I had complained about the dangers of PVC and questioned why a supposedly green product contained it. Well, they listened to all the complaining by people like me, but unfortunately their product didn’t…

  • Where did the coffeemakers go?

    Walk into any Williams-Sonoma or Bed, Bath and Beyond and you won’t have trouble finding a plethora of drip coffeemakers to buy. However… You won’t find any coffeemakers made in the USA. I don’t know the story behind our coffee people deciding to ship out the biz. Americans love their…

  • Stuff: Our Modern-Day Slave Master

    Enjoy this guest post/book excerpt from Tsh Oxenreider, who blogs at SimpleMom.net. I’ll review her new book soon, but this post should give you a good idea of what the book is about — just in case you or someone you love is looking for inspiration to simply! That’s a…

  • Saturday’s Stairs: Electronics Story, Eco Christmas Trees and More

    In The Story of Electronics — and the story of my 4.5-year-old laptop, blogger LA Green Girl is discussing a topic that’s been on my mind a lot — our obsession with updating to the latest electronics as soon as they’re out, old ones broken or not. It’s often difficult…

  • Fair Trade (and Green) Metal Sculpture from Haiti

    As mentioned a few posts back, I just got into a new home. With too many bare walls to fill, I  went in search of some good art. At Gaiam, I found this Fair Trade sculpture made by hand without the use of electricity from a clean 55 gallon oil…

  • Tubeless Toilet Paper

    Kimberly-Clark has rolled out big change in the world of toilet paper. They’re going tubeless with their new Scott Naturals Tube-Free toilet paper. I haven’t tried this product yet. According to a recent USA Today article, the new tubeless TP is only available in test markets in the Northeast. If…

  • New Green Household Products (and so easy to find)

    It’s a good sign that I don’t have to go out of my way lately to find more environmentally friendly household products. I don’t deem them all to be perfect or their makers to be eco angels, but it’s encouraging to see more products like these in everyday shopping places.…

  • Making Your Own Bread

    One of my nicknames is “The Dessert Queen” since for years I’ve enjoyed baking fun, even complicated desserts. But I never really got into bread making much. Other than the occasional batch of cornbread or biscuits, I very rarely ever made by own bread. For close to two months now…

  • Cooling Thoughts in Heat Wave

    Densely populated areas like New York City can become “their own overheated micro-climates,” says CBS News. However, planted rooftops can dramatically help cool things down. Plus, they’re pretty to gaze upon. Besides having a cooling effect in busy urban areas, container gardening or roof landscaping may also help provide relaxing…