I’m cleaning off my desk and decided to put all my "good ideas" in one place… Here!
Bypass the dry cleaner: find a green cleaner at NoDryClean.com
Fridge maintenance: once a year, unplug your fridge and clean the coils in the back to help it run more efficiently
Sponges – use them more to clean up as opposed to paper towels – wash them in the dishwasher to disinfect
Options for wrapping gifts:
Paper sack – like the ones you used to bring your lunch in, before neoprene became popular. Add decorative elements
Use tid bits of left over wrapping to create an attractive mosaic
No paper in the house? use music sheets, or magazine pages, or a map or an old scraf or strips of fabric.
I just posted a really long comment — where did it go?
Poop, I don’t know… Maybe ella ate it? :)
Well, I just told you about all the stuff we do here to be green. The City of Honolulu just gave us big blue bins for our recycling and they pick them up every other Wednesday (the alternate Wednesday they take yard clippings, etc. for the city mulcher — and they provide free mulch to gardeners. Coo, huh?
My love is an oceanographer/botanist, so he was my motivator to get green. We have a bus pass and a bicycle, and limit the car usage as much as possible. Our laundry soap isn’t "green" right now, but I finally found a place here in the island that sells 7th Generation so it will be green from now on.