Help! My healthy, green lifestyle has produced a serious conundrum. On one hand, I am making genuine progress with my health. Acupuncture and massage have improved my sense of well being while giving up dairy has alleviated my chronic sinus condition allowing full, relaxed breathing. Much better. On the other hand, I am a big admirer of fashion and although I have a very meager…
Category Archives: Clean Air
Does Anyone Want My Lexus? IGO Car Sharing!
Car payments, leases, insurance, gas, parking, washes, maintenance, I-Pass… it all adds up. Before you know it, you are in over your head. When I look at all the extras in owning our car, I always come back to the basic philosophy our family recently adopted. We want less. However, this simple life strategy isn’t…
Green Your Ride: Family-Friendly Eco-Cars
With gas prices at all-time highs, who couldn’t use a few less trips to the pump? Of course, the absolutely best way to save gas is not to drive at all. Walk, ride bikes, or carpool instead. But if you need to drive, the next best thing you can do is to make sure that…
Paradise Lost, Garbage: Found
Need physical proof we are daily polluting our most valuable and natural resources? Look no further than the Hawaiian islands. Lapping lazily in a relatively stationary section of the North Pacific Ocean, in between San Francisco and Hawaii, accumulated waste swirls in a never-ending circle, pushed along by the North Pacific Gyre, a large-scale vortex…
Hitting the Wall
In an effort to get in better shape and create a more pleasurable commute, my husband bought a bike. Since he is one of those lucky people who has a knack for picking up new skills with ease, he assumed that riding a bike would be as easy as swinging one leg over his bicycle,…
Let it rot!
These days, I see a lot of “R”s added to what was originally the sacred trinity of green living: Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. My personal favorite is “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle, Rot,” used to encourage folks to compost their food scraps and yard waste instead of consigning it to the burn pile or the landfill. Many of…
Around the Greenosphere: Weekly Link Roundup
More inspiration for the weekend: -An inspiration post about biking from One Green Generation (with amazing photos). -Run DMT is talking about why organic produce really IS better. -What gets us buying the latest and greatest? No Impact Man reminds us that the zero sum game (i.e., I get everything, you have nothing) is how…
No Idling!
I can vividly recall riding the school bus when I was a kid. I remember the ride as being very long, very boring, and very stinky. And while I was probably exaggerating the long and boring parts (my ride lasted about 15 minutes) I now know that I wasn’t imagining the stink… A recent Yale University…
Our Journey with Food Allergies and Asthma
Soon after my oldest son decided he was done breastfeeding, he began to have fits in his sleep where he would thrash back and forth and bang his arms and legs against the crib. After receiving my videotape of Jack sleeping, Dr. Weissbluth assured me that Jack would not hurt himself and we continued to monitor him closely. He recommended a pediatric…
10 Easy Ways To Reduce Paper Consumption
Paper and paper products are among the most recycled items that we dispose of according to waste disposal statistics. However, considering that the average American consumes roughly 7 trees per year in paper, wood, and other products made from trees and that our combined dependence on trees equals a total of 2 billion trees each…
