I saw an article on The Atlantic a few days ago called ‘The Most Hard-Core Ways to Go Green,” and frankly, it was a bit rubbish. The suggestions were either not very low impact or not very hardcore. An expensive shower that forcibly ejects you after a few minutes? Unnecessary. DIY cleaning supplies? Check. A [...]
Posts Tagged ‘carbon footprint’
15 Sep
Share a Car!
I have successfully persuaded Emily from Living Lightly in a Wavering World to do my work guest blog for me while I’m away on holiday. Emily is a gardener, a minimalist, a fellow childfree blogger, and a survivor of life without a washing machine or fridge. And she’s not at all obnoxious about being a deeper shade of green than you [...]
16 Jul
Overpopulation AND Overconsumption
Exactly as if we didn’t have bigger things to worry about, here comes a new ‘debate’ right in time for July 11, World Population Day: Which is more of a problem, overpopulation or overconsumption? Really? Really? This is like arguing about whether green M&Ms taste better than blue ones. (Of course they do.) You don’t [...]
10 Jul
Ways I’ve gotten greener this year
Greenness is hard to quantify. (In fact, color is hard to quantify, within and without human perspective, but that’s a whole different story.) But in the last year, I think I’ve been hedging towards lime and away from lemon on the color wheel. Comparing this year and previous years: I did not take six (ouch!) [...]
