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AT On... Not Going It Alone

Recently, I was listening to my mother describe the quilt square she had sewn for 350.org's International Day Of Climate Action on October 24 (that's tomorrow!). As I learned about the quilt and saw i...

AT on ... Creative Reuse vs. Clutter

In my effort to be a greener human being, I've seriously curbed my urge to purge. Throughout my life, I've been the opposite of a packrat—always happy to toss things rather than hold onto them. ...

AT on ... Being Thrifty and Being Green
New York Magazine

I've never been much of a shopper. I'd argue that I'm not cheap (I like to occasionally pick up the tab at dinner with friends; I buy organics; I like to travel), but I've never been big on hitting ...

AT on... The Continuing Coffee Debate

Each morning as the trip to the office nears, we turmoil about stopping at a coffeeshop on the way in. For months, we brewed our joe at home, but over the hot summer that fell out of favor and the cof...

AT on... Collections We Could Do Without

Yesterday we showed you some of our favorite thrifted collections, where one person’s trash became another’s treasure. We’re fans of collections with value, sentimental or otherwise, but what ab...

AT on... Comfortable Conservation in the Dog Days of Summer

Before summer began, we shared our energy saving success with you. Little did we know then, during a verdant spring, that we were in store for the record-breaking hottest Texas summer on record. But t...

AT on... Modern Homesteading

A couple of weeks ago, we lugged home 20 pounds of fresh pears from a coworker's farm and, using a decades-old recipe, turned them into jars upon jars of spiced pear butter over the weekend. We love t...

AT on... Green Heroes

Despite the fact that I have nicknames like "Green Police," "Energy Czar" and "Organi-girl," and have earned quite the green living reputation around my office, there are people —many people&mda...

AT on ... The Most Useful Piece of Furniture in Your Home?

What's the most useful piece of furniture in your home? That's something we've been thinking about this summer as we travel to visit friends and accommodate weekend guests. As far as our home is conce...

AT on ... Going Green By Default

Most of our green acts are done consciously: we recycle, we watch our power usage, we eat locally and organically... But all of a sudden, we're in a situation that's left us with no other choice but t...

AT on ... The Lost Art of Cooking?
Michael Pollan in the New York Times 7.29.2009

This week, I'm spending some quality time with the fam in Southern California. When I'm home visiting my parents, I spend most of my day doing two things: cooking with my mom and watching the Food Net...

AT on ... Small Bathrooms
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Small is cool. Small is also green. A small bedroom can be cozy. A small kitchen can be efficient. A small home in general presents an opportunity to use space creatively, to tread more lightly on t...

AT on ... Growing Up in a Green House

Recently, I've been giving a little thought to the way my parents ran their house and how that has affected the way I try to run mine. All in all, I would have to say they set a very good example (whi...

Dr. Bronner Stresses Me Out, Man
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I had a revelation in the shower at 6 AM: the trademark text-heavy label on the Dr. Bronner's bottle makes me dizzy. It's not just the excess of exclamation points and quotation marks! Also sentence...

AT on ... The Allure of a Staycation

Years ago, a boss of mine told me she was taking a vacation and that she'd be gone for a week. I asked her where she was going. She said "Nowhere." She was staying home to relax and accomplish a few t...

AT on ... Living with What You've Got

Recently, my partner and I have been looking more seriously at the open houses and for sale signs in our neighborhood. We've always rented, so the idea of updating or changing anything (other than the...

AT on: Leaving the City...and Entering Suburbia

We went away this past weekend. Along the trip, we stopped our rental car at two big box stores to pick up groceries and some supplies. We’ve lived in New York City for the past 5 years, and now, ...

AT on... Having a Green Agenda VIP

I have a confession to make. Some Most days, I drive a half-mile up a big hill to my bus stop. Yep, I do. Usually just because I'm running late to catch the bus, and I've convinced myself that driving...

AT on ... How Much Space Do You Really Need?

We've been living in a one-bedroom apartment in Northern California for just over two years now. We have two chubby cats and less stuff (we think) than the average couple. However, things have been fe...

AT on... Going Small

Over the weekend, my boyfriend and I stopped to look at a tiny house in the middle of the city. We fell in love: there, in the perfect neighborhood, was this sweet cottage with refinished hardwood flo...

AT on ... The Art of Sharing

Are you a sharer? As cliched as it sounds, growing up, my mom often sent me off to our neighbor's house to borrow an egg, a cup of sugar, a stick of butter. That same neighbor sent her son to our h...

AT on... Why We Volunteer

Last night, during a volunteer shift at the midweek farmers' market, I struck up a conversation with one of the other volunteers. She works as a dietician for a hospital, and I asked her what made her...

AT on ... The Suburbs

Can you build a green home in the suburbs? Here's an answer from a Wall Street Journal column by Roger Lewis: "No matter how green individual homes are, suburban sprawl is intrinsically anti-green. I...

AT on ... Green Regrets

Typically I'm not one who gets any joy out of the green guilt trip — I don't like to give them, I don't like to get them. However, that doesn't mean that little green regrets don't haunt me no...

AT On… Straw Bale Construction

Last summer we attended a weekend long workshop on straw bale construction – which really meant we helped someone actually build their straw bale house. We were hoping to use straw bale construction...

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