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Simple Green: Bake Things Together

Between tomorrow and next Friday, we will be attending three separate Thanksgiving celebrations, one office potluck, and two birthday parties. ('Tis the season!) And since we enjoy cooking and never l...

Dragging Your Feet: Making Green Compromises, Part 2

Last week, we talked about some of the compromises we'd made in our going green, deciding that it was, as the saying goes, about progress not perfection. We wanted to make our going green as easy a...

Dragging Your Feet: Making Green Compromises

Right after we made the choice to switch our bulbs from incandescents to CFLs, a very opinionated friend of ours came by. "Ugh," he said, "I hate CFLs. The light they give off is so awful." We agr...

MyEmissionsExchange.com: Save Energy, Earn Cash

Here's a no-brainer fact: lower your utility bills and you'll save cash. What if you could get double rewards? Save money and earn money at the same time? Sounds too good to be true? Not this ti...

Simple Green: Use It One More Day, One More Time

We had this crazy great aunt. (Everyone seems to have at least one crazy relative in their family.) She had many quirks that we'd make fun of, but there was one that we thought was particularly hil...

Simple Green: Choose Eco-Friendly Services

While stuck in traffic yesterday, we noticed one car of the fleet for a locally-owned pest control service. The car touted chemical-free, organic pest control and had one other special detail: it was ...

A Chart To Help You Save Water
via Good Magazine

Apple or orange? Coffee or tea? Wine or beer? Although we like to think so, it's not the sweeping changes you make that have the biggest impact. Often, it's the small choices that you make every d...

Simple Green Entertaining: Use What You Have, Borrow What You Don’t

Last week my boyfriend & I hosted our very first Thanksgiving dining. My BF was most excited about the cooking, while I was definitely more excited about the cleaning, organizing and decorating in pre...

Simple Green: Recycled Toilet Paper

We're betting your first thought is "ewww..." After you get over your skiivies, stop and think. According to Molly Roemer, LA City editor of green blog site IdealBite, as quoted in Angeleno magazine...

Simple Green: Try a Low VOC Paint

We talk a lot about the wonders of adding a coat of paint to spruce up, well, life. It seems the right color can transform a room or a piece of furniture into something so awesome you hardly recogniz...

Simple Green: Recycle at Ikea

Hanging out in the returns area at Ikea we were reminded a) we hate returning things, it always takes forever and b) oh yeah you can recycle toner cartridges, light bulbs and batteries at Ikea. pos...