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Simple Green Tip: Clean Your Counters With a Paintbrush

Full disclosure: We stole this idea from one of our favorite breakfast places in the East Bay. We like to give credit where credit is due: So, Homemade Cafe, thanks for this one! ...

The Great Green Compromise: Paper Towels for a Guest

We mentioned last week that a friend would be staying with us for three weeks. You overwhelmingly agreed that we should stop letting the yellow mellow, but basically enforce all other green househol...

Re-nest Hot Posts: Green Clean the Mold/Mildew in My Shower, Do It Yourself Cleaning Products, Save Your Local Bees, and A Paper Towel-less Life

Readers favorite posts this week at Re-nest were a good question about cleaning the mold/mildew in a shower, do-it-yourself cleaning products in the New York Times, a how to on saving local bees in...

A Paper Towel-less Life

Maybe it's just us, but we don't use paper towels in our home. When guests are hanging out in the kitchen, they're always shocked that we don't have a roll on hand. We think it started out as thrift...

A Green Success: The Paper Towels are Gone!

It was one of those things that happened without much fanfare. In fact, it happened, and it took us a few months to realize it had happened. We bought a pack of Trader Joe's Super Amazing Kitchen ...

"Healthy Shelf" Towel Dispensers at Costco

Danger, danger! We've already come clean about our paper towel addiction. From the name of this new gizmo, which seems designed to increase the consumption of paper towels using the specter of disea...

These Come from Trees

We were in a public restroom last week and made a random discovery. After we washed our hands, we walked over to grab a paper towel, looked up and saw this sticker pasted on the dispenser. "These C...

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