Junk mail begone! Declutter your mailbox
Junk mail fills our mailboxes — 2 pieces a day on average in 2012 — and it can feel nigh impossible to staunch the flow. Sightline published an expose on junk mail in 2016, after a staff member spent years…
Category: Green Home Challenge
Take the Food Waste Challenge to figure out how you can waste less food
The average American family wastes a quarter of the food they buy – an average of $130 worth of food a month! Even if uneaten food gets composted, more than money goes to waste: so do the resources that went…
Switch to Green Cleaning Products
My kitten was making a funny sound with his tongue. Knowing his habit of eating things with no resemblance to food, I hunted the apartment for something he might have eaten. A can of oven cleaner on the top shelf…
Clean Out Your Medicine Cabinet Safely
Did you know that four of five heroin addicts started out with abuse of prescription opiates? Or that home medicines are a leading cause of preventable poisoning for children under age six? Make sure your children don’t get in to…
Choose Your Shopping “Rules” to Make Purchases Simpler
What you bring into your house determines what waste your home will produce and contributes to your household’s environmental footprint. Many of us try to shop conscientiously, considering environmental impacts like climate emissions, water use, pollution, and waste in our…
Do a Home Energy Inventory to Get Rid of Energy Sucks
Your house might be wasting energy without you knowing it. Complete a quick home energy inventory to hunt down the easy fixes. 1. Complete a Home Energy Inventory Look for Energy Wasters Walk through each room of your house to…
One Change to Waste Less Food: Reorganize Your Refrigerator
When our food goes bad before we can eat it, we’re wasting more than money – we’re wasting the water that went into growing the food and the energy that went into transporting it. You’re not alone if you’ve had…
Make Recycling Convenient with a Home Recycling Inventory and Outbox
We spend so much time at home, it’s easy to stop noticing what’s really there and get used to the way we have things set up. Trash and recycling can especially become invisible, something we think about only when we…