By now, I hope that most stores have restocked their toilet paper and you have been able to purchase a reasonable amount of TP. You’ve probably also seen a number of funny meme with TP alternatives like leaves or 3 sea shells (share your favorite TP memes in the comments below). Before you stockpile a […]
Movie Review of Rob Stewart’s Revolution
Posted on June 16, 2015 Written by Leave a Comment
I was asked to review the feature length documentary Revolution by Rob Stewart. The movie takes you on a journey under the water and around the world to see the impacts of climate change and the damage that we are doing to our planet. The videography and imagery underwater is breath taking. The movie gets […]
Turn down your water heater to save energy
Posted on February 4, 2015 Written by 4 Comments
Many water homes have their water heaters turned up too high. Many health codes used to call for hotter temperatures for home water, to ensure that dishes and clothes got clean enough. However, science has taught us that in most cases, it is the act of rubbing the items, the agitation, that causes things to […]
Is Your Body Wash Killing Fish?
Posted on January 19, 2015 Written by 1 Comment
Is your shampoo, body wash, or toothpaste killing fish? Not with some crazy new chemical, but something very simple: tiny microbeads of plastic. At some point the companies that make personal care products realized that they could put tiny microbeads of plastic in products like shampoo and body wash to exfoliate or lift dirt away. Previously […]
Review of Eco-Renovation Strategies Book
Posted on January 16, 2015 Written by 1 Comment
We were contacted by Self-Counsel Press and asked if we would review some or all of the books in their new Green Series. We are always interested in finding good books that we can refer people to, so we agreed to review them if they sent us copies of the books and a set of […]
Troubleshooting Modern Appliances
Posted on December 12, 2013 Written by 1 Comment
This has not been a good year for us with major appliances. During the summer our refrigerator died and the weekend before Thanksgiving, our dishwasher died a long, drawn-out death. We firmly believe in the FOUR R’s – Reduce, Reuse, Recycle and Repair. Therefore, before we decided to throw in the towel on either appliance, […]
Save Energy By Saving Water With EPA’s WaterSense
Posted on November 25, 2013 Written by 4 Comments
Recently the EPA contacted us and asked if we would share their “Shower Better” campaign. Saving water is something that we believe in. Saving water has a direct effect on the environment and secondary effects as well. Where we live, it is rare to have droughts, but a lot of energy is used to pump […]
Save Water with Every Flush – American Standard Champion 4 Max Review
Posted on November 18, 2013 Written by 8 Comments
In honor of World Toilet Day on November 19, 2013, we replaced one of our toilets with a WaterSense 1.28 gallon per flush American Standard Champion 4 Max and could not be happier. Alicia says that she never before thought she would have an actual opinion on a toilet beyond the shape and height of […]
Flush for Good Giveaway Winners
Posted on November 10, 2013 Written by 1 Comment
Thanks to American Standard and their Flush for Good Program, we were able to offer two of our readers each a $200 gift card to Home Depot or Lowe’s. American Standard is raising awareness about the problems lack of modern sanitation cause around the world. American Standard has developed a device for locations with drop […]
Flush for Good Giveaway – $200 Home Depot or Lowe’s Gift Cards
Posted on October 14, 2013 Written by 116 Comments
In honor of World Toilet Day and their Flush for Good Campaign, American Standard is encouraging people around the world to learn more about saving water. To help promote it, they are giving 2 of our readers each a $200 gift card to Home Depot or Lowe’s. There’s no restrictions on how you use the card, […]
