Do you have ice dams on your house? While the long term solution to preventing ice dams is proper air-sealing and insulation under your roof, people with ice dams want to know what to do now, not next spring. A good way to deal with them in the middle of winter is using discarded pantyhose filled […]
How Do You Use Less?
Posted on March 30, 2014 Written by 10 Comments
I work with our city’s recycling program and sometimes I talk with the waste disposal company that services our city. They keep telling us that the goal is not really to get our residents to recycle more, but rather to use, and throw away, less. It is fascinating that this comes from a company whose […]
Environmental Books for Kids
Posted on January 24, 2014 Written by 3 Comments
I’m speaking tomorrow at one of our local elementary schools about recycling. I decided that it might be nice to have some follow up books to recommend to the teachers, so I stopped by our local library and asked about some recycling books for children. She recommended some books that I’ve been reading to my […]
Getting Rid of Ice Dams
Posted on January 7, 2013 Written by 10 Comments
Ice dams are those sheets of ice and snow that form at the edge of your roof. They often look beautiful and result and in long, lovely icicles hanging from your eaves. I love looking at them and as a child I loved breaking icicles off our roof and sucking on them. They were nature’s […]
Green Gift Wrap Ideas
Posted on December 24, 2012 Written by 1 Comment
Happy Holidays from our family to yours. As we have approached Christmas and our pending reveal of the new look and name of our blog we have been writing less and preparing more and spending more time with our children. I hope that all of you, our readers, are spending this time with your families and […]
Greening Halloween: Reuse & Crafty Modifications
Posted on October 29, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
Halloween Costumes – New, reused and modified! With our busy lives, coming up with Halloween costumes for three kids is a struggle. We have to balance the time needed to make something from scratch, the environmental and budget costs of buying commercial costumes and most importantly what the kids want to be for Halloween. I […]
Day Camps Go Green! Vote for our Boys & Girls Club Camp!
Posted on July 30, 2012 Written by Leave a Comment
This summer I’ve noticed a growing trend with day camps in our area – they’re spending more time teaching kids about the environment and recycling. It’s a natural trend, when you’re outside, learn about things outside, but it seems to be more deliberate recently, which I love. The Mayor cheering for the Green Racers This […]
Reusable Dishes or Disposable?
Posted on May 29, 2012 Written by 4 Comments
Going camping? Should you take paper plates and cups and plastic silverware, or should buy special camping dishes and silverware? Which is more green? What is the right thing to do? Like most things that are “green” the answer is, it depends. Much of this discussion is about camping, however, many of these reasons hold […]
Greening Birthday Parties – Reusable Tableware
Posted on April 30, 2012 Written by 3 Comments
People ask us about making parties and events greener. A while back we wrote about how you can choose your location to be green and what sort of invitations are greenest. Another thing to do is use reusable tableware. I hear your objections: “But I don’t have that much reusable stuff! It would cost a fortune!” […]
Green Game Plan For Your Super Bowl Party
Posted on January 29, 2012 Written by 14 Comments
As a huge Patriots fan, I’m so psyched for Superbowl XLVI and it is even better because the Patriots are playing the Giants, my in-laws’ team to whom the Patriots lost to in Superbowl XLII. Earlier this week, the NFL and the Indianapolis Hosts took action to make Super Bowl XLVI the greenest yet buy […]
