What a great Autumn week. We received our first CSA basket that will last us two weeks until the next delivery. Our basket was full of yummy veggies and fruit which were mostly locally sourced. I made some great pumpkin fries and roasted up the seeds. I don't know why I never had roasted pumpkin ... Read More about Project Green Foot: Week 7
Greening your coffee drinking experience
A lot of coffee cups are used and thrown away every single year. It was estimated, that in 2006 alone 16 million disposable coffee cups were used in the U.S. Now add the amount of natural resources and waste used to manufacture the coffee cups and the environment impact is significant. So, why not ... Read More about Greening your coffee drinking experience
How to Clean Up a Broken CFL Bulb
If you are like most people, you probably have a few of those spirally compact fluorescent lights throughout your home. I know I do. When I first bought mine, I was concerned with the mercury inside them, what effects the mercury could have on me and if in fact, they could be recycled. Luckily ... Read More about How to Clean Up a Broken CFL Bulb
Project Green Foot: Week 6
We were really excited when we found a co-op here in Fort Worth where we could receive fruits and veggies. However, we just as quickly got very disappointed with the co-op basket. All the veggies and fruit are organic, but they are the same produce that we can just as easily buy at the grocery store ... Read More about Project Green Foot: Week 6
Project Green Foot: Week 5
We are finally settled into our apartment in Fort Worth, Texas where we will call home for the next 6 months. I think this week went rather well. We did need to buy a few things like socket protectors (little E won’t stop putting her fingers in the sockets), energy efficient light bulbs and plumbers ... Read More about Project Green Foot: Week 5
Greenercising
Did you know that 0.75 kilowatt-hours of energy is used during 30 minutes on the treadmill?Did you know you could light a Christmas tree for 6 hours with 0.75 kilowatts-hours?Did you know that 2 pounds of CO2 is given off during the 30 minute workout on the treadmill?I never really put ... Read More about Greenercising
One Day and Step at a Time
I think back to where we were one year ago- sitting in the birthing center holding our sweet little E!Our world changed one year ago today. We no longer were just looking out for ourselves anymore; we had to think about someone else now.Reading food and toy labels became second nature as well as ... Read More about One Day and Step at a Time
Project Green Foot: Week 4
Boy was I ever right about having both a crazy and hectic week! I feel like I did not stop from Wednesday to Sunday.I think we did fairly well considering we were not at home and had to be creative with our food purchases while traveling. I especially had to be creative with all the “gifts” I was ... Read More about Project Green Foot: Week 4
Project Green Foot: Week 3
What a crazy week, and the fun has only begun. Next week is going to be even more hectic. Oh boy!I am off to my very first blogging conference in Toronto, Ontario and J.P is driving to Dallas/Forth, Texas. So lets just say, we are literally going to be all over the map! It will be interesting to ... Read More about Project Green Foot: Week 3
Party Green Style
Tomorrow, we celebrate “We are moving to Texas for 7 months approximately and it so happens to be little E’s first birthday!” I am not a big birthday party celebrating kinda gal, but for J.P it was important to celebrate in some form. Who am I to argue with that.Of course, we had to come up ... Read More about Party Green Style