We’ve been composting here at the World Headquarters of Living Under My Roof. We’re about 6 weeks into the project. So far, we’ve got lots of stuff piling up in the black plastic composter (is the composter leaching chemicals into my compost that will be out into the garden that grows our veggies?!).
Current challenges are:
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Luckily, I don’t get a lot of junk snail mail. I’ve moved a lot and don’t sign up for a lot of lists, I don’t make political contributions and I don’t get catalogs. (Junk EMAIL, now that’s a different story.) So for now, my mailbox is pretty empty. And that’s a good thing.
But if [...]
When I was little, no one had air conditioning. And we survived. I can remember my mum telling us to run our wrists under cold cold water to cool ourselves down. Yesterday I told my daughter to do the same. Here are more advice on how to cool yourself without air conditioning - check out [...]
National Geographic and the international polling firm GlobeScan have just conducted a study measuring and monitoring consumer progress toward environmentally sustainable consumption in 14 countries around the world. Unlike other measures, Greendex is the first to rank the performance of individual consumers, rather than countries as a whole.
The results? America placed LAST. And Canada [...]