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Being green: don’t let the produce go to waste!
One thing I have a major issue with is spring onions. Have you ever read a recipe that used spring onions and thought to yourself, ‘goddamnit, I’m NEVER going to use the whole bundle!’? I’m asking because that happens to me all the time. The recipes always only call for one or two of them, […]
Slacking on the ‘being green’
May 6, 2012
I feel like a bad environmentally aware citizen this week. For the past two weeks, actually. And it’s all because of socks. To be fair, I’ve had some of the socks in my drawer since before moving to Germany. And not just for a few months, either. But in the past two months, I’ve been […]
How to be Green Today: Buy a Soap Dish and Use it!
October 18, 2011
I got really pissed off at myself a few weeks ago. I was at the grocery store, and we needed more hand soap. There was a two-for-one special on my lovely Palmolive soap, so I grabbed it. Now I have one for the bathroom and one for the kitchen, but double the plastic consumption. I […]
How to be Green this morning: Furoshiki! (c/o Japan)
September 17, 2011
Leave it to Japan to keep on giving when it comes to being green. Also leave it to Japan to take one of my favorite things (paper) and remind us how eco-UNfriendly it is. This goes for plastic too, which I could do without on most days anyway. Except for today, when my friend Verena […]
German Lessons: what doesn’t go in the Bio trash can
July 24, 2011
There are officially FIVE trash receptacles in my apartment. There’s the Restmüll, for ‘normal trash’ that doesn’t go in any of the other trash cans. There’s the Glas, which is for glass items that don’t carry a pfand (payback/deposit) upon return symbol. There’s the Papier, for paper goods recycling. There’s the Gelbersacke, which is for […]
Being green today: ditch the shave gel
July 20, 2011
Here’s part 3 in a 3-part series on the shower, as promised:) In the previous two posts, we discussed turning off the water, and getting an awesome scrubber cloth to eliminate using an exfoliant. Today we’re also working on the R Reducing, by eliminating shave gel. Shave gel is something that, being an Italian girl, […]
Being Green today: in the shower
July 6, 2011
Today’s post is part two of three concerning being greener in the shower. The major goal is always to reduce, reuse and recycle… this one falls under ‘reduce’. I used to have kind of an issue, which I touched on in my last post: I always preferred to be warm in the shower, or in […]
Being green today: ditch the extra products for exfoliation
June 30, 2011
This is part one of a series of three green ideas I’ve come across (and used!!) for your bathroom. Once again, this one comes from Japan. I don’t know about you, but I love me some exfoliation. More so in the summer than in the winter, but I like to do it at least once […]
How to be green this week:)
June 8, 2011
This post should come as no surprise to anyone that’s ever taken an environmental science class. I say that because I’d imagine that ALL envirosci teachers are much like mine was: long-haired freaky people who like Phish or the Dead and to plant trees as class field trips. Amirite? So the one thing Jerry always […]
How to be Green, today (I stole this one from Japan)
May 24, 2011
I kind of mentioned it in my first Japan post, but it didn’t get the amazing amount of love that it deserves. I am talking, friends, about the novel idea of carrying around a little handkerchief with you. And by a ‘hanky’, I don’t mean some silken thing that you could tie around your neck. […]
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