Husband and I had a pile of Mini Babybel Cheese wax wrappers on our kitchen counter. We got them as free samples at a local event. Peo...

I gave up trying to get sun tan years ago because my pale faced Scandinavian skin makes me burn like a vampire in the sun. Really. I got...

July’s One Small Green Change is one place I thought I’d never go – switching to a toilet paper made from recycled fiber. Now before you get...

 The sky went dark as if turning off a light switch. The rains came suddenly. BOOISH! The thunder. CAR-RACK! The lights went out. “W...

I’ve been making one small environmentally friendly change each month from January to Earth Day as part of the One Small Green Change Challe...

As part of my Spring cleaning I decided to use all those little sample and travel bottles of toiletries that have been cluttering up my line...

My revamped chairs look great on my front porch. Festive! The table sitting next to them did not. Beat up and boring

I have a bunch of telephone books lying around the house. I don’t know how this happens - we don’t have a land line! We’re a cell phone as h...

Husband and I had a Teflon coated griddle an old roommate left behind after moving out. Of course using what you have, especially if it is s...

Welcome Weather Channel viewers! This morning I did another 58 Degree Challenge interview on The Weather Channel . I talked about how my fa...

Welcome Columbus Dispatch readers! Today The Columbus Dispatch wrote an article about me "Energy Audit First Step to Cutting Utility Bi...

Unlike some areas of the United States, my local gas and electric companies do not offer free home energy audits to their customers. After m...

As an experiment, I saved all my plastic trash for one week and posted it Condo Blues and later on Fake Plastic Fish: Show Us Your (Plastic)...

I don’t try to avoid plastic like my friend and fellow Green Carnival Mom Fake Plastic Fish , but I do try to limit the amount I use. I try...

Last March I started my own personal 20% Energy Reduction Challenge . My goal was to reduce the amount of electricity in my 1500 square foo...

One of my favorite go to snacks is popcorn. I like to make my popcorn old school – in a pot on the stove. It’s less wasteful than microwave ...

It’s the last month of my 2007 20% Home Utility Reduction Challenge! Let’s see how I did at reducing my home's electric and natural ga...

My goal is to lower my home’s natural gas and electricity use by 20% in 2008. I also want to  reduce my utilities as inexpensively as p...

I am on a mission to seek out and destroy air leaks in The Condo so I can save money on my heating and cooling bills this year. According to...

Husband, Blitzkrieg, and I took off for an 8-hour road trip from Ohio to a tiny mountain town in Northern Georgia. When we travel with our d...