I recently read this great article on MSN.com (of all places!) regarding the new way to calculate a vehicle’s gasoline efficiency – not the Miles Per Gallon we’re all accustomed to but Miles Per Dollar. Writer Lawrence Ulrich admits that this fluctuates more than mpg since the price of a gallon of gasoline changes daily, but perhaps it would be [...]

Among the Green Community, there are great proponents of organic, fair-trade, locally grown produce. But the reality is not everyone can afford to pay the organic prices at the large-chain grocery markets, not to mention the fair-trade mark-ups. First let’s set up the order of importance in purchasing these items. Local always surpasses organic -there’s less tax on the environment [...]

Welcome to the third “Tips for Green Living” carnival. Looks like our little get-together is causing quite a stir! Let’s start with a celebration of what you are doing – reading! Rita Toews presents Read an ebook week 2008 posted at Life’s quite a ride. Looks like transportation has been on everyone’s mind lately. Vihar Sheth presents some new driving [...]

A few weeks ago I did a post on ditching both paper and plastic bags to go reusable to which Matty, from Green Eggs & Planet, left this comment: Excellent post — I too am trying as hard as possible to get into the comprehensive habit of ALWAYS having a bag with me. Maybe a post about how to establish [...]

As I said yesterday, I am currently pregnant with our first child, just at 8 months along. With all of this baby mania though, I haven’t forgotten about my dedication to the environment. In fact, I kind of freaked my Mom out. When I explained that yes, I would be using cloth diapers, I thought she was going to pass [...]

Welcome to the second edition of the new bi-monthly “Tips for Green Living” Carnival! Why go green at all? Jacob presents Ecological capitalism and consumer capitalism posted at Early Retirement Extreme, a post explaining why he thinks the world looks as it does, why he went green, and why others should go green as well. Great job, Jacob! Let me [...]