I am happy to announce that the reason this blog has been on hiatus is finally out of utero! Welcome Miriam Rose, my daughter, at MercurialScribe.com!
Due to my current maternity situation, I will be accepting guest posts from you! So if you have any posts you’d like to contribute in the Green Your Apartment style, please submit them to greenyourapartment@gmail.com. Thanks for the idea, MamaBird!
Welcome to the third “Tips for Green Living” carnival on this happy St. Patrick’s Day! Green for green! I’m amazed at how many wonderful submissions there were this time around. Let’s start with something currently near and dear to my heart – and my baby’s bum! Autumn Beck presents How To Make A Fitted Cloth Diaper posted at All About [...]
Marie, the writer of Green Your Apartment, was hospitalized last Thursday and was just released last night on bedrest due to pregnancy complications. Both mother and baby are doing well but need to rest and thus will not be posting anything until next week at the earliest. However, the blog carnival scheduled for this past Monday (March 10th) will be [...]
In this series, “Back to Basics”, I am covering the essentials of “going green” by focusing on the basic principles of green living. First in the series was Reduce, the second was Reuse, and today we will cover Recycle. The purpose of recycling is similar to reusing, except that recycling is usually done to create new products of old ones [...]
In this series, “Back to Basics”, I am covering the essentials of “going green” by focusing on the basic principles of green living. First in the series was Reduce and today we will cover Reuse, or as I like to call it, repurposing! The very point of reusing items to take a once useful item and use it again to [...]
As I was planning this post I came across an article about Starbucks’ recent national break to re-educate their baristas with the intricacies of espresso and cappaccino making (Google “Starbucks 3 hour break to find various articles on the subject). As I read over that particular article it kept occurring to me how often people confuse their message and purpose [...]
From their website: It started with a question: How can we inspire people to take action on climate change? The answer: Ask the people of Sydney to turn off their lights for one hour. On 31 March 2007, 2.2 million people and 2100 Sydney businesses turned off their lights for one hour – Earth Hour. This massive collective effort reduced [...]
