Please, watch this video on YouTube – the whole thing – before you leave this site. It’s too important to miss.

Now there’s even more:
Logical Response
What do YOU think?
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So did the benefits add up? Was all the effort of line drying worth it?

Meh.

First of all, after being ill last week and laundry piling up despite my new laundry schedule, I cheated.

Yes, O Internet, I cheated. I so cheated!

As I’m sitting to write this post, I am surrounded by drying clothing hanging from dining room chairs, my desk, and flung on the back of couch. There are even some hanging from hangers in the closet and the bathroom. From THREE DAYS AGO.
The weekends are usually the craziest days at the GYA household, so instead of being put away when the usual, sane manner, they hung around the house as we rushed in and out of the apartment. However, once I’m finished with this post, it’s off to folding …

There is so much talk in the green community about ways to go green and save you money, but so few people actually talk about what it involves and if the action they are commending is doable for someone living in smaller living quarters. This is why I wanted to start a new series here at Green Your Apartment: our monthly “green experiment”.

From my blog to yours and my family to yours, Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We will be returning to our “regularly scheduled programming” come January 2nd.
Until then, check out our archives from the list below!
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Back in autumn, we discussed the importance of eating seasonally. Now that winter and its holidays are officially upon us, I wanted to share with you cheat sheet to seasonal fruits and veggies during these cold winter months. Let me tell you Internet, in doing my research, there were few quick and easy guides to winter eating!

When I first started really going green, I changed everything. Organic foods replaced conventionally grown. Baking soda and white vinegar replaced nearly every bottle of cleaning product in my arsenal. I started looking for second hand clothing stores and odd new uses for old items I had lying around.

But eating in season? That wasn’t something that crossed my mind. In fact, I realized I did not even know when most fruits and vegetables came into season! Yes, that is how out-of-touch with our world we city-dwellers and suburbanites have become.

So often when I first tell someone about this blog, people want to know the most important and/or easiest thing they can do to live “greener”. I smile and tell them it is so much easier than you think: walk, bike, or skate – don’t drive.

It not only makes sense but has a ring of poetic justice to it too: maybe the American dream is what is indeed killing America.

Suburbia. Suburban sprawl. The Suburban?

Once upon an early-90s jingle, kids were taught to “Reduce, reuse, recycle and don’t pollute!” by a singing cartoon. It was cute and kind of clever, but it may not have quite hit the message home. What that catchy tune didn’t explain was the importance of doing things in that order – reduce, reuse and then recycle.

But why that order?

Today, I’m spending my time cooing at my contribution to the next generation.
How about you?
You can join Myspace’s black out, watch Oprah get gorgeously green or get political and call your representative to urge them to enact stricter environmental changes. Just make sure you do something today to honor the planet that supports your life.
Happy Earth Day!