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Latex Paint Clean-up
A reader, Doug, sent us this question on how to clean paint brushes.
QUESTION: How should I clean latex paint out of brushes, rollers and trays? Is it better to rinse them off in the sink so the water goes to the treatment facility, or to rinse them off outdoors over the ground so the … Continue reading
How to Manage Aerosol Can Waste
Aerosol cans didn’t go away with the US ban on CFC propellants (due to ozone depleting properties) in the 1980s. Then and now, alternatives with lower ozone depleting potential have allowed the aerosol can to live on.
Aerosol containers are pressurized products that sometimes contain flammable or poisonous chemicals. And about 90 percent of them … Continue reading
Understanding egg carton labels
Unless you’ve got egg laying chickens clucking around your backyard, you’ve seen the dizzying selection of eggs at the supermarket. Cartons touting everything from “free range” to “vegetarian fed” to “no antibiotics”—up to a half dozen claims and labels that can lead to confusion instead of confident decisions about what it all means.
In this … Continue reading
Need a gift fast? Rejoice, reuse and re-gift this holiday!
Time’s almost up and you still have _____ (fill in the blank) people to shop for! OR do you? Do you really need/want to head “out there?” The last-minute holiday shopping rush is an ugly, spirit-killing scene. Parking wars, crowds, long lines, short fuses, crying toddlers that have been stuck in a shopping cart for … Continue reading
Green Glass giveaway!
Of all the repurposed products to come through my office in the past twelve years, few have impressed me more than the creations of The Green Glass Co. Green Glass salvages used and condemned beverage bottles and artfully transforms them into unique tumblers and stemware.
The company’s website states that their goblets have been chosen … Continue reading
Post-holiday Oven Clean Up
The out-of-town guests and Thanksgiving feast leftovers are long gone, but there is one thing from last weekend that hasn’t disappeared yet—the
greasy, splattered mess inside my oven! My poor oven paid a price for giving us one very crispy, brown-skinned bird and two juicy apple pies—among other things! Time to clean it out before the … Continue reading
Woman to Woman: The Best Way To Beat The Winter Cold Is With the Proper Under Garments
As we leave fall behind and descend into winter, those with leaky homes—or just thin blood—will soon be feeling a chill that seems miserably inescapable at times. The temptation to crank up the thermostat to a toasty 76 degrees will seem more like survival than self-indulgence, but wasting heating fuel or electricity and … Continue reading
Renting Your Stuff—A Good Idea That Hasn’t Taken Off
There are at least half a dozen websites online that help people rent things they need or post their own rentable items within their community…from the family dog to a staple gun…just about anything goes!
I have lots of things I’d like to rent (NOT my dog, however), so I checked out rentalic.com… Continue reading
“Organic” and “natural” cereals and granolas are not the same thing
Eat cereal? Cornucopia Institute’s new report examines the difference between “certified organic” and “all natural” cereals and granolas.
For more information… http://www.cornucopia.org/2011/10/natural-vs-organic-cereal/
