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Save the planet, bring your own water

Posted in Eco-Friendly, Environment, Plastic, Water conservation on February 16, 2011 | 3 Comments »

Friend and follower, Sylvia van Bruggen from The Netherlands, joins us again to guest blog. This time she’s mad as hell about the water we’re drinking. More from us on this subject later this week. It isn’t often that things make me mad. But talk to me about bottled water and you get me mad. [...]

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Week 50: Greening toward 2011

Posted in Buy Local, carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Local Food, Organic Food, Plastic, Water conservation, tagged , , , , on December 31, 2010 | 4 Comments »

Garbage day on our farm in South Africa doesn’t mean rolling a big green garbage bin out to the front lawn for pick-up. It means, hauling the bag(s) into the back of the car and driving 40 minutes on mostly country roads to our dump. This is what we saw during Week 50. I believe [...]

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Week 20: Retrospective

Posted in Children - Chronically Ill, click-to-donate, Eco-Friendly, Education, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Homeless, Micro-financing, Random Acts of Kindness, Search-to-donate, Water conservation on May 19, 2010 | 2 Comments »

I admit it. There have been times when we’ve said, “what have we gotten ourselves into?!!” “Life Happens,” and not always at moments when it’s convenient. Twice during the first 20 weeks we’ve had to scale back our expectations due to illness, household “disaster” or just plain fatigue. But, we’re proud to say that we [...]

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Week 11: Water Conservation Wrap-up

Posted in Water conservation, tagged , , , , on March 22, 2010 | 1 Comment »

Allow us a smidgen of smugness this week. We’re proud to report that we fared fairly well on the list of ways to conserve water in the household. Since Nils grew up sailing, water conservation is second nature. On a boat, clean water is valued like gold. On my side, I was basically a thoughtless [...]

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Week 11: Our Most Precious Resource – Water

Posted in Eco-Friendly, Environment, Water conservation, tagged on March 15, 2010 | 1 Comment »

This week’s Impact Effort is inspired by friend and follower, Deirdre, who submitted lots of tips and tricks a few weeks ago for conserving water. We’ve taken many of her suggestions, added those of others and thought up a few of our own. Some of these we already have as a part of our life, [...]

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February MIC: Winner and Wrap-Up

Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Energy-Efficiency, Environment, Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), Water conservation, tagged , , , on March 8, 2010 | 2 Comments »

We were ecstatic over the response we got to February’s Monthly Impact Challenge, “Green Our Home.” As you’ll see below, so many friends and followers submitted good and excellent ideas for making day-to-day life greener and more eco-friendly. We thank all those who participated. But, there was one person who gave the most tips that [...]

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