As promised, here is the latest installment of Going Green in the Kitchen. Use the dishwasher – this surprises most people, but a fully loaded (but not overloaded) dishwasher uses less water and energy than washing and rinsing by hand. For even more eco benefits, use the eco-cycle (sometimes called the energy saver cycle), and…
Going Green in the Kitchen – food
As promised, here is the second installment of Going Green in the Kitchen. Today, I will talk about food – the food we eat, how we prepare it and how we buy it. The food we eat We all know to eat to do the best thing for our bodies and most often, doing the…
Going Green In the Kitchen – waste free lunches
I’ve already spoken about going paperless in the kitchen so today I want to talk about making our children’s lunches waste-free. Stephen started kindy this year and while it is only 2 half days a week, we still have to provide a packed lunch. Thinking back to my own childhood, and looking at my niece’s…
Going Green in the Kitchen – paperless kitchen
A while ago (OK, ages ago!) I wrote a post on greening your laundry, and promised to follow up with other areas. So today, finally, is the first installment of Going Green in the Kitchen – moving towards a paperless kitchen. In my opinion, going paperless in the kitchen is one of the most important…
Using too much laundry detergent?
A while ago, I wrote about ways to be greener in the laundry, and one of my tips was to use 1/2 as much detergent as recommended on the label. So I was really interested when I read this article in the Wall Street Journal about the fact that the majority of Americans are actually…
