Hybrid Rasta Mama: Did You Know That You Can Compost Latex Condoms? →
Oh, my gosh, how did I not know this? And to think we’ve been wasting them all these years!
Oh, my gosh, how did I not know this? And to think we’ve been wasting them all these years!
Love to upcycle or want to start? Lots of ways to reuse objects to make useful new items!
How to green up even your cloth diaper purchasing and washing!
It’s easy to repurpose baby blankets into useful diaper liners and avoid having to pay money for these things. Here’s an idea for fleece ones (which help keep the baby dry and aid in easy poop disposal), and The Artful Mama has a tutorial for cotton ones.
Download Green America’s Chocolate Scorecard PDF & use it to help shop for fair-trade Halloween candy! Get child labor out of your chocolates.
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I love these little experiments, like Cleaning the Shower Head With a Bag of Vinegar. This one is one I totally do and totally don’t want to try. I do because, how funny if marshmallows magically make a sore throat disappear! And I don’t, because who wants to be sick? Anyway, I’ll have to remember this for next time! Let me know if it works for you.
In this low-spend month, I’ve been so glad to have my DivaCup and cloth stash for my period so I don’t have to worry about buying menstrual products. If you want to make the switch to cloth but want or need to make your own pads, this pattern looks like a good one that would be fairly simple and effective and could be made with materials you likely already have.
My first couple years of gardening, I couldn’t figure out why anyone ever talked about having too much to harvest. Now that my garden is finding its stride, I’m realizing: There’s no way our families can eat all this produce!
Shannon of Pineapples & Artichokes found me this list of resources to help find a place to donate extra garden harvests. I used AmpleHarvest.org (just input a ZIP code) to discover that the food bank nearest me accepts donations of produce. I wrote the director and discovered I can bring over my tons o’ garlic and greens next Wednesday morning.
I like the idea of making natural hair products, though I’ve had the same experience as this reviewer: They’re a little less convenient and a lot COLDER since they have to be refrigerated. Now that we have neighbors with floor-to-ceiling windows next door abutting ours, I’m a little more hesitant to run downstairs in the buff to get my natural gel out of the fridge.
THAT SAID, this recipe seems like one of the easiest hair gels I’ve ever seen (gelatin + hot water), and I bet you could fancy it up if you wanted to experiment (essential oils? would that make it not set?).
FURTHERMORE (heh heh heh), I love the idea of this blog in general. Someone doing green experiments so we don’t have to! It’s a blogger after my own heart. (Hey, I’m still sticking with family cloth!)
Hee hee hee. How did you rate? I’ve got 9 out of 12 covered. I might just be a hippie.
