Today, I put a teabag in the compost, and thought about an old room-mate I once had. Before my eyes were really opened to the damage we're doing to our planet (i.e. before I saw An Inconvenient Truth - I'm only partly joking), before this, I lived for...

Today, I looked in our fridge and pantry, saw that there was no bread, almost no cheese or milk, no crackers (a Sadie staple) and no fruits or veggies, since we missed the farmer's market yesterday. And I admitted that it was time to make a real...

When I did my first initial attempt at saving water by turning the faucet off when I brush my teeth (while letting the shower warm up - seriously, who was I?), I started a daily tally on the sidebar of this blog counting how many minutes of water I...

This week has been the week of sickness in our house. Coughing, coughing and more coughing! Maybe it is a hacking-up-a-lung-induced lack of appetite (or maybe the diet we started as our new year's resolution), but there were a ton of leftovers in the...

Today's small thing comes 100% courtesy of my daughter. While we were getting ready for her bath we had started pouring the water and she said, "No more water, mommy." So we tried it out. There was about one-third of the water that we normally put...