Our Trash Can Gets on the Scale

May 14, 2009
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Last night (the evening before weekly trash pick-up), we weighed my family’s 32-gallon trash can (which, for the purposes of this blog, we’ve named Oscar). Using the bathroom scale, this weigh-in was by no means scientific. But as with all diets, it was imperative to have an approximate starting point — and to set a [...]

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Spring Cleaning: How to Give Just About Anything Away Without Really Trying

May 1, 2009
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Before I sift through my family’s 32-gallon trash can, I’d like to do a little spring cleaning and get rid of some of the other stuff sitting in my garage that has been accumulating over the past year.
Where as only a few years ago, I would have been challenged to find ways to get rid [...]

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Welcome to Green Eyed Mom: One Family’s Quest to Tread a Little Lighter

April 29, 2009

Hello and welcome to Green Eyed Mom, which will explore how my family is treading a lighter on the earth through two broad, but completely doable actions:
o Buying little to no new stuff
o Producing little to no trash
While I’m no scientist, I’m fairly confident that excessive consumption habits have a profound impact on our environment and global [...]

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