Articles tagged “Less Is More”

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                 

Did You Know?: Teeth Brushing By Team Planet Green IN Food & Health Sep 24 2008 Teeth, sometimes called hard, bitey mouth rocks, need to be cleaned three times a day due to the fact that our mouths often suffer from foodfullness at mealtimes. Consuming food can coat choppers with a layer of cuisine-debris, and the nutritional mess must be brushed away before a cavity is formed. + READ MORE

Build a Smaller, Greener Home By Josh Peterson IN Home & Garden Sep 15 2008 For the longest time, bigger houses were considered better houses. This makes sense. In the olden days, the days before the Industrial Revolution, people would marry very young and have copious amounts of children. These children were expected to help out the family farm. Grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins may have also lived and worked on that farm. A large family required a large house. Even in cities families would clump up and survive or fail as a whole. It may have been a wonderful, loving thing that we have lost, but even still, I'm glad I don?t live with my entire family. + READ MORE

Downsize for Mother Earth in 3 Steps By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Sep 11 2008 We all think about downsizing when the kids leave the house and we no longer need all the space in our family homes. But what about downsizing for Mother Earth? Downsizing your life isn't just easier on the planet; it's easier on your wallet. Why not think about steps that you can take to downsize your life? + READ MORE

Did You Know?: Showers By Team Planet Green IN Home & Garden Sep 4 2008 Water seems as if it is everywhere: In our bathtubs, in our balloons, in our oceans and in our jars labeled WATER. Even our bodies are sixty percent water. When a person drinks a glass of water, they are, in fact, committing sixty percent cannibalism. Yes. Water is a seemingly ubiquitous substance. + READ MORE

Did You Know?: Wasted Office Paper Wall By Josh Peterson IN Work & Connect Aug 28 2008 Did you know that you could build a twelve-foot high wall from New York to Los Angeles using the paper consumed in a year? Did you know that a wall like that would be very hard to maintain? Did you know that wind, rain and vandals would destroy that wall in less than a month? Did you know that the wall is only hypothetical and used to illustrate the severity of our paper wastage? Did you know that you can do something about that hypothetical wall? + READ MORE

Celebrate National Downshifting Week By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Jul 7 2008 Today marks the start of National Downshifting Week here in the U.S. It's a week-long celebration of addition through subtraction; taking a little more time and expending a little less effort, in an attempt to enjoy some of the finer, slower things in life. And it's a great way to further incorporate some green habits into your life. + READ MORE

Embrace Flat-Pack as Part of Your Green Lifestyle By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden May 12 2008 There are a few design ideas out there that are just green from the start; through smart materials use, efficient resource allocation and other design philosophies, their mere existence makes them a greener choice than conventional alternatives. Learn how flat pack fits that bill + READ MORE

What IS a Hippie? By Team Planet Green IN Travel & Outdoors May 5 2008 In the 1960s, a group of laid-back young people called beatniks and hipsters migrated to San Francisco, creating their own community of individuals who disliked weapons, war, violence, and the generally conservative values of the era. Many hippies believed that enjoyment of and respect for nature was very important, consciously living natural lifestyles, eating healthy foods, and creating music that reflected these interests. + READ MORE

Green Your Wedding: Be a Cheapskate By Jasmin Malik Chua IN Home & Garden Feb 29 2008 My husband and I got hitched, several years ago, before we started living la vida verde, so think of this new matrimonially minded series as a laundry list of things we would have done if we had to do it all over again-trust me, we don't. No wedding party-I didn't think it was necessary and I really didn't want to... + READ MORE

Build Your Own Murphy Bed By Collin Dunn IN Home & Garden Feb 1 2008 If you're short on space, or just looking to make better use of your square footage, a Murphy bed is a great way to free up a little extra room: it's a regular bed, when you need it; when you don't, it neatly folds up and gets out of the way (this configuration is pictured above). From there, it's a matter of finding... + READ MORE

Go Minimalist By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Jan 16 2008 Hakuei House, Akira Sakamoto; Photo credit: Nacasa and Partners Mies van der Rohe said "less is more" (although Robert Browning said it first) to define the simplicity of his designs; we have adopted it as well to reflect a way of living where one consumes less stuff and needs less space to house it. Organize the... + READ MORE

Best of 2007: Live With Less By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Dec 28 2007 The single best thing one can do to have a smaller impact on this world is to simply consume less of it, yet most people think that they have to give something up.Reduce mailbox clutter-as well as the time it takes you to sift through all those unwanted solicitations-by signing up with Catalog Choice, a free online... + READ MORE

Use Your Staircase For Storage By Lloyd Alter IN Home & Garden Dec 6 2007 Earlier this year, an Australian design for a staircase with drawers was very popular on Web sites and in magazines, including a vigorous debate about the safety of such an idea, primarily about what would happen if someone left a drawer open. + READ MORE

Buy Fewer Toys By Team Planet Green IN Work & Connect Aug 20 2007 If you live in the U.S. and have a life experience similar to mine, you've probably spent at least a bit of time in a house or two where the children's toys have literally taken over the entire place. In the interests of full disclosure, and with a significant number of nephews, one niece, some cousins, and even a few... + READ MORE