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Make a Soap Saver: neat, clean bar soap with no waste!

Photographs by Nicholas Efran This is a handy tip I learned as a Girl Scout that I still use in my home today.  It’s a great project for Girl Scouts (or any group of kids) as a follow-up to soap...

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Go Green in 2017: How to Clean

Photographs by Nicholas Efran. It’s time for New Year’s resolutions!  There are many ways you could change your habits to reduce your environmental impact.  One change you could make is replacing...

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Advanced Task Juggling with Gamification

This is a guest post by Ben Stallings (Becca’s brother), a Web developer and permaculture designer in Emporia, Kansas. “In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun, and...

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Hand Soap of the Zygons [method ocean plastic soap review]

Earthlings have been discarding too much plastic too irresponsibly for the past five decades, and a lot of it has ended up in our oceans.  Plastic never goes away.  It just swirls around, breaking into...

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Top 17 Articles of 2017

This isn’t really a blog.  It’s a constantly expanding reference book.  Most years, the most popular articles are more than a year old--they've had more time for other sites to link to them. I've made...

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Would decluttering save you from buying a new appliance?

Life here on Earth presents an astonishing array of abundance.  There's so much stuff that we can gather to fulfill not only our basic needs but also our more frivolous desires and, perhaps, our need...

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How to get slug slime out of car upholstery

Let it dry and scrape it off with a used-up gift-card. Simple! Much simpler than I feared.

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How to Get Preschoolers to Help with Housework

There are various methods for teaching a child how to do household tasks and motivating her to be involved in the daily work of maintaining the family home. One that's worked well for me is this: Show...

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Great green goods from Grove Collaborative!

Grove Collaborative continues to expand its range of environmentally friendly cleaning products, including some items now available at Target stores. After 20+ years' experience going greener, here are...

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Plastic-Free Product Reviews

Peach deodorant. Tom's of Maine deodorant. Blueland foaming hand soap. Blueland dishwasher detergent. Blueland dishwashing powder. Seventh Generation toilet bowl cleaner.

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