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Please Help My Family Win a Nissan Leaf! 17 Mar 2011 | 04:56 am
My husband requested that I temporarily come out of retirement to ask any lingering subscribers to the Conscious Shopper to vote for us to win a Nissan Leaf. We were able to test drive one a few weeks...
You've probably figured it out by now... 18 Jul 2010 | 01:55 am
I've decided to quit posting at The Conscious Shopper. It has been a great two years, but it's time to move on. Thank you to everyone who commented on my last post, and especially thanks for your sup...
Challengicious Monday: Use Public Transportation 18 Jul 2010 | 01:31 am
Another late challenge in the Travel Sustainably series: Use Public Transportation To complete this challenge, you can... BABY STEPS Go for a ride. Get your transit feet wet by figuring out an eas...
Challengicious Monday: Keep Up with Your Car Maintenance 9 Jul 2010 | 01:17 pm
This week's very late travel-related challenge is: Keep Up with Your Car Maintenance To complete this challenge, you can... BABY STEPS Keep your tires properly inflated. Every couple of weeks, use...
Challengicious Monday: Bike 28 Jun 2010 | 04:15 pm
Mondays are challengicious at The Conscious Shopper. This week's travel-related challenge is: Bike BABY STEPS Dig out your old bike and take it for a spin. Work up your biking skills by riding in y...
Challengicious Monday: Walk 21 Jun 2010 | 04:15 pm
Mondays are challengicious at The Conscious Shopper. This week's travel-related challenge is: Walk BABY STEPS Check Walk Score to find out the walkability of your neighborhood. Start small and scop...
Travel Sustainably 20 Jun 2010 | 04:15 pm
We've Trimmed Our Waste Lines, Energized, and Watered Down, and now it's time to... Travel Sustainably We'll be changing our transportation habits with the following weekly challenges: Walk Bike ...
What Happened to My Header Image (and why I'm not sure if I'm cut out for this blogging business) 19 Jun 2010 | 01:29 am
On Wednesday night, I had trouble falling asleep, and once sleep finally came, I had restless dreams, and once the dreams finally left me in peace, my Early Bird children began their morning bickering...
My Reusable Life 17 Jun 2010 | 04:15 pm
Have you ever heard the argument, "You would have to go through X-amount of styrofoam cups to equal the environmental impact of ONE mug, so there's nothing wrong with using styrofoam cups." (Or variat...
CSA: Community Supported...Artists? 17 Jun 2010 | 05:49 am
My post today at the Green Phone Booth veers a little away from green living to talk about one way to help musicians make an album without a major record label: Recently I came across one more way fo...