Category: Art Craft Office

When is Wool Yarn not 100% Wool?

When it’s coated with plastic. Like the kind I have to hide from Arya because things like this happen…

Two years ago, in my post about plastic-free kitting, I mentioned I was knitting slippers out of Superwash wool from Lorna’s Laces. I assumed that Superwash meant the yarn had already been washed and wouldn’t [...]

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Year 3, Month 4 Results: 4.7 oz of Plastic Waste

This weekend in L.A., helping to launch the Plastic Pollution Coalition and joining in 350.org events, was amazing. I have so much to share with you! But first, something that is long overdue:  my monthly plastic tally for the month ending 10/15/09. The total plastic is down.  Way down. Although there [...]

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Announcing: School Binder Winners!

Well, I’m leaving for another vacation. This time to Hawaii for a week to help my parents pack up all their crap to move (collecting crap runs in the family.)
Before I go, I want to announce the winners of the school binder give-away:
Sustainable Group has been kind enough to offer 3 sets of Back [...]

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Beth’s Big Back to School Binder Debate & Give-Away

10/13/09 Disclosure: As of today, I have become a Sustainable Group affiliate, which means that I receive a small percentage of sales of ReBinder products purchased through this web site.
08/13/09 Update: The give-away is over, but the debate continues. Feel free to voice your opinion in the comments. Find out who won [...]

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Help! I’m buried under paper and I can’t get up!

So here’s the deal. I promised to write a post on BlogHer.com about plastic-free organizing tips next week. But I have no business writing any such thing. Just take a look at my desk:
I’ve been trying to organize my office space ever since we moved here in 2005, and it’s just not [...]

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Year 2, Week 42 Results: .05 oz of plastic waste

It was a pretty great week, plastickly speaking. But for some plastic envelope windows, I’d have had almost none. And speaking of envelope windows, various readers have suggested that they are made from glassine and not really plastic. The full answer that while some envelope windows are indeed made from glassine (a [...]

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Beth Geeks Out: Reformatting hard drives and installing Windows Upgrades

I’m tired. I was up very late last night doing a job I love: working on the computers at my office. And as an added bonus, I was doing something great for the environment and saving plastic.
We had five old computers running Windows 2000. We bought a new Filemaker Pro upgrade [...]

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Year 2, Week 13 Results: 2.9 oz of plastic waste. Junk mail mad house.

I give up. You’ll see why below…
Plastic items used this week but purchased before the plastic project began:

1 broken spray nozzle. Lesson learned: do not add ground cinnamon (or any other ground spice, probably) to a solution you plan to spray from a plastic bottle. The cinnamon clogs up the works. [...]

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E+Co pencils not so eco, actually.

I’ve become an honorary member of the Green Moms monthly blog carnival, which was great last month when the topic was global warming and I had to learn all about how waste is related to climate change. This month, however, the topic is “Back To School,” and I almost decided to bow out. [...]

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Dear Financial West Group,

August 22, 2008
Financial West Group4510 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd.Westlake Village, CA 91362
Re: Account #[omitted]
Dear FWG:
In January of this year, one of my New Year’s resolutions was to move my retirement savings into socially and environmentally responsible investments. To that end, I signed up with The Social Equity Group in Berkeley, CA to ensure [...]

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