If you have been following along, you will know that I have been having troubles with my dishwasher. The food residue is only mostly gone and there are hard water and detergent stains all over the place. But when you look at ways to be efficient with water in your home using the dishwasher is [...]
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The New York Times hit on a hot spot for me this week when they ran a piece on the new phosphate-free dishwashing detergents. Manufacturers of at home use automatic dishwashing detergent (ADD, according to the American Cleaning Institute) released virtually phosphate free detergents (<.5%) starting in July of this year. This was in part [...] Pumpkin has been resisting his naps of late. He rests peacefully in his crib playing his music box or a lovey for 15 minutes or so then the plaintive crying starts. Slow and low moving to more aggravated and loud. Then the final death wails before succumbing to sleep. This is how things were in [...] Here I am on day four of my two week stay at the friendly Hilton. In my last post I embarked on a mini-project looking at how green and granola those conservation/recycling/green hotel programs are. It is hard to NOT think about being granola when on vaca/away for work every hotel asks you to conserve [...] Warning: today’s post is a rant on the corporate takeover of “freshness.” Such a great concept – very granola really. Imagine crisp autumn breezes, straight from the dryer linens, harvested veggies. This is what I want the connotation of fresh to be! But, alas, “fresh” and “freshness” have been totally taken over by marketers. As [...] |
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