4 easy ways tech eliminates unnecessary paper in your life
This is part of a sponsored series for Sprint Replenish who is helping us think about going green with our tech. I’m all about saving trees–hey! I like trees!–so I do my best to avoid overindulgent paper use. Sure, we recycle junk mail as scrap paper...
Custom iPhone cases for the eco-minded and the artsy-minded
Last week, I spent a little time with Jaime Derringer, mom-to-be, and genius behind the uber-popular design blog Design Milk. When she pulled out her custom, handmade iPhone case, I couldn’t stop fawning over it. (Seriously. It was a little embarrassing.) Her...
The new PBS website drives the Earth Day message home
If I want my kids to celebrate Earth Day every day, it helps if they understand the little issues that all add up to make big changes. In other words: Why I screech when they forget to recycle a piece of paper. (I admit it. I screech.) That’s why I applaud PBS...
5 picks you might have missed this week
The way we see it, why buy something in plain black if you can buy it in ninja robot? In case you missed them recently, these CMT picks have cute-cool covered. 1. Need a place to store spare wires, connectors, rings, and sushi-shaped jump drives? How about inside a...
Piquing our Geek: Current Cost EnviR helps control home energy usage
As a mom with 3 kids (and a whole lot of technology), I am always looking for ways to tame my skyrocketing home utility bills. So I was interested when I saw that Current Cost added a new monitor to their line-up which not only allows people to identify energy usage...
Recycle your tech. It’s a good resolution! Especially when it’s free.
I’m not a big resolutions maker, but am a proponent of out with the old and in with the new. I spent the first day of 2011 cleaning out months of accumulated clutter in my kitchen cabinets and drawers and already feel less hoarder-ish. I should return the old...
Piquing Our Geek: Refrigerators without the HFC
We’re all for greening up our homes and lives wherever we can, and sometimes that comes from the manufacturers, who give us better options in the first place. We read this week that General Electric plans to introduce the first HFC-free refrigerator for US...Hi! We’re Kristen + Liz
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