low-stress ideas for living a deeper shade of green
Red Wine – I’d be lost with out it! My first experience with Chilean wine was back around 1995, when my children’s nanny — a wonderful Chilean woman — brought me a bottle. I’m thinking, Chile? … how good can this wine be? I will be the first to say, this “pseudo wine snob,” was [...]
RePurposing in the Garden – Part II Mary, Mary quite contrary … WAIT A MINUTE! Why would mary be “contrary” when we’re talking about how her garden grows? She’s pretty darn clear about how it grows, ” … with silver bells and cockle shells and pretty maids all in row.” Putting aside the rhyme and [...]
April 22 – Earth Day. Hmmm? An important day for sure to create and increase awareness … to assure respect and love for Mother Earth continues from one generation to the next. I just don’t want Earth Day to become another Veterans Day, Mother’s Day or What-have-you DAY; a day we set aside once a year to remind folks of what’s [...]
Quercus Suber – The Cork Oak People who know me … know my family … also know we LOVE our red wines. Shiraz, Cabernet, Barolo, Amarone … I could go on and on! Which in effect means, I can go on and on about how many corks we have. Dad had bags full and I [...]
Oh how we love our pets; whether it’s a pooch or a kitty kitty, one with feathers or scales, or others that hop, crawl, squeak, creep or climb … they bring joy into our lives. At the moment I have 3-cats. They, like momma are all green pets and love up cycling! Awesome Kitty Hammock [...]
My parents emigrated from Europe in 1957. After 5 brief years in Brooklyn, NY, they bought the house in which I grew up. It’s the first house at the top of a dead-end street with a yard much bigger than the others in the neighborhood. Mom still lives there. We’d play with all the neighborhood kids [...]
In New Jersey, we had thousands of trees ripped out of the ground by their roots, others simply snapping by the force of the storms. Like most of my neighbors, I was not spared, losing 2 beautiful, healthy, tall black walnut trees. Okay, so some of the wood ended up as firewood but black walnut is beautiful hard wood. I am so sorry to see it go up in flames.
What to do with all those T-shirts when the time comes when you no longer wear them; when it’s time purge? Clearly us Green Divas believe in donating those that may not have any special meaning. And of course, Green Divas also take those Ts and repurpose, repurpose, repurpose!
Around the world, there are at least 45 tire manufacturers making millions of tires every year. In fact, globally, the auto industry and its consumers use about 1.3 billion tires each year. Mechanics in the United States install 17.5 million of those tires annually.
