Sustainable Suds, Green BBQ Cutlery and Reel Mowers
by Jessica Root - Brooklyn, NY on 07. 1.08
:: Lather up with eco-friendly soaps.
:: Forget regular plastic cutlery at barbeques and opt for reusable or biodegradable options.
:: Push around a reel mower to get your yard beautifully green.
:: Re-think your household cleansers.
:: Delight in this season's fruit and veggies come January—by preserving them!
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Keep a little salt, baking soda, vinegar, lemon concentrate, and peppermint oil soap handy -- and a little elbow grease -- and you can do most of what needs doing with a whole lot less cost -- and often less of a carbon footprint -- than with many "green clean" products.
I keep a spray bottle of water with a trace of the peppermint soap handy in the kitchen, for example, and when we're done with a dish (that's been scraped into the compost bucket and then rinsed once in the greywater bucket), mist it a little, set it aside for a couple of minutes for the moisture to penetrate, and it practically washes itself. Countertops, spills on the floor, table, bottles and jars where the food has spilled a little -- all made easy mostly by that little wait.
And do the wipe with a cloth, which you can rinse out at the end of the chores, wring dry, and hang up in the sun ( a great disinfectant).