Little Green Steps

Go paperless from investment prospectus documents. Eco-action #3 Most banking institutions have a paperless option, which I’ve signed up for over the years for general banking. However I am hesitant to go paperless with my investments out of paranoia – what if a robot deletes my account and I have no proof of my recent…

Little Green Steps

Eco-action #2 – Reduce catalog subscriptions. I’ve been calling a bunch of catalog companies, using their general customer service number on the back of the catalog and removing myself from the mailing list. Here’s the batch from today! This cuts down on: 1 – carbon foot print from making and mailing these things 2 –…

Eco Tip – Get rid of junk mail

Eco Action #1 I get too much junk mail! It’s a waste of time to handle it – and a buzz kill for anyone wanting to save the environment. Those lime green sandals don’t look so cute printed on hacked down tree parts. Some sources site a year of junk mail in America is equivalent…

K-cup recycling 

It’s a great perk that the City of LA takes quite a bit of materials for recycling, and with a little work k-cup parts can be recycled. Since it takes a bit of time to disassemble, I collect them in a box and then do it all at once every other month or so. Even…

Water saving ideas

Since we are in the throes of drought in California, I wanted to share some of the things I do to conserve water. A few I was taught the first time my family experienced drought here in the early 90’s when brown-outs were ordered, meaning no more water for your lawn. It became pretty obvious…