February 17, 2009
Autoseal Stainless Steel Travel Mug This travel mug fills me with awe.  My friend Catey demonstrated how her new Autoseal works.  She filled it with coffee and cream, sealed it, shook it, rolled it across the table, then picked it up and took a serene sip.  The only down side, according to Catey: the nifty vacuum-sealing top is hard to clean.

Autoseal Stainless Steel Travel Mug

This travel mug fills me with awe.  My friend Catey demonstrated how her new Autoseal works.  She filled it with coffee and cream, sealed it, shook it, rolled it across the table, then picked it up and took a serene sip.  The only down side, according to Catey: the nifty vacuum-sealing top is hard to clean.

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December 6, 2008
Recycled steel travel mug Reusable travel mugs are everywhere.  If you tend to forget yours, then buy a few and leave them by your front door and in your car.  Or do what I did: if you forget, make yourself buy a new one. You’ll learn pretty quickly! And if it takes a dozen new mugs for you to form the habit, you can give away some of your surplus.

Recycled steel travel mug

Reusable travel mugs are everywhere.  If you tend to forget yours, then buy a few and leave them by your front door and in your car.  Or do what I did: if you forget, make yourself buy a new one. You’ll learn pretty quickly! And if it takes a dozen new mugs for you to form the habit, you can give away some of your surplus.

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December 5, 2008
Each year, Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam cups.  This is enough to circle the earth 436 times each year. Styrofoam accounts for more than 25% of landfill space, and it probably never decomposes. Click here for more styrofoam (polystyrene) facts If we stop buying styrofoam, companies will stop producing it. Try asking restaurants to stop using styrofoam, and then take your business to restaurants that use recyclable to-go containers.  Better yet, bring your own container with you. 

Each year, Americans throw away 25,000,000,000 Styrofoam cups.  This is enough to circle the earth 436 times each year.

Styrofoam accounts for more than 25% of landfill space, and it probably never decomposes.

Click here for more styrofoam (polystyrene) facts

If we stop buying styrofoam, companies will stop producing it. Try asking restaurants to stop using styrofoam, and then take your business to restaurants that use recyclable to-go containers.  Better yet, bring your own container with you. 

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