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Upcoming Green Events in Santa Monica

Santa Monica has a bunch of great public programs for learning more about living green. This month they're hosting lectures and classes that teach you how to plant an edible garden, put together your...

5 Eco-Friendly Things
We Just Discovered And Wanted to Share

Looking for a place in Venice to buy some eco-friendly paint, or a source for sustainable, high quality furniture in Pasadena? Searching for a simple, luxurious soy candle (that will burn for 50 hour...

Simple Green: Put It In The Green Bin

The other day we noticed something about our green yard waste bin that rocked our world a little bit:...

Simple Green: Recycled Toilet Paper

We're betting your first thought is "ewww..." After you get over your skiivies, stop and think. According to Molly Roemer, LA City editor of green blog site IdealBite, as quoted in Angeleno magazine...

Simple Green: Roundup

Phew, is July really almost over? That sure went quickly. Before we all go off on our August adventures, let's take a look back at some of the simple tips we compiled in July for being Green @ Home...

Simple Green: LED Lights for the Patio

It feels like we're always replacing the lights we have strung up outside. Each time summer rolls around there are burnt out bulbs (if not a burnt out string) and we set ourselves up for the task of ...

Simple Green: Take a Look at Your Refrigerator

We all know about not standing in front of the refrigerator, keeping the door open, letting the cold air escape while you decide what you want. Here are some ideas you might not know about that'll up...

Simple Green: Pet Hair Edition

We got such great info about kitty litter disposal practices yesterday that we couldn't resist another pet-related green tip. If you're anything like us you're guilty of using 300 squares of the lint...

Simple Green: Put Kitty Litter in a Paper Bag?

We love our kitty, but as we've talked about, her litter box is not the highlight of the day. And we realize that the plastic grocery bags we reuse to put her litter in probably isn't the best thing ...

Simple Green: Non Toxic Bathroom Cleaners

Most of the time we go the elbow grease route when it comes to getting the ring around the tub off, and we've followed flylady's advice and used shampoo in the toilet, but sometimes the bathroom needs...

Simple Green: Rearrange your Furniture

As we mentioned on friday, using what you already have is a great way to stay green. One way to revamp what it is you've been looking at for a while is to rearrange your furniture. We tend to rearra...

Simple Green: Use What You've Got

Eliminate the need to recycle something, to throw it away, to find a new home for it by not buying that new thing to begin with. So often it's easy to think we need the newest latest whatever, but it...

Green @ Home Project: Turning Off The Lights

As some of the other editors have mentioned in their Green @ Home Projects, it's the little things that add up and make a big difference. And from experience we've found that doing things Big doesn'...

Simple Green: Draw the Drapes

We couldn't resist the reference to one of our favorite books as a kid, Amelia Bedelia. Hired as a maid, Amelia's given a list of things to do, including "draw the drapes" which she does. Literally....

Simple Green: 5 Ways to Clean Up Your Laundy

We hate doing laundry so we put it off and put it off until we have a full load. And we wash everything together in cold water on a short cycle (Even more hateful than laundry is waiting around for i...

Simple Green: When it's Yellow...

This one definitely falls under the category of too much information, but it's a green tip that we learned when we were growing up in drought-prone Southern California before the advent of low flow to...

Death to the Litter Box

Nothing kills us more than coming home after a long day and smelling immediately that before we can relax we need to clean out the litter box. (Seriously, how this tiny cat does it, we'll never know....

Simple Green: Use the Library

Let's start with disclosing that we're avid readers. Like super-avid-have-fights-with-the-bf- over-the-light-being-on-oh-my-gosh-gotta-check-out-Gregory's-post on-reading-lights kind of avid. We lik...

Vintage Wallpaper Lightswitch Covers

We love unexpected details and lightswitch covers definitely fall into that category. These have all been made by hand from vintage wallpaper or ephemera and are surprisingly inexpensive:...

Green Home: 700 Palms House

I've seen the outside of this modern house in Venice hundreds of times, basically every time I come home, but with its giant walls I'd never caught a glimpse of the inside until now: ...

Simple Green: OC Green Guide

The OC is getting into the swing of green things, so if you have a green or sustainable company or you want to find one, add yourself to their Green listings or use someone from their directory. Plus...