Last year, I had written about a plastic coffee tumbler that I’d gotten for cheap from the Starbucks store here (opens in a new window). The post received a lot of interest from informed readers like you, especially concerning the presence of any BPA in the tumbler material. After repeated attempts to get that information [...]
If you remember, when we started the Green Project^ in early November of last year, I had pledged that I was going to ‘drive a better car’. During that time, I had the 2005 Honda CRV and a 2000 Mitsubishi Montero. In May of 2008, when I bought the Montero, little did I know that it had [...]
It’s been a while since I posted anything on my Green Project. However, the Green Project is still on and it has become more of a lifestyle change than a project per se. We have been doing a lot of changes and adjustments to our current ways of living. One of the things that we [...]
In my quest towards going green for the next year, I have decided that I shall be carrying my own coffee mug to all coffee stores from now on. Most coffee stores serve coffee in either plastic/styrofoam cups or partially recycled paper cups which you know eventually end up in a landfill. In fact, even [...]
This post is part of my Green Project series. This is one of those things that I fail to understand, no matter how many times or how hard I try. I just do not get the reason behind people’s fascination with bottled water. For the uninitiated, bottled water is the water that you buy at [...]