Milkweed fibers repel water but absorb oil. And that means that milkweed is a safe, natural, plant-based, hypoallergenic, and effective oil spill cleaner. A company called Encore3 has started making oil spill cleanup kits using milkweed. Each kit can absorb 53…
Simple Tips for Keeping Warm and Turning Your Heat Down
It’s cold where I am right now. Really cold. The kind of cold that breaks records and the water main in front of my house… So most people around here are thinking about turning the heat up, not turning it…
Green Cookware
A lot of us use cookware that’s coated in Teflon (that blackish stuff in the pan that keeps stuff from sticking). But older Teflon (and when I say old I don’t mean old old, I mean Teflon that you bought…