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You might remember that at our condo, I made a small vermicompost bucket for the balcony. While we didn't have enough space there to tak...

Today is my 20th day of the #WasteNot challenge, sponsored by  Travel Well Magazine . This is a simple one, but an important one nonet...

Today is my 19th day of the #WasteNot challenge, sponsored by  Travel Well Magazine . Here is my low waste coffee and tea set up: We ...

Today is my sixteenth day of the #WasteNot challenge, sponsored by  Travel Well Magazine . Today I'll share a way I reuse when working o...

Today is my fourth day of the #WasteNot challenge, sponsored by  Travel Well Magazine . Here's something that is making a difference in ...

For Day 3 of the WasteNot Challenge, I'm sharing my homemade lemon curd. After all of the Passover baking at the beginning of April, I...

Today is my second day of the #WasteNot challenge, sponsored by Travel Well Magazine . Here's something you've seen on the blog befo...

While I was gone for a wedding in NYC this last weekend, my awesome friend Ali started posting pictures of steps she takes towards a zero wa...

Back in California, eating local, organic and humanely raised food was relatively simple. Sure it took more than a simple trip to the superm...

One of our amazing foodie discoveries since moving to Colorado has been dairy delivery. When we were touring homes with our realtor, we noti...

Our move from the San Francisco Bay Area to Denver has meant many changes and adjustments, but today as I add to my Conservation Monday seri...

This past weekend we were back out in the orchards with Village Harvest. I wrote about the apricot harvest we did with them last year here ....

Although "green living" or sustainability are not design choices themselves, it seems that they have become identifiable with cert...

In the hectic existence that is a master's thesis, I missed my Conservation Monday post last week. Oops! I hope today's post makes u...

It's Monday, which means it's once again time to share some conservation/waste reduction tips! The last two weeks, we've looke...

Once again, welcome to my weekly Conservation Monday series! In keeping with last week's focus on the kitchen, I decided to focus on c...

Welcome back to Conservation Monday at Living Design! While this series was inspired by the drought situation here in California, I want t...

Welcome back to Conservation Monday at Living Design! Last week I discussed 5 simple changes to make around the house that can passively ...

Welcome to my first Conservation Monday post! I plan to post new tips and ideas on conserving resources every Monday. Please feel free to sh...

I think it's time for an update on our super cheap DIY worm bin, don't you? Despite some hiccups as we got the hang of maintaining...