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I love gear storage and organization solutions, but I don’t typically seek out the fancy options. Look around my garage and you’ll find shoeboxes holding mittens, winter hats, and headlamps. Nearby two $11 plastic totes are filled with different helmet/goggle combinations and four pairs of ski boots. Under the stairs, more plastic containers hold our camp kitchen supplies, sleeping bags, and backpacks. Whenever we set out on an adventure-filled road trip, we simply toss the bins in the back of our Mazda CX-5, next to a pair of Patagonia Black Hole duffels, a few other totes full of nonperishables, and...

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I love the thought behind Earth Month, Earth Day, Earth Hour, etc., etc. It gets people to think about our daily actions and how the planet is in actual, real trouble. The problem is that these trendy hashtags and momentary pushes to recycle are they’re largely performative. There are so many things we can actually do, and I mean besides RT the usual stats and Greta Thunberg tweets. A big, and I mean MASSIVE one we can do is to get rid of the green lawns (or maybe just a part of it) that were popularised by French and English...

Can  You Have Green Laundry with Clothes Dryers?   Clothes dryers are very convenient, but they’re also big energy users, and thus expensive to use, and not green. So it makes sense to look for alternatives, and use green laundry practices. Of course we all know that if the weather is good, and if you have the space, line drying clothes (or using a clothes rack / clothes horse) is the healthiest and the greenest and the cheapest method (see hanging tips). Using the sun to dry your clothes (solar power) is free. But what if you don’t have a...

Chicken Thighs in the Oven Wishing tonight’s dinner was easy, inexpensive, and pretty difficult to mess up? Bonus points if it’s healthy? Time to make Chicken Thighs in the Oven! Pin this recipe on Pinterest to save for later Pin It! While baked boneless skinless chicken breast might occupy the default setting in your grocery shopping approach, it is well worth picking up a pack of bone-in, skin-on chicken thighs every now and then instead. Old fashioned chicken thighs in the oven are equally as make-ahead friendly as they are last-minute healthy dinner material. (Though for the fastest method for...