What is your favorite green product?

My lawn is being whittled away for natural plantings. Any tree or bush should have a purpose, like producing fruit (cherries, plums, at least seeds/nuts for wildlife). I have a nice pergola with grapes growing over it, that produces shade in the summer. I enjoy cutting and trimming the grapes and seeing them grow, so that's one of my favorite products.

The other favorite is a Catrike I just got. This is a recumbent 3-wheeled bicycle and I'll be able to put a full fairing on it, so I can bike to work/stores even in the rain and cold. But not the dark. Lights will come later if I feel safe enough. If you really want to go green in your transportation, you have to ditch both gas and electric motors, and do the work yourself - which isn't all that hard, on a properly designed system. The typical diamond-frame bicycles were great for their time (design solidified late 1800's), but recumbents are the future. No more butt and wrist discomfort, or craning your neck to see where you're going.


(Please excuse the busy background, I but you can see my diamond-frame hanging in the garage, where it hasn't moved yet. The Prius has though. Obviously the Halloween decorations are seasonal.)

 

Home Depot actually carries some very good LED lights these days. Browse the selection on the web site so you can figure out which ones are the good ones - because they have some very poor LED lights, too.

Pay attention to the lumens rating whenever you buy a bulb - that alone will go a long ways towards ensuring you don't end up with a dud.

Sounds very nice - how bout some pics!

 

I use this product *every day*

It's made from a renewable resource !!!

Some manufacturers incorporate in its structure recycled fibers.

It bio-degrades totally.

Millions of people in North America also rely on this product on a daily basis.

Thousands of Others rely on this product on a hourly basis, if, for just a short period of time.

Many people critique others for using too much in a single session.

Not having enough in certain locations is very frustrating.

Others, like me, use spare time to do some Origami with this product.

Cats have been know to use this product, to the chagrin of the owners that need to rewind it.

Very young children are fascinated with this product, and find many creative uses.

Moms of said children usually find creative uses of the "core" of the product, and it recycles.

How it's installed before usage is a subject of debate, and has even graced this forum.

There's a company that's improving upon this product to use even less by eliminating the "core".

Comes in a variety of different thicknesses and softness - surprisingly though only in a single color.

Statistically, women use this product in a larger quantity-per-use than men.

Also, some young women have found usage of this product to fool men into thinking that certain things are larger than they really are. To be fair, some men also have made such a use, though in a different location.
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toilet paper

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Origami? With toilet paper? Surely you jest!

 

Yay! Another vote for recumbents. They're definitely more comfortable, usually faster, and the vision is much better.

 

I jest not !!! Great fun

Toilet Paper Origami

 

ah... you ruined it for me. i figured green goes both ways, right?. share a fave and list an enviromentaly good product or thing.

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best green product in the world?.. the ocean.. you know.. where the real percentage of your air comes from. or.. was.. until oil kills it...

(enough butt kissing)

as good as water is, i like invisible glass. it's greenish.

i've tried soap nuts. it's hard to find really good soapnuts. not worth my time and efforts (unfortunetly)

i'm tempted to toss a bunch of them into my parents ultimate blender and make a paste out of them.. haha...

 

Personally, I think it's stupid when the housekeeper at a hotel wastes time folding the toilet paper that I'm going to wipe my nice person with.

But what really annoys me is when they create a clump out of the kleenex, trying to make it fancy as well, but the end result is that when I try to pull out one sheet, the whole damn clump of 8 or 10 sheets pulls out and then I have to reach inside to get the next one out.

I've been using Maggie's Soap Nuts ever since Rene mentioned them here on PC. Except that now Maggie's has liquid soap nuts: liquid clothes-washing "soap" made from soap nuts. Much more convenient. And buying the stuff is as easy as ordering on-line.

 

we took out 1200' for a garden last spring and are going to enlarge it next spring to 2400' including hoop house. it doesn't have to be huge, just green!

 

hmm... back when they were first mentioned, my family purchased a big bag... the process was problematic. i'll look back into it since the supplier is offering different products.

 

You can take the less-great soap nuts, and simmer them in water to make your own liquid soap.

 

Too much work. I just buy Maggie's liquid now. I still have some of the nuts, and I use them for washing bed sheets, which take hot water, but once those are gone, and for everything else, I use the liquid.

 

Sounds very nice - how bout some pics! [/QUOTE]

 

Not so sure how to do this, here are a couple more.

 

Huh? That fellows head is much lower then somebody on a bikicyle. So how can he see better?

Why are they faster especialy that one with three wheels all spred out and such.

 

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No ofense you like your yard but a yard like that where I am from is result of a drout lol. :cheer2:

I ben thinkin about putting roundup gras killer on my yard and then puting down that fake astrosterf stuff like in the Astrodome. You shoud put some of that stuf around your yard between the cactuses it comes in many colors. I seen some blue kind at the lumber yard the ohther day. Boy if i put blue in my yard I could have fun with drunk reltives thinkin they fel in the lake!

They got brown to so the animal poop will be hiding. I shoot varmints and such that comes in the yard like rabbits and squirles but I can't be out there all the time plus my naybor called the cop on me the other day when i peppered his house with birdshot when i was shootin at his pidgions. Pidgions taste like chicken. I also shot his cat that was poopin in my sons sandbox so we dont get alon to well. And his dog that breed with my prize bluetics when it got loose. talk bout some ugly puppys but i got rid of them if you kno what i mean thank you very much. :welcome:

So all I am sayin is thjat the animal poop will get in the y ard so the brown astrosterf will be better but it probably is hard to see with your drout yard.
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So my favrite greeny product wood be astrosterf.

 

Why do all that? Why not jut go to teh store and by some soap? I had to gogle 'soapnut' sense i never heard of it. Where do you peple come up with this stuf? I thaught soapnuts was some kind of perverted bathtub thing for those alternate lifsiles. I will keep my Irelandspring soad thank you very much. :cheer2:

 

Heineken...

 

The yard does not look like that now, that was early on in the transition. I will try and post a picture of the front yard now that the plants have grown in. The blooming flowers of cacti are single shots of what they look like now. I'll admit the yard looked pretty drought like in the first couple of pictures. I've also changed things around a bit. Some of the cacti have died off. They are tricky to say the least. I have learned a lot since the yard has changed.

I fear using a BB gun to plink at the kitties, I might hurt one. They do like to poop in some parts of the yard, but there are pepper powders available as a deterrent. Since I use decomposed granite as a topsoil, it forms a hard crust that cats cannot dig through. If the crusty soil is broken somehow, they will dig there until I sprinkle some more of the pepper type stuff. Feral cats be dammed, cats with collars are safe around here. I know the good kitties from the feral ones.

 

You can pedal more efficiently (faster) from a recumbent position than from an upright position. It's leverage and biomechanics. (And most recumbents have two-wheels. I have a stationary recumbent. Much nicer than an upright. Now, at first glance, it looks like it's not going anywhere, but it's actually going about a million miles a day whether I'm on it or not! :rockon: )

If you're going to put down Astroturf, there's no need to spray Roundup. The Astroturf will kill the grass underneath. Spraying beforehand would be a waste of money.