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7 Everyday Inexpensive Items That Simplify Your Life

Posted on June 20, 2024June 20, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
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These 7 modest items will simplify your life, saving you time and money. You may own several already but have not put them to use.

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Laundry to Landscape Grey Water System Conserves Water and Money

Posted on December 12, 2022August 2, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau
A washing machine is hooked to pipes and a valve for a greywater system

Our laundry-to-landscape grey water system captures water from the washing machine, diverts it to plants outside and lowers our water bill.

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Stop Pouring These 8 Leftover Flavors Down the Drain

Posted on September 29, 2021February 5, 2023by Anne-Marie Bonneau
Three glass jars on a marble background, containing bean broth. They are pinto bean broth, black bean broth and kidney bean broth.

You’ll want to save these leftover concoctions to cook with later because they add so much flavor to dishes. But you’ll also conserve water.

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15 Easy Ways to Conserve Water in Your Kitchen and on Your Plate

Posted on May 19, 2021May 29, 2024by Anne-Marie Bonneau
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Directly conserve water flowing out of your kitchen taps and indirectly conserve it on the farm by considering how and where your food grows.

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Letter from California (Part I)

Posted on April 7, 2015May 20, 2021by Anne-Marie Bonneau

Dear Reader, As you likely know, we’re experiencing an epic drought here in California, the worst in the state’s history. Last week’s snowpack measurements came in at 80 percent below last year’s record low peak snowpack measurements. But as I look around, life continues as normal—unbearable traffic; talk at my café of startups, seed funds […]

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