Room for Change Archives - Bluedot Living

Room for Change: Toilets

Mollie Doyle — Fri, 07 Apr 2023 18:42:12 +0000

In our Room for Change series, we look for relatively inexpensive ways to make sustainable, climate-mitigating improvements to our homes that have a big payoff. When it comes to toilets, we believe we’ve found the royal flush of sustainable ideas. No matter who we are or what kind of homes we have, everyone needs a […]

The post Room for Change: Toilets appeared first on Bluedot Living.

Room for Change: Rugs

Mollie Doyle — Mon, 21 Nov 2022 21:46:04 +0000

I have never liked wall-to-wall carpeting. But a night on the carpet of the Delhi airport sealed the deal. I landed in Delhi around 2 a.m., after customs had closed. My fellow passengers and I were ushered to a large, chairless, carpeted area guarded by several police officers who told us we could “sleep” on […]

The post Room for Change: Rugs appeared first on Bluedot Living.

Room For Change: The Lawn

Mollie Doyle — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:34:49 +0000

If you must mow, consider going electric with mowers and blowers that do the job with less pollutants. It is summer, people. Time to get outside. So I will keep it short and talk about some lawn tools you might want to consider as you head out into the sunshine. First and foremost, let me […]

The post Room For Change: The Lawn appeared first on Bluedot Living.

Room for Change: The Bed

Mollie Doyle — Mon, 07 Mar 2022 11:39:59 +0000

In my junior year, my dear and brilliant friend whom I’ll call Rose got kicked out of college. Due to the drug-related nature of her dismissal, Rose had to make a fast exit so she left me her bed — a two-month-old very expensive queen mattress and box spring — and a set of new […]

The post Room for Change: The Bed appeared first on Bluedot Living.

Room for Change: The Pantry

Mollie Doyle — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 16:43:20 +0000

Breaking habits and cutting down on plastic I’ll be honest. I find all the pictures of people’s glossy, zero-waste kitchens with perfectly labeled Mason jars to be obnoxious, and, for the most part, dishonest. Do these folks really have not one piece of single-use plastic in their kitchens? Not even a plastic trash bag? I […]

The post Room for Change: The Pantry appeared first on Bluedot Living.

Room for Change: The Closet

Mollie Doyle — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 19:35:29 +0000

C’mon: It’s not like human survival depends on us each having five pairs of jeans in our closet. When I was 12, I went school shopping in the fall and bought one pair of Levi’s jeans, a gray Fair Isle sweater, and white Nike sneakers with a red swish. I wore a version of this […]

The post Room for Change: The Closet appeared first on Bluedot Living.