Mollie Doyle, Author at Bluedot Living

Remodelista: Considered Low-Impact Living

Mollie Doyle — Wed, 21 Jun 2023 18:43:20 +0000

Before I started writing for Bluedot Living, I’d sometimes feel like a stalker when I’d call up fellow folks obsessed with climate mitigation to talk to them about their work, and they’d be like (in kinder words), “I’m sorry. Who are you?” Now I have a reason to call, and I exercise it regularly. It […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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PROFILE: Schmidt’s Deodorant

Mollie Doyle — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 17:06:50 +0000

Stink-fighting beauty. This might sound strange, but when I was about 18, I realized that people who sweat are my people. These folks do not “perspire,” “glisten,”, or “glow.” They dance, do yoga, play tennis, run, and ski. They sweat, and their clothes get soggy. Although I found my people early in life, it took […]

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PROFILE: Dr. Bronner’s Peppermint Castile Soap

Mollie Doyle — Fri, 08 Jul 2022 17:02:37 +0000

For this editor, Dr. Bronner's is a shower staple. The first time I heard the word biodegradable, I was 10 years old. I was heading off to sleep away camp and “biodegradable soap” was on the packing list. Campers needed this because we would be bathing in a lake. So my mom and I went […]

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PROFILE: Barnacle Alaskan Everything Kelp Seasoning

Mollie Doyle — Fri, 20 May 2022 19:20:16 +0000

A seasoning for every season! A few years ago, my daughter Emma and I walked into Morning Glory Farm on Martha’s Vineyard, where we live, and spied a stack of small jars on a shelf near the entrance. They read: “Barnacle Alaskan Everything Kelp Seasoning.” Our eyes lit up. She nodded. I put one in […]

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Better Laundry, Better Planet

Mollie Doyle — Thu, 10 Mar 2022 15:27:59 +0000

Do Your Laundry with Dropps, and other save-the-planet ideas. How much laundry do you do? I do too much. While I don’t wash my jeans very often and my sweaters about once a year (#3 below), we are an extremely active family and produce a tremendous amount of dirty, sweaty, stinky clothes that genuinely need […]

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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 […]

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RECIPE: Skillet Irish Soda Bread

Mollie Doyle — Mon, 25 Oct 2021 20:39:53 +0000

Comfort in a cast-iron pan. Even though I lived in New York City for more than a decade, had eaten food by some of the city’s best chefs, and edited many cookbooks by some of these chefs, I did not sincerely appreciate food until I was pregnant. In fact, it was food that told my […]

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