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The Green Year
Canadian author Jodi Helmer has made it really easy for me to keep my New Year’s resolution to live a more eco-friendly lifestyle. Her new book, The Green Year, offers a year’s worth of tips. Some of them are pretty simple—I was pleased to discover I was already doing many of them. But I found several surprises that will help me keep my resolution to live more lightly (and more cheaply).
I spoke with Jodi by phone recently and decided to take advantage of her good humour and expertise and use our conversation as my first attempt at a podcast. Let me know what you think. If you have any questions for Jodi let me know and I’ll ask her to pop by and answer them.
And if you know how I can get my oven’s window clean, please let me know that too. One tip Jodi shares in our interview has bumped oven cleaning up to a high priority. (Like many, I’m also a peeker when I bake…)
For those interested, the National Resources Canada website is here.
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Comments
I LOVE clicking the gas cap.
Comment by Anonymous, January 28, 2009 at 17:49I LOVE clicking the gas cap. Now I know that deep inside there was a reason, no just my bizarre love of clicking sounds. Thanks for the great interview!
I've got to say I'm loving
Comment by dianeselkirk, January 14, 2009 at 09:37I've got to say I'm loving Jodi's handy book and plan to report back now and again about how her tips are working out for us. The first one we tried (Well second, I left the oven door closed the whole time when I recently baked salmon. It was stressful...) was to tighten the gas cap more. I told Evan, "3 clicks" and he insisted that must be for older car models, but we tried anyway. If you were in the gas station with us and saw us jumping up and down with each click, now you know why.
It works!
Who knew?
Well, Jodi did...
Diane, I loved your podcast
Comment by Anonymous, January 14, 2009 at 08:28Diane, I loved your podcast on tips for a Green Year!
Now about that oven window! Try this: Coat it in a paste of water and baking soda. Let stand overnight. Then, wearing gloves, scrub off the paste and the gook.
Hi Diane, Great first
Comment by Anonymous, January 14, 2009 at 07:54Hi Diane,
Great first podcast effort! Lots of interesting nuggets of info.
Here are two things you can try re: your grimy oven door window:
Castile soap: cuts grease, and it's a vegetable-based soap.
Sprinkle some baking soda; spritz some water to form a paste and leave on overnight (if you can leave the oven door open and flat, it's better); then scrub off the next morning.
Wendy Helfenbaum
Thanks - I'll try this
Comment by dianeselkirk, January 14, 2009 at 13:12Thanks - I'll try this tonight. I need to make muffins for Maia's lunches tomorrow and I love peaking when I'm baking those...
Great tips -- hard to say no
Comment by Anonymous, January 14, 2009 at 07:52Great tips -- hard to say no to small steps like this that can make a big difference. Jodi's gas-cap tip for cars was interesting (and the statistic she gave about what can happen when you don't tighten the cap was pretty amazing).
I always thought I was
Comment by Anonymous, January 14, 2009 at 07:51I always thought I was strange because I tried hard to close the gas cap tightly. I'm glad I can now say I'm doing it to save money and help the environment! Thank you for your interview and telling us about the book.
Kristen De Deyn Kirk
I honestly didn't realize
Comment by dianeselkirk, January 14, 2009 at 13:15I honestly didn't realize the cap would keep turning after the first click. I sort of feel terrible now...
Small steps I guess though.
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