Olivia Lane is a Blogger, Green Living Educator, and Health Coach trained at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She's also author of Baking Soda & Bliss: The Healthy & Happy Guide to Green Cleaning.
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Thursday, September 8, 2011
Richard and I went to the Unsold Supper
Unsold Supper was the highlight of a Labor Day weekend spent in the city. The event was held in Union Square Park last Saturday and organized by OurGoods, a barter network for creatives, and The Greenhorns, a non-profit that supports young farmers. It was wonderful to witness so many people enjoying a free feast prepared by volunteers with unsold Greenmarket goods that were generously donated by the farmers. I was a bit overwhelmed (and confused) by the barter wall, but the display of random offerings of love and energy was beautiful. It was also fun to chat with people I admire but don't see enough of (including Anne Pope of Sustainable Flatbush and Dee-Dee of MoS Collective). Were you there? What did you think of the event?
Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Rainy Day Project: Clean Your Laptop
- Solution of 1 part rubbing alcohol and 1 part filtered water-- about 2 oz of each should be enough, so start with that. This solution is great because alcohol is excellent at cutting stickiness and it dries quickly.
- A lint-free cloth. E-cloth's glass cloth is a good choice.
- Canned/ Compressed Air
Thursday, August 18, 2011
Move In/ Move Out Green Cleaning
Update: I no longer offer cleaning services.
Olivia Lane is a Blogger, Green Living Educator, and Health Coach trained at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She's also author of Baking Soda & Bliss: The Healthy & Happy Guide to Green Cleaning.
Thursday, August 11, 2011
Stay informed about NYC Vegan & AR Book Swap!
I'm getting ready for the first Vegan & Animal Rights Book Swap. It's 6-9pm tonight at Sustainable NYC (139 Ave A at 9th St.).
Olivia Lane is a Blogger, Green Living Educator, and Health Coach trained at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She's also author of Baking Soda & Bliss: The Healthy & Happy Guide to Green Cleaning.
Tuesday, July 12, 2011
I'm hosting a Vegan/ Animal Rights Book Swap to Benefit Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary
Calling all veggies and friends of animals with dusty, crowded book shelves! Please join us for an evening swap of inspiring vegan cookbooks, theory books, how-to dvds, and all other media related to vegetarianism and animal rights. This event is open to all whether you are a hardcore vegan with a dozen books (and tattoos) or a veg-curious passerby.
There will be a raffle in support of Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary. (Prizes include a gift certificate to Sustainable NYC!) All books remaining after the swap will be donated to the Housing Works Bookstore Cafe.
As if scoring free books, helping rescued animals, and supporting New Yorkers living with AIDS isn't enough, we'll have lots of delicious flavors of Lula's Sweet Apothecary vegan ice cream for sale in the cafe and a 10% discount on all items in the shop during the event!
For more info or to contribute a prize to the raffle, contact: olivia@supervegan.com
(RSVP via Facebook)
Update: Thanks to all twenty-or-so of you who came, chatted, swapped, bought raffle tickets, and threw a few bucks in the donation jar. We collected $62 and my sweet boyfriend made a matching donation, so we raised at total of $124 for Woodstock Farm Animal Sanctuary! I'm also enjoying the Teany Book I picked up. (I promise to share it or something equally awesome at the next swap.)
Olivia Lane is a Blogger, Green Living Educator, and Health Coach trained at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She's also author of Baking Soda & Bliss: The Healthy & Happy Guide to Green Cleaning.
Friday, July 1, 2011
Get Dirty this Summer!
Olivia Lane is a Blogger, Green Living Educator, and Health Coach trained at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She's also author of Baking Soda & Bliss: The Healthy & Happy Guide to Green Cleaning.
Wednesday, June 8, 2011
5 Things to Do if You Hate Cleaning
- Buy a microwave splatter cover
and actually use it every time you place something in the microwave. Would you rather spend 30 seconds hand washing (or zero-time machine washing) a little cover every so often or at least 3 minutes prying off cheese, tomato sauce, and other gross stuff that's been baked into, or exploded onto, the walls of your microwave?
- Stop wearing your shoes in your apartment and leave dirt (and the city pavement's melange of chemicals and excrement) at the door.
- Keep your cutesy pie collectables in a curio. More things out mean more surfaces to dust. If you display things in a cabinet the items remain dust free and all you have to do is clean the glass occasionally. (Vertical surfaces collect less dust than horizontal surfaces.) You'll also lessen the chances of having to clean up a mess resulting from someone accidentally knocking over a glass or ceramic item.
- Keep your honey, agave, or other syrup jar in a little bowl or on a little plate. This will spare you from having to clean up the sticky mess from various spots on your table, which is way more annoying than cleaning a dish in my opinion.
- Hire me to clean for you!
Olivia Lane is a Blogger, Green Living Educator, and Health Coach trained at The Institute for Integrative Nutrition. She's also author of Baking Soda & Bliss: The Healthy & Happy Guide to Green Cleaning.
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