Greens We Dig: Ideal Bite

Ideal Bite is a site that I stumbled upon sometime last year. I signed up to their newsletter and have been pleasantly surprised with their content. Sign up to their newsletter and a new eco-tip will be sent to you every day. I have found more than one useful tip, like Recycle 101 and plenty of tips on subjects I never thought of as green...such as help for a hangover

I recently had a chance to chat with Mindi Picotte, Marketing & PR Associate at Ideal Bite. She re-confirmed my choice of Ideal Bite as our first Greens We Dig post.

What I like most about Ideal Bite is that it’s about light green living – we keep it real, fun, and positive - no doom-and-gloom allowed. I can go home at the end of the day feeling good about what we do here.

Amanda and I truly believe that simple solutions can really be a factor in helping to restore this world. If you see a tip from Ideal Bite that you really like, let us know! As for Mindi, I asked her what her favorite tip was...

As for one eco-tip, that’s a tough one because there are so many! I’d have to say one of my favorite tips is “Beware of the Phantom Loads” – a phantom load is the energy used by appliances that are plugged in but not turned on, and simply by using a power strip to ‘unplug’ everything at once you can save tons of energy and cash – in the average home, phantom loads account for 40% of the energy bill!

Ideal Bite offers bite-sized ideas for light green living. Easy eco-living tips are presented in a short, sassy and free email each weekday. From organic wine to eco-friendly fashion, the Daily Tips provide level-headed advice for people who want to do the right thing without giving up creature comforts. The mission is to create a more sustainable world by connecting enlightened companies with Ideal Bite's 115,000+ subscribers who want to vote with their dollars by making small changes that add up. Far from eco-perfect themselves, the editors candidly share their humorous trials and tribulations in the blog. The secret sauce is a spoonful of “incremental environmentalism” with a keeping-it-real attitude... a perfect mix that empowers subscribers to align their values with everyday decisions.