Hmmm, well, it ain't easy being green but here's my contribution to Mother Nature... These aren't things I've done but things that I am vowing to do since there's a nasty rumor flying around the neighborhood that the newcomers are all eco-nuts and what not. Don't want to get on the bad side of their compost heap! 1. I'm a gonna not waste food. We have been bad about buying and not eating lately. 2. I'm a gonna make fabric out of all those bagillion quatrillion plastic shopping bags. I found a tutorial on the www and am committed to trying it. 3. I'm a gonna take the huge bag of soda cans to the recycler. 4. I'm a gonna use the library instead of buying books. This will be the hardest as I used to be a librarian and love to have books for my own library. 5. I'm a gonna stop driving all over hell's green acre just because I want something 'right now'. 6. I'm a gonna take advantage of my bicycle. 7. I'm a gonna concentrate on getting my kid potty trained so we can stop buying diapers. Damn dirty diapers. 8. I'm a gonna utilize my fabric scraps to the nth degree and make my own shopping bags and various other usefull stuffs. 9. I'm a gonna give the evil eye and break out my old witch craft books to curse any litterbug I witness... this includes hubby who has taken to butt dumping on the side of our house. I think I will curse him with a nicotene allergy! And finally... 10. I'm a gonna go one week without buying a damn thing (except groceries). This will be a trial run for a longer period of time... cold turkey is just as appetizing when you aren't talking about food as when you are. YUK!
kopper
· 1 year ago
Well, I proudly use a "green" webhost (click here), and we already recycle all of our plastic, aluminum, paper, etc., but I plan on putting in a backyard compost this summer (once I replace our worn-out fence). But my big plan is to get a diesel-powered car (probably either a VW Beetle or Mercedes) and run it on vegoil (biodiesel). Unfortunately I probably won't be able to afford to do that until next year, though. Those cars ain't cheap, ya know.
misscraftypants
· 1 year ago
Hey I am up for bike rides and the plastic bag fabric project!
FYI, Tom's the nut, I am that awfully lazy green girl with hoop dreams of recycling bins and fantastic gas mileage.
Ahhh...
Melody
· 1 year ago
I am going to out myself right now - I am engaged to a man who actually bagged up his *free* recycling bin in a trash bag and put it out on trash pick up day... but I did buy that cute canvas sack from Whole Foods, and I am completely obsessed with thermal coffee mugs. For my part that reduces styro-foam waste - which by the way makes the most awful noise when rubbed against anything - but I still don't think that makes up for the recycling bin...
Raquita
· 1 year ago
Jerry and I won't (we're tryin really really hard to live on one car.) buy another car until we can afford to buy one thats a hybrid or a diesl that we can convert to veggie oil. we also replaced the bulbs in most of our house with those forever lasting ones - the kitchen is the last place we have to replace them - and we can't replace the regular bulb in the living room as it has a dimmer and those green bulbs won't work.
abunslife
· 1 year ago
I carpool to work with a coworker, and while I buy way too much food at one time to use the canvas bags at the store, I do bring back as many of the plastic bags that I can to reuse them again and again. We of course recycle everything that we are allowed to. Believe it or not, I have a bucket to save some of the H20 that runs while trying to heat up for my shower, that I use to water my plants. AND, I yell at my husband to turn off the H20 when he brushes his teeth. :)
Kristen
· 1 year ago
I love to do what I can to save the environment. We recycle plastics and paper but most recently we got rid of a car with a gas guzzling V-8 engine for a Toyota Camry hybrid. We love it so much that we are going to go ahead and get rid of another gas guzzling SUV for another Toyota Hybrid. I've got four kids that I haul around on a regular basis so this is my contribution to the environment.
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These aren't things I've done but things that I am vowing to do since there's a nasty rumor flying around the neighborhood that the newcomers are all eco-nuts and what not. Don't want to get on the bad side of their compost heap!
1. I'm a gonna not waste food. We have been bad about buying and not eating lately.
2. I'm a gonna make fabric out of all those bagillion quatrillion plastic shopping bags. I found a tutorial on the www and am committed to trying it.
3. I'm a gonna take the huge bag of soda cans to the recycler.
4. I'm a gonna use the library instead of buying books. This will be the hardest as I used to be a librarian and love to have books for my own library.
5. I'm a gonna stop driving all over hell's green acre just because I want something 'right now'.
6. I'm a gonna take advantage of my bicycle.
7. I'm a gonna concentrate on getting my kid potty trained so we can stop buying diapers. Damn dirty diapers.
8. I'm a gonna utilize my fabric scraps to the nth degree and make my own shopping bags and various other usefull stuffs.
9. I'm a gonna give the evil eye and break out my old witch craft books to curse any litterbug I witness... this includes hubby who has taken to butt dumping on the side of our house. I think I will curse him with a nicotene allergy!
And finally...
10. I'm a gonna go one week without buying a damn thing (except groceries). This will be a trial run for a longer period of time... cold turkey is just as appetizing when you aren't talking about food as when you are. YUK!
FYI, Tom's the nut, I am that awfully lazy green girl with hoop dreams of recycling bins and fantastic gas mileage.
Ahhh...
we also replaced the bulbs in most of our house with those forever lasting ones - the kitchen is the last place we have to replace them - and we can't replace the regular bulb in the living room as it has a dimmer and those green bulbs won't work.