Comments on: Happy Earth Day!

By: joy

joy — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:25:32 +0000

Thanks y’all for all these wonderful ideas!

Ben — Good for you! I love my beef. Haha. How long have you stopped driving?

Mark — Great idea for the plants! I saw someone before who used it for orchids. Neat.

Katy — Yay, go local!

Manggy — Yep, that’s a lot of plastic bottles.

Feefifoto — I haven’t heard of the Green Cone. It sounds really good.

By: feefifoto

feefifoto — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 17:15:45 +0000

Compost food scraps. We have a Green Cone in our yard -- it's kind of a round plastic laundry basket that you bury in the ground and then it has a tall plastic cone that attaches to the basket above ground so all the food scraps are buried underground and no people or animals can get to them (except bugs and worms). The sunshine on the cone heats it up to help the waste break down quickly and the moisture and nutrients just seep into the ground. Because it's underground you can put any kind of food waste into it, even fat and bones. feefifoto's last blog post..Gifts For Customers

By: Manggy

Manggy — Thu, 24 Apr 2008 13:57:05 +0000

Great ideas! My contribution is to bring your own water to the gym and such :) I hate having to buy bottled water. Imagine my horror when I visited my relatives in the States and they even had bottled water at home! Just a waste. Manggy's last blog post..Magic Spice Cake with Maple Penuche Frosting

By: katy

katy — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 16:42:04 +0000

excellent ideas! also: 1) walk to and from work once a week, 2) change your lightbulbs to energy-efficient ones, 3) eat one extra vegetarian meal (it takes 400 calories of grain to produce 100 calories of animal protein), 4) locate a farmer's market near you and shop there, and 5) rather than exercising on a machine at the gym, go for a run outside! katy's last blog post..Mushroom-Stuffed Mushrooms

By: Mark

Mark — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 06:01:06 +0000

My wife and I try to save as much energy in the home as we can and re-use our old carrier bags. We use bags for life for our shopping and re-cycle everything we can. I even use old toilet roll tubes as plant pots as they are biodegradable and can be planted straight out. In this day and age we all need to do our bit for the planet! Mark's last blog post..A New Generation of Cruise Liner

By: Ben

Ben — Wed, 23 Apr 2008 00:31:43 +0000

There are a lot of things we can do, little things. We stopped eating beef for environmental reasons. I stopped driving. It is a pain in the butt in this country, but I am surviving. I walk as much as I can and I got a smaller computer that I turn off when it's not in use. Little things make a big difference. Ben's last blog post..Taco salad, my Tex-Mex lunch