Thursday, April 22, 2010

Day 28 and I'm Feeling Pretty Green

Happy Earth Day! In an effort to live with deliberate intent, I am making strides to be as GREEN as possible. Reduce. Reuse. Recycle. Here are a few results of my family’s conscious efforts toward environmentalism.

• Recognized and celebrated Earth Hour by turning off the lights and major appliances and played card by candlelight. So much fun, btw, I would recommend it for any Saturday night entertainment.

• Dressed in blue and green today for Earth Day… from our earrings (my daughter and I) to our underwear!

• Actually doing anything by candlelight is quite a nice change of pace :)

• Recycling paper, plastic and cardboard.

• Carrying a canteen of water instead of those nasty plastic ones – just learned a lot about that, and it’s enough to make your skin crawl and maybe even literally!

• Reusable shopping bags which are much more fashionable that those old plastic ones, to be sure.

• No more flyers!!!

• Clean up day with the City and with Scouts/Brownies.

Isn’t it great that taking care of the environment can be fun, too! It’s a great way of being as I count the days to my 40th birthday.

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