V's Version

Tuesday, February 27, 2007

Only we can change the environment! I realize that I cannot change everything that there is to change. I still use plastic sandwich bags (although I wash them and reuse them.) I still buy coffee and forget my to-go mug. I still commute. I am not perfect in my goal toward zero impact.

Some changes I have made:

A switch to post-consumer recycled paper products when I buy papaer products at all.

I use cloth napkins.

I compost.

I do not eat at fast food restaurants.

I made a committment to buy local or LOO - produce, products...local whenever possible

I refuse more and more to shop at the chain stores and Costco and big box stores. I don't care how cheap the prices are - they are too expensive.

I carpool.

I garden more than I shop for clothes or stuff.

I take less showers and wear my clothes longer.

I volunteer. A lot.

I do not watch TV.

I am a Unitarian Universalist in a church running on solar power.

I made a commitment to buy a biodiesel vehicle.

I avoid (whenever possible) buying from China (both to boycott their occupation of Tibet and to avoid funding environmental disasters and human rights violations.)

I reuse and recycle whenever I can.

I can do more. You can do more. For now, lets support Al Gore. He wants us to write to Congress. I did. It took less than a minute.

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