I think it is time for me to give a status on how well this going green thing is doing. I am all greened out this week. I have writer’s block and frankly just don’t have the energy to do another radical green change right now. I have talked about a lot of things that I have tried to do to reduce my carbon footprint but the real question is, have I maintained my greenness? It ain’t easy being green. You do need to put in the time and money to be green but in the end it becomes routine and you even start to rub off on other people around you. These are the things I have been keeping up per my previous blogs:
• Using green bags at the grocery store
• Recycling Plastic, Bottles, Paper
• Using indoor drying rack & High Efficiency W/D
• Using non-toxic chemicals in the house
• Getting my family to go green
• Staying green while traveling
• Green Cleaning
• Shredding and recycling paper
Here are the things I have not been doing so well:
Swapping kids clothes. This was a hard one. I couldn’t get anyone to do this with me and quite frankly, I am not really interested in swapping clothes with people I don’t know. I give all my kids’ old clothes to Goodwill or friends anyway so I think I am going to take this one off my list. You can’t do everything.
Unplug Energy Vampires . This proved to be a lot harder to maintain than it was to set it up in the first place. I still have all of my electronics plugged into power strips but I am having trouble figuring out when to turn everything off. When we leave for the day on the weekend we turn everything off but during the weekday it is different. I work from home and I need a lot of the electronics on while I am working. I am not giving up on this one yet because I think it is extremely important but it is going to take a lot more effort on my part.
I have seen a few subtle changes in my friends since I started this blog. One of my severely green challenged friends threw his cigarette away in the garbage instead of leaving it on the ground the other day. That helps me remember that it is worth the effort because eventually all of my friends could go green and then all of their friends and so on and when it catches on we will have a real chance of saving the environment.
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