What are you doing to go green?

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  • mousie829
  on Jun. 29, 2009 at 1:23 PM

•  I try to recycle as much as I can. I buy fresh and in season, not canned or frozen. I plant things that I can eat, ex: herbs. I live in an apartment complex so I try to conserve energy when ever I can. I wash in cold water and hang them on racks to dry. I cook 3 times a week for several meals at a time. Use energy efficient lightbulbs. I wear only natural fabrics, cotton, wool, silk linen. I buy  almost all my clothes second hand. I give away what I don't need and try to live very simply. I scale back on how many outfits I have to wear per season. I use homemade cleaners. I recycle paper for grocery lists and such. I hope to learn from others and be a greenie even more...Miriam 

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  • scarletpao
  on Jun. 30, 2009 at 9:01 AM

• Those are all great things!  Thanks for sharing. One more that I can think of is i always unplug things that I won't be using for a while, especially if they have those boxes (like my cell charger) because they still sap enegy when not in use!  I didn't know that till i watched Al Gore's fil, An Inconvenient Truth'

  Best Wishes,  Scarlet
  Go green!  Replace harsh chemicals in your house and medicine cabinet with organic essential oils, nutritional supplements, and personal care.   Shop with me at http://www.youngliving.org/scarlet

  
  

  

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  • mamazfave3
  on Jul. 15, 2009 at 1:17 PM

• Hello, my name is Johnnia and I'm new to this group.  I've tried many things to help our family "go green" such as use cloth diapers with my children, use cloth bags to tote grocerys instead of plastic, recycle paper, plastic, and aluminum cans often, change out all of our lightbulbs to more eco-friendly ones, only was clothes in large loads and try to only use cold water washes.....buy fresh produce and garden..... thanks!

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  • Mrs.Bolin
  on Jul. 15, 2009 at 10:48 PM

• I have been recycling alot. It has helped me save trash bags so much. Our only recycle bin is at our little wal-mart but they only except paper, pop cans and plastic.  There are no other recylcling places in my area.I have also switched all of my cleaning products to the chemical free ones. Love the earth friendly life
  

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  • scarletpao
  on Jul. 18, 2009 at 6:06 PM

• Way to go!  Every bit helps and the more you do it, the more you do it!!
  

  Best Wishes,  Scarlet
  Go green!  Replace harsh chemicals in your house and medicine cabinet with organic essential oils, nutritional supplements, and personal care.   Shop with me at http://www.youngliving.org/scarlet

  
  

  

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  • BarbWAHM
  on Sep. 13, 2009 at 5:38 PM

• This year I invested in a laptop lunchbox system for DS (1st grade) to try and minimize my use of plastic bags - so far he loves his new lunchbox system. 

  http://www.laptoplunches.com/

  Our city also recently changed their waste management contract.  Our "garbage" is now in a smaller container and is only picked up 1 every 2 weeks.  But now we can put all of our food waste into our yard waste bin, and it is picked up every week.  We can include all food waste, brown paper bags, pizza boxes and the like in with the food waste.  We alreay had recycle bins (3) in which we would separate out the plastics/glass, paper products, newpapers, but now we have one great big bin and we can throw it all into one bin.  I was a little afraid about the 1 every othe week garbage pickup, but so far, we've managed without problem. 

  I've quit buying individual containers of Choc Milk, and now fill DS's reusable water bottle from the gallon jug of Choc. Milk.  I've also quit buying Gatorade sports drinks and use a sports drink mix from the company that I market for - it has less sugar and more electrolytes, and I'm not adding to the landfills with the plastic bottles as I mix it up at home and put in our reusable bottles before we go play. 

  I've switched to laundry detergents with no phospates or bleach, and to dishwashing detergent with no phosphates or chlorine. 

  I know I'm still a baby in the "green living" arena, but I figure each baby step I take helps.  Hanging out on boards like these has helped as I'm always learning more things that I can incorporate into our lives. 

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  Barb Stork (Mom to 2 boys, ages 6 and 3)
  http://www.workathomeunited.com/barbstork
  
  

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