Crowgyrls.com » bookmooch http://crowgyrls.com Disjointed ramblings from intellectual midgets Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:09:23 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Heading North to Green… http://crowgyrls.com/environment/heading-north-to-green/ http://crowgyrls.com/environment/heading-north-to-green/#comments Sun, 10 May 2009 19:55:21 +0000 Magpie http://crowgyrls.com/?p=298 I have always been conscientious about my affect on my surroundings–people, the environment, even in the simplest, everyday activities such as walking and sitting. I walk lightly. I recycle. If invited to dinner–I bring something and insist on cleaning up. When I visit people, I will offer to take out their trash–play with their children so they can do household chores or run errands. I have even been known to dust for them or rearrange books. I am the one who remembers birthdays–and reminds others. I plant trees and feed birds. I share my car. I upcycle and shut off the water when I brush my teeth. I share books through bookmooch. I buy greeting cards from the Arbor Day Foundation–each one ensures a tree is planted in the National Forests. I buy local organic produce.

I want to leave the earth with as little imprint as possible but I still have a ways to go.

I use paper towels a lot. I love bleach and cotton1. I drink iced tea from starbucks–served in plastic cups2. And I take long showers3 and wash my hands a lot with antibacterial soap–which is both a waste of water and introducing antibacterial stuff into our oceans, rivers and streams.4

I want to make some greener choices. I will start with the cotton I choose to buy. From now on I will try to purchase only responsibly made organic cotton products. I will use less bleach — I am not ready to give it up completely. I am also not at all prepared to give up my antibacterial hand soap. Hahaha… I will re-evaluate this at a later date. I also decided to try Marcal Small steps 100% recycled chlorine-free bleached, no dyes or fragrances paper towels. I had to order them from here because they are not sold in my area yet. I will let you know what I think once I receive and use them. There were other brands of recycled paper towels but they were the brown kind and those bug me for various reasons–also they do not come in select-a-size which I have come to appreciate.

Any ideas on the starbucks iced tea?

  1. http://www.organicconsumers.org/clothes/background.cfm
  2. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Pacific_Garbage_Patch
  3. http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/science/09/17/water.crisis/
  4. http://www.commondreams.org/headlines06/0510-07.htm
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