tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14359045.post8639337947762389738..comments2024-03-27T13:49:51.795-05:00Comments on Altered Book Lover: A visit to Earth MonthBleubeard and Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10149710375520733752noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14359045.post-31864795800501591742011-04-16T15:51:10.684-05:002011-04-16T15:51:10.684-05:00Love your Mother Earth post, Elizabeth. I really t...Love your Mother Earth post, Elizabeth. I really try hard to remember my shopping bags and try not to walk out of the store with plastic. I have even gotten to the point, if it is a small purchase, I just put it in my purse (yes, Harley has to move over) and decline the plastic bag. When you look at the scope of the venture, yes, it seems a little hopeless, but we have to start somewhere! HugsMarlynnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14130652052406504185noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14359045.post-61429067631282851282011-04-15T20:19:22.890-05:002011-04-15T20:19:22.890-05:00Great suggestion!Great suggestion!Theresa MacNaughtonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16034781876024849974noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14359045.post-26514076413288927282011-04-15T16:10:27.826-05:002011-04-15T16:10:27.826-05:00I just came back from recycling bags of papers (ne...I just came back from recycling bags of papers (newspapers, junk mail and such)...I marveled that were so many bags since I find so many uses for security envies that come in the mail and other paper too!<br />Great info and suggestions E...it is little by little that big changes come about.<br />Here Here for Mother Earth and our precious planet<br />Hope you are safe today...the noon weather report sounded VERY stormy out your way<br />oxo~*~Patty Shttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03953758102509632020noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14359045.post-34030126080343639002011-04-15T09:54:33.968-05:002011-04-15T09:54:33.968-05:00HInt: It doesn't help to buy dozens of reusabl...HInt: It doesn't help to buy dozens of reusable shopping bags if you always forget to take them to the store with you!! =(<br /><br />Great post E -- and I am looking forward to sunshine so I can hang laundry out on the clothesline again!Diannehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09657202600364368434noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14359045.post-61607704803774316372011-04-15T06:40:04.331-05:002011-04-15T06:40:04.331-05:00Ok, here goes.. we recycle all glass, plastic, alu...Ok, here goes.. we recycle all glass, plastic, aluminium, newspaper, cardboard and have compost x 2. All lights have energy saving things (DH turns all lights off) and we live with candles unless you work at a desk - lucky me. We also have solar power, rainwater tank and take our own bags when shopping. I think I have 50 in the boot of the car (diesel and we share driving). Showers have timers and if we go over the 3mins. DH yells!! Working on teenagers to make the switch to vintage rather than shop bought? But that is a work in progress.sandra dehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13976065716935953253noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14359045.post-63524795794343501772011-04-14T18:17:42.573-05:002011-04-14T18:17:42.573-05:00I save all of our #5 caps and bring them to Aveda....I save all of our #5 caps and bring them to Aveda...they make their bottles or maybe just the caps for their bottles from the recycled caps. It's amazing how many I accumulate even though I am conscious of what I buy....not that I don't ever make poor choices. I do...then wish I hadn't. <br />We have curbside reclining for metal, glass, paper and #1 and #2 plastics. Our environmental center takes #5 yogurt and sour cream containers only. All my bags going here and there drive DH nuts but I know it's worth the extra effort.<br />Also if you wear eyeglasses or hearing aids and are no longer in need of them for whatever reason most "Lions Club" organizations or a local co-op will take them to pass along to others that can use them. At least here in MN this is the case.Hallehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01473540669635905535noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14359045.post-3030005015454061452011-04-14T17:46:41.293-05:002011-04-14T17:46:41.293-05:00It's so not being a hippy, so much as totally ...It's so not being a hippy, so much as totally caring about where we are at. I mean, we Come From the earth, and we live on it and in it. I feel so confused why people cannot be bothered to do the simplest of things.<br /><br />We have a huge recycling center here, but people just Don't Use it because it's not picked up at their house. You have to *gasp* take it there yourself.<br />Yes, it is a super inconvenience, but <br />knowing the center is on my way into town means that i am a total lazy jerkface if I cannot even drop my recycles off there.<br /><br />And people act like the only reason to ride a bike or the bus is that you don't have a car.<br />Not so.<br />I have one, and it works just fine - but if I can do what I need to do without it, heck.<br />I've got time.<br /><br />Xx, <br />AmyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14359045.post-68991651207455170452011-04-14T14:38:11.427-05:002011-04-14T14:38:11.427-05:00You and Hippy Earth Day will be the same age then ...You and Hippy Earth Day will be the same age then right? 40? ;)Donna:https://www.blogger.com/profile/15748497898589659292noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14359045.post-53271433959631680742011-04-14T13:10:16.035-05:002011-04-14T13:10:16.035-05:00Oh but my hippy days were the best... but thankful...Oh but my hippy days were the best... but thankfully I did move on past them unlike some bald men with pony tails (why do they do that)?? LOL I drink tap water... does that count for any Brownie points? Probably not... ;)voodoo vixenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05969587296959836879noreply@blogger.com