Happy Earth Day! This should not be a once a year celebration, you need to be kinder to the earth each and every day.  It’s the little things that add up to make a difference.
Here’s a list of a few things we do in our household to help make the world last a little longer.
1. We use cloth bags to carry groceries and shopping. Kudos to the Superstore in the Maritimes, beginning today they will charge 5 cents for each plastic bag.
2. We recycle cardboard, newspapers, tin cans and what ever other items our local commission will accept.
3. We compost our food scraps.  A Lee Valley stainless steel compost pail sits on my kitchen counter. In warm weather the pail is dumped into one of the two composters we keep in our yard.  During the winter months, when the composters freeze over, the pail is dumped and sealed into larger pails that originally contained kitty litter.
4. Our beloved kitty Porsche does her duty in a pan of ground wheat rather than commercially produced kitty litter.  To read more about the benefits of ground wheat read my Feb. 4 entry Even Kitties can be green
5. We use cloth napkins rather than paper.
6. I cook from scratch whenever possible. Processed food has little nutritional value and is much more expensive than home made.
7. I make my own laundry detergent and use simple ingredients such as vinegar, peroxide and baking soda for cleaning detergents. For more information see my original entry ”we’re getting cleaner”.  For other environmental friendly cleaners check out this entry at Simple Green, Frugal Co-op
8. We use racks for drying our clothes.
9. The majority of our clothing is purchased in consignment or thrift shops.
10. We lowered the settings on our hot water tank.
None of these cost a lot of money nor do we “suffer” in anyway. It’s easy once you give it some thought. But most of all, we talk about, sharing ideas with family, friends and readers.
To echo my grand-daughter Emma……..”Help Save the Earth”. This is the poster she placed in the local post office.
Dianne , Emma is a cutie. I too follow many of your suggestions except the cloth napkins. I have tons of them but hubby says no more to those.
Very good suggestions. I make a “go green apron” which is basically a towel cut in half with ties to tie on the apron and it can be used as a towel that is right with you in the kitchen as you wash your hands, etc. instead of using paper towels. Thanks. Linda
My cute meter just exploded. You owe me a new one.
Hey Linda, just this morning I was admiring your “go green apron” on your blog. BTW I posted about your cute princess denim tote bag. I’m keeping my fingers crossed.