Light Green Stairs

Month: August 2007

  • Green buildings

    You can visit the U.S. Green Building Council website at http://www.usgbc.org The Green Building Council is working to change the way buildings are designed, built and operated. They award LEED certifications based on those achievements. Check them out.

  • Two months of bags for husband, kitty and me

    I didn’t realize how many plastic bags I was using until I started saving them. I have a small family: husband, kitty and me. I don’t shop a lot. The bags in the photo represent only two months of bags I received when making purchases. These bags were given to…

  • Using the reusables

    I’ve now made two successful shopping trips with my reusable bags. Both times, my purchases easily fit into the three ECO bags I got from reusablebags.com. And carrying them on my shoulders was much easier than trying to balance seven different plastic bags in my hands. You may be wondering…

  • Bins at apartments

    Unfortunately I wasn’t home when the post office tried to deliver my reusable shopping bags Saturday. Now I’m doomed to wait in the always over-long line at my local post office. But on to other things. The property manager for my apartments called me back as she promised she would.…

  • Shopping baggies

    As promised, I have found some reusable shopping bags to take to the store. They are machine-washable and the description claims they hold more than the usual plastic shopping bag. I ordered them from www.reusablebags.com. Just go to Shopping Bags / Basic Tote. I selected the ECOBAGS Recycled Cotton Tote…

  • Recycle day

    It was time for my first trip to the recycling bins. Remember, my apartments don’t have them, so it’s a semi-short drive down the road. When I got to the drop-off, I saw an immediate problem. I thought I could just directly dump my recyclables into the bins, but the…

  • Or better yet

    The really sad thing about plastic bags is that they can harm marine mammals and turtles. I saw a plastic bag floating in the lake at my apartments just a few days ago. There are hundreds of turtles living in that lake. Personally, I like turtles and don’t want to…

  • Things to do with plastic bags

    Plastic bags. I’ve been feeling the guilt over them enough to start collecting all of them to be reused by a local family business. Of course, if you don’t know anyone who can reuse the bags, you can always take them back to the recycling drop-offs at most grocery stores.…

  • Follow up to “Junk mail blahs”

    I received an email from Live Earth on their recommendation for getting rid of junk mail. It’s 1.888.5OPT.OUT