Margo1972 whole body aches; think I came down with something. dammit.

make a smaller ecological footprint

Worth doing!

Simple changes at first  — 2 months ago

I’ve committed to commuting by bike 2 – 3 times per week.
I’ve gotten a plot in my local community garden and I’m growing some veggies and herbs.
I remember to unplug or shut things off.
I bring my own containers and reuse them (coffee mug, travel mug, Tupperware/lunch/bento box, cloth shopping bags, etc.)
As my light bulbs died I replaced with CLF type bulbs.
I look around for other means to reduce my footprint. I track my progress via some websites in order to encourage other people that it can be done and not in some crazy, extremist way, but just simple practical changes. I’m on http://www.makemesustainable.com and also on the ZeroFootPrint site as well.

May 06, 03:22PM PDT 5 cheers

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atmosphear

Way to go!

I am anxious of getting back to commuting by bike. I had a ligament torn off my thumb in February and got rid of the plaster some two weeks ago, so it has been impossible for me to bike to work, but now both my thumb is healing and the weather is getting so sweet that I really want to hop on and ride to work.

Last year there was only two weeks between May and December that I didn’t commute even once by bike. One of them I thought I was too busy and the other I had been with fever. This year I reach for even better results.

Otherwise I am doing also the extremist part by dumpster diving those veggies and fruit that have traveled thousands of miles. But that’s just me. :)

May 09, 06:48AM PDT | Respond to this 1 cheer

Margo1972 whole body aches; think I came down with something. dammit.

Ow ow ow ow ow ow ow! Torn ligament OW!

Sorry, I had a thumb injury at one point that mysteriously arrived and just as mysteriously went away after several months (and I’m not complaining that it just disappeared again). You have my sympathies on that.

but please be careful about the dumpster diving for produce – I heard an interview once where supermarket chains have a practice of dumping chlorine bleach or other chemicals on their extra produce that they throw out, to discourage people fromdoing just that. please be careful, okay?

May 09, 08:33AM PDT | Thread | Respond to this

atmosphear

Dumpster diving has been safe

Thanks for your sympathy. I was thumbless for three months and you can bet I was happy to get the plaster off. I needed a surgery, otherwise my left thumb would have been useless for the rest of my life.

At least in Finland everything has been going swell: I haven’t had any bad experiences. Besides not being malicious, I bet that Finnish shopkeepers should afraid of poisoning people. I will still heed your warnings.

Fortunately at least chlorine smells strongly so it would be easy to avoid. Other types of more harmful chemicals then again might be completely odorless. I don’t know of rat poisons, though.

I get only packaged or washable products. Bread, fruit and vegetables.

May 09, 09:20AM PDT | Respond to this


 

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