reduce, reuse, recycle

Yes it is, it’s a magic number
Because two times three is six
And three times six is eighteen
And the eighteenth letter in the alphabet is R
We’ve got three R’s we’re going to talk about today
We’ve got to learn to
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Well, if you’re going to the market to buy some juice
You’ve got to bring your own bags and you learn to reduce your waste
And if your brother or your sister’s got some cool clothes
You could try them on before you buy some more of those
Reuse, we’ve got to learn to reuse
And if the first two R’s don’t work out
And if you’ve got to make some trash
Don’t throw it out
Recycle, we’ve got to learn to recycle,
We’ve got to learn to
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Reduce, Reuse, Recycle
Because three it’s a magic number

Jack Johnson

Have I told you how much I like his work?

and his grandson came by to rake up leaves. They left them in small piles around the yard. B and I were curious why they didn’t pick them up.

His mother laughed and said that Fort Worth does not pick up leaves any longer. It is a city ordinance that they be mulched into the soil or put into compost heaps.

I may complain alot about where I live (oops that’s B, not me) but really I do live around like minded/hearted people here.

Maybe it’s time I bloom where I am planted.

this challenge today.

Here’s your chance to take one small step that will help protect the environment, save energy and save money. The Change A Light, Change The World campaign your chance to take one small step that will help protect the environment, save energy and save money. The Change A Light, Change The World campaign encourages Americans to replace a conventional bulb or fixture in the home or workplace with a compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb that has earned the government’s Energy Star label for energy efficiency.

If every American home changed just five of its most-used light fixtures to Energy Star bulbs, each family would save about $60 every year in energy costs — and together we’d save about $6.5 billion each year in energy costs and prevent greenhouse-gas emissions equivalent to those from more than 8 million cars.

Energy Star qualified bulbs and fixtures use one-third the energy of traditional models, last up to 10 times longer and reduce utility costs. In fact, consumers can save up to $30 in utility costs over the lifetime of one bulb. And the less energy we use, the less energy electric utilities must generate, and less demand means fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

These bulbs are readily available at home improvement stores, discount stores and many other retail outlets. And current bulbs are much brighter, easier on the eyes and less expensive than previous versions of the CFL. encourages Americans to replace a conventional bulb or fixture in the home or workplace with a compact fluorescent light (CFL) bulb that has earned the government’s Energy Star label for energy efficiency.

If every American home changed just five of its most-used light fixtures to Energy Star bulbs, each family would save about $60 every year in energy costs — and together we’d save about $6.5 billion each year in energy costs and prevent greenhouse-gas emissions equivalent to those from more than 8 million cars.

Energy Star qualified bulbs and fixtures use one-third the energy of traditional models, last up to 10 times longer and reduce utility costs. In fact, consumers can save up to $30 in utility costs over the lifetime of one bulb. And the less energy we use, the less energy electric utilities must generate, and less demand means fewer greenhouse gas emissions.

These bulbs are readily available at home improvement stores, discount stores and many other retail outlets. And current bulbs are much brighter, easier on the eyes and less expensive than previous versions of the CFL.

I made my pledge. I hope you will too!

according to a new EPA report which states that Americans are recycling more and throwing away less. Agency Administrator Stephen L. Johnson, speaking on Oct. 23 at the National Recycling Coalition Conference in Atlanta , announced that U.S. residents recycled 32 percent of their waste in 2005. Including composting, Americans recycled 79 million tons, representing a 2-percent increase from 2004 and a huge jump from 16 percent in 1990.
Source: Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)

If everyone in the US was able to reduce their 10.8 pieces of junk mail received each week, we could save nearly 100 million trees each year.

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gave me a pair of almost new tan Ferragamo Boutique shoes that are a little tight in the arch area. Do you think I could get them stretched or should I pass them on?

I drink it all day long. Last night B brought me a stainless steel designer thermos and travel cups for when I am on the road making sales calls or making those threatened photographic road trips I have been talking about.

He found them while helping a friend move. The friend didn’t want them anymore.

A friend is getting a new sofa today and wanted to get rid of her heavy glass 2 tiered coffee table. I gladly said yes. It is wonderful!

My entire living room suite didn’t cost me a penny. The beautiful blue sofa was left by a neighbor in Dallas when he moved to Kansas. The gray wing backed reading chair was from one of B’s friends. The beveled glass top end tables were a gift a neighbor in Dallas found dumpster diving – now with a matching coffee table. The bookcase,lamp table and file cabinet (tv stand) are from B’s mother’s office she just moved.

The dining set chairs have a blue(same shade as the sofa),cream, gray and mauve design. We found it at an estate sale (table with 2 leaves and 6 chairs) for $75. My wood and wrought iron bakers rack was from another estate sale for $50. The beautifully framed botanical prints in the dining room were sitting by the trash in Dallas.

It is amazing how well all of the pieces go together. :)

Many years ago while being green I adopted using canvas and nylon mesh bags to use as shopping bags. It felt really good to do my part to save the environment.

Sadly,I have to admit I got lazy and kept forgetting those bags at home. The good news is I have found them and put them in my car so there is no longer an excuse to use paper or plastic bags.

I am begging you please stop using disposable plastic containers!

Plastics are forever.

If plastic doesn’t biodegrade, what does it do? It photo-degrades – a process in which it is broken down by sunlight into smaller and smaller pieces, all of which are still plastic polymers, eventually becoming individual molecules of plastic, still too tough for anything to digest.

For the last 50-odd years, every piece of plastic that has made it from our shores to the Pacific Ocean has been breaking down and accumulating in the central Pacific gyre. Oceanographers like Curtis Ebbesmeyer, the world’s leading flotsam expert, refer to it as the greatPacific Garbage Patch.