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gonna buy biodegradable airsoft bb’s next time!!!
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Feel very zen-like.
 "It's an ongoing and a rewarding process."
How I did it: Joined a food co-op. Started eating more local food. Bought a Prius. I am currently at 40 MPG and increasing this number constantly as the car is brand new. Am growing some of my own food. This consists of mostly pots with tomatoes, onions, herbs and basically whatever I can fit in a small suburban yard. I am going to do some canning and freezing this fall to preserve locally grown produce. I am also composting more of our yard waste and vegetable waste. We are lucky to have a city that makes recycling fairly easy and have been regularly recycling everything possible. Lessons & tips: Utilize your local famer's market. Try to buy food that is in-season and/or grown locally. You can usually find produce, meat, eggs, milk and cheeses. Some areas have local farms that, for an upfront fee, will deliver bushels or half-bushels of food during the growing season. The growing season runs from Spring 'til Fall in most locales. Walk or ride a bike whenever possible. Recycle and reuse as much as you can. Resources: The internet is a great resource. Reading "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle" by Barbara Kingsolver encouraged me to eat local foods and try to grow more of my own.
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I need to really work on this. I love my fiancee to death, but she is a bad influence on me! We have been wasting food lately and she loves to throw out shopping bags instead of reusing them. We also need to drive less – she goes into autopilot and then we either end up running in circles or taking the long way somewhere. I also am not being disaplined. I have reusable bags but always forget to take them with me to the store. I buy food and then not use it before it goes bad. We’ll get better, though. Together. At least I have gotten her to recycle. We also don’t start a load of wash unless the washer is full (it helps being charged 75cents a load) and we take shorter showers (having twenty minutes until you have to be at work puts pep in your step as well).
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I started composting today! I also grow my own food, stopped using plastic water bottles, and use CFL’s :) I am working my way up!
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3 weeks ago
Recently I’ve really begun to think about purchasing side of things. This was partially due to a friend who lives more simply and greener than I. It was brought to my attention the cd’s, books and magazines I collect not only disrupt the simple life, but the green life as well. Not that I will ever be totally green on these things, but I can make minor changes to meet the goals of being green and living simply.
That being said my latest purchases have been to download the mp3’s, legally and paid for I might add. I now have added more to my collection without adding to the clutter of having extra items laying around or having the objects or trash of the purchase laying around. It makes me wonder if we all did this for the next month how many resources would be saved in the manufacturing of cd’s, their cases, and the paper products of the cases.
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Fluoride does not build enamel, it mottles it. And fluoride has never been proven to have any health benefits, and is in fact more toxic than lead, and only slightly less toxic than arsenic.
If you brush your teeth with toothpaste containing fluoride, you are in effect putting an insecticide or a rat poison into your mouth.
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We are using bamboo kitchen utensils. Bamboo is actually a grass and is a high yield crop.
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