BronxGirl1's Blog

Tell me how to stop junk mail. I'm all for that, but swallowing Al's koolaid ain't one of them.

MissNancy - tell us more, tell us what we exactly take for granted in our cramped spaces. I am not being sarcastic - I want to know from someone who lives it - I almost never have lites on when the a/c is on, sorry I need the a/c for health reasons, I have been carrying a canvas bag for shopping, and when I do get store bags - whih I do - I use them for poopy patrol. I was told burying dog poo was bad. I have my actual "postage stamp" size garden for herbs and some small vegies, I reuse everything possible for other uses. I give clothes away for people without. I try not to waste water, shorter showers, I use washer rince water for plants, I hang my clothes no dryer. I recycle. Help.... we need to get the message out and the answers to the people.

I recycle aluminum and scrap metal. I have the energy efficient light bulbs where I can use them. All of my lightbulbs are 60 watts or less. I give my old clothes and furniture to charities. Trash is a big issue for me as there is no recycle place here for it, but we are allowed to burn 2 times a week. I guess the little bit of smoke that it would make would be better then sitting in a land fill for years and years.

I think burning garbage is probably much worse than burying it in a properly built landfill.

yeah bronxy if you blogged the entire thing you coulda said it on the news itself

Using the new super low watt, long life fluorescent light bulbs is something we can all do easily that will have a big impact. I do almost all my food and house shopping at Costcos and they do not use bags. Burning garbage is a bad idea and recycling everything we can is something that we should all be doing. Drive as little as possible and use mass transit whenever you can. Walking and biking are not only good for the environment, but good for our bodies as well. It is true that if we all do a few little things, it will make a huge difference.

Daniel

Daniel - this is exactly what I was trying to get people to do - talk about what they do to save - and you brought up the very good point as far as not too much driving (Gas waste) and walking and biking which is two-fold. Thanks - any more clues for us will be very much appreciated. Thanks....

this is nothing new i remember as a kid in the 60-70 give a hoot don't polulte. and the indian that had a tear in his eye when he turned his head to look at the camera after getting hit in the leg with trash someone thru out the window of a car on the highway.Nobody beleaved it then and that is still the problem. Back then my mom instilled the polute thing and my dad worked for a utiity (gas). there were stickers on the lighting recepticals " When not in use turn off the juice."Those values i passed on till this day.If we started taking it more sirious then it would be secound nature now. We tend to be slowly destoing our own planet.It's a shame. Specialy because there are more people in the world now.Everybody just thought it was a bunch of high hippies.

I try and think green. I always recycle paper.
cans.plastic.etc. I'm trying to get into the
habit of thinking. It's an idea that should be
on everyone's agenda.