Three Gifts for Mother Earth 13 February, 2008
“So my challenge to you is to choose three items or actions that you currently have in your life that you’ll modify or give up completely.” from Rhonda’s Blog.
I couldn’t choose 3 from the top five personal waste items list, so have come up with my own challenges…
My gifts for 2008 and beyond are:
1. Remember my re-usable shopping bags, and to make or buy some vegie bags like Mummabare’s or these.
2. Less Garbage: Reduce the amount of packaged foods eaten - jars and tins mainly - so that we’re producing less ‘recycling’. We’re currently lasting a month between dump trips (we take our own refuse to the Waste Transfer Station), but perhaps we could last 5 or 6 weeks instead?
3. Standby Power: switch off appliances at the wall when not in use. I’ve tried to implement this at home, but we still have little LEDs scattered around the place most nights - so room to improve there!
I hope that some of you might choose three gifts for our planet too!
For the record… Four months on:
- I bought some of Mummabare’s bags
- our rubbish is going every six weeks and I’ve cut out a couple of tinned items etc.
- I’ve remembered some standby items, but can still improve on this goal