So thoughts on my mind today, at t - 22 hours until good-bye time. I'm trying my best to keep my mind off B running off so that I won't focus on how strange it's going to be.
The first thought was once again brought to me by Auntie A. Again it has been mentioned..."I try to go green, but it's so much more expensive." Let me say at the beginning of this that I am not trying to tell anyone what to do, whether it involves eating habits, voting practices or shopping tendencies. I definitely don't presume to tell parents how to spend their money. But what I am trying to do, with this blog and hopefully with Gracefully Green as soon as it is up and running, is to get others to think about their habits, and, more specifically, how looking at our accepted practices through the lens of faith might cause a change in our accepted habits.
"Going green" doesn't always have to be expensive, although, yes, if all that changes is that we replace our cleaning supplies with green supplies and conventional meats with free-range. The idea of going green is that it's an entire shift in the way of thinking...that our imprint on the earth is reduced. So if we buy organic cotton, we also reduce the amount of new clothing we buy in general. But the point is that we do all that we can, even if it's a slow going process. My clothing habit is certainly a slow going process. But the little changes are fairly straight forward. Turn off the lights. Unplug your appliances. Take a cloth bag to the grocery store (or lots of them). Dig up a little patch of earth for some veggies. Shop the farmers' market for local produce.
Speaking of cloth grocery bags, this site is another topic on my mind, and I wanted to share with you. It's a mission to eliminate the use of plastic bags (and hopefully paper, too) in grocery stores. Anyone who's shopped much outside this country knows that free bags are not a given. Why should they be here? This site has instructions for making your own morsbag, but more than that, it's about coming together socially to make the bags and then distribute them to those who do not yet have reusable bags. Now, I have no sewing machine so I can't really make one, but the instructions seem simple enough, and now if I can just find someone to make one from my old t-shirts...
And now I have class, which I need to have on my mind, considering the amount of work I have over the next few weeks. But the goal is to get through tonight and tomorrow morning and then start focusing on my workload...
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I hear what you are saying. We believe that as Christians we have a duty to care for God's creation. I've heard Jeff say the very same thing about reducing finger prints left on this earth. We try and do as much as we can to take care of what we've been given. It is a fun thing too to see the kiddos get excited about "goin' green."
I think reusable grocery bags is a great idea. but, we go shopping without the reusable bag sometimes to get free trash bags. If we're buying plastic trash bags at the store and using cloth shopping bags it's about the same as just putting your groceries in the paper and plastic and reusing the paper and plastic. I wonder if there's a compostable trash bag. ?? (I guess paper is)??
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