One bag at a time

My sister is saving the planet. She grows her own food, buys organic and recycles/composts any thing she can. And when she goes to the grocery store she makes the bagger pack her stuff in as few bags as possible. Thus she saves about two bags per visit. Two visits per week and 52 weeks in a year. That's 208 bags a year or 15768 bags over an average life time. That's quite a stack of bags (paper or plastic).

Of course she has now gone to reusable bags so now she has the potential of saving 31536 bags. So you see the little things that people do to help the environment can really add up.

Recycle, reuse, etc. Put fluorescent lights in your house and turn the TV down to save electricity. Drive an economy car to save gas a turn the heat down to save energy.

And if you are really serious about saving the planet try no-cycling. When ever possible if you don't need it don't buy it. Don't use it and don't reuse it. Don't recycle. That takes way more energy than No-cycle.

Try to get by with less. Save it for the other guy. It is important that you do not waste what you have and if it is not really necessary then don't have it in the first place. Then I'll know you are really trying to save mother earth from yourself.

OWL

Feb. 12, 2010