After reading this blog post
here, I felt really inspired to
do something. Not just sit around and
say I would do something.
The problem is, however, that we are already quite environmental friendly. I try to buy the larger size boxes and recycle as much as possible (in fact, our recycling bin is full whereas our regular bin is only half full!), we have short showers, we don't have air con or fans or heating, we don't have the lights on during the day or even at night in all the rooms. We try to support local and independent businesses. We don't have a dryer, or run our washing machine on the hot cycles. I always turn it down to a "short" cycle, and run a full load. Our fish tanks are all on timers to have the lights and extra what-nots turn off at 9pm, and back on at 8am.
There are a few things, however, once I got past the obvious choices. We
do use too much paper towel, and we go through tissues like nobody's business. Our toilet and shower could be
more environmental friendly, I could run less water for the dishes, I eat too much take-away and spend too much time driving places.
I'm not trying to say I'll do all of this straight away; not even all at once. But if we can get rid of the paper towel and tissue we should be halfway there; if we can shake the take-away habit or drive just one day less, we'll be good. Of course, there are times when I need to drive places, when you have too much stuff to carry to feasibly walk. But I am only 10 minutes, if that, from the nearest library/shops, the Boy works literally 10 minutes walk from here and my sister is only 5 minutes away.
What're you going to do?
