Day 274 - 2010

My worms are famous! Well sort of. A friend of a friend contacted me to start up her own vermi-composting bin. I was only too happy to oblige to pass on some of our red wigglers. They are amazing creatures and do the world a lot of good. With winter coming I need to get our bin going again too.

Day 248 - 2010

I'm fianlly getting around to sewing the edges of the bum wipes so they won't fray.

Day 164 - 2010

Using our new solar powered clothes dryer. Finally. We have had it for 2 years now and never used it.

Hey - the grass got cut! Amazing what a difference that can make!

Day 68 - 2010

Our first view of spring - in the school gardens. Exciting!

Day 35 - 2010

Something you use every day.

I recently got myself an electric toothbrush. I had been putting it off for a while because of A) the expense and B) because of the environmental issues. When I thought about the environment though I realized that I'd actually be putting less waste into the landfill this way. I do still have to charge it up but I'm trying to do it minimally and only at night - every few nights. I really like the timer feature. I know how long to brush my teeth and I find I am running the water a lot less.

Day 254 - Friday, September 11, 2009

Garbage day was pushed back this week because of Labour Day - this is all the recycling we brought back from TBay. For all that I complain about how little we do - we do more here, and this seems like the least we can do.

Day 161 - Wednesday, June 10, 2009

We walked by the store after school to pick up our milk for the week. I'm loving the convenience (and "green-ness") of the jugs. I just wish they weren't so heavy!

Day 137 - Sunday, May 17, 2009

Off on a milk run. We switched to milk jugs at Mac's so that we don't have bags anymore. We usually go about once a week to get two jugs as we are starting to use the third at home.

Day 127 - Thursday, May 7, 2009

Garbage/ Recycling day - a must to see the trucks go by.

Day 106 - Thursday, April 16, 2009

Marlee, Levi and I spent some time outdoors enjoying the sunshine and warm weather and decided to do some litter pickup along the way to the park. Of course that took longer then expected (Marlee got quite involved and kept finding more and more), so we just quickly picnicked and then had to go get Carter. Amazing what people just throw away...

Day 37 - Friday, February 6, 2009

The kids received a plastic ziplock bag from school yesterday to start their "Boomerang Waste" program today. The concept is to bring home any waste from their lunches so that the school is litter-free. Great idea overall but it's a shame it has to be done at all - we already find it quite easy to be litterless [More ramblings on this here].