It seems everywhere you go, you hear people talking about "Going Green". You can't turn on the news or even go to the grocery store without seeing or hearing about it. But, what do you do to help the environment?
I'm going to be doing a giveaway to one lucky person on my blog at the End of Wednesday (Earth Day). You will be receiving one of my fabulous new vintage NATURE paper packs that you can use in your art projects, collage, or scrapbooking! What a better way to recycle than to use recycled materials in your art work?!
To enter, please leave a comment with what you are doing to help the environment! I will choose one person at random from everyone who leaves a comment. Check back on the 23rd to find out who won, so I can contact you and send you your goodies!
I burn beeswax candles instead of regular ones :) They are the most eco friendly!
ReplyDeleteEvery year my husband and I donate to the Arbor Day Foundation, in return they send us trees to plant, great way to be eco-friendly, donate to a good cause and landscape your yard while giving song birds, shelter and food!!
ReplyDeleteI will be going to cloth napkins rather than paper towels.
ReplyDeleteI am going to carpool to work with my boyfriend!
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I have not owned a car since 1992 (quite a feat considering I grew up in suburbia) and I hope you do not mind me saying I have eliminated all paper based feminine hygiene products from my life!
ReplyDeleteI use lavender sachets instead of mothballs for my linen closet and make my own lunches with reusable napkins!
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Well my daughter rented her books this semester instead of buying and for each book rented they planted a tree in her honor so far 4 trees and still counting she is just finishing her first year of college.
ReplyDeleteWe have always recycled, but now that I am on Etsy I am beginning to knit with eco friendly yarns. Once I use up the yarn I already have, I will only buy eco yarns. I also have a garden, and I believe that taking care of my plants is giving back to our Mother, the Earth.
ReplyDeleteI live in a very green area - we recycle, use canvas shopping bags, walk instead of driving when possible, things like that. I know I could be doing more though.
ReplyDeleteWhen my car died in the fall, my fiance and I decided not to replace it. We walk, take public transportation, and once a month or so use zipcars.
ReplyDeleteFor our wedding invitations, we are handmaking our own recycled paper out of junk mail.
We use cloth napkins instead of paper, bring our lunches to work in reusable containers, buy organic food, recycle, compost our food waste, use 'green' cleaning supplies.
I do most of my crafting with recycled materials. Right now I am making a rag rug with some of my worn-out clothes.
ReplyDeleteI also have a compost worm bin where I put food and paper scraps, and then the worms decompose them. I love it!
Living Green: a ton of things! We recycle everything possible, I refashion vintage baubles, fabrics and buttons into jewelry and other wearables, have a healthy compost pile and organic garden, etc. etc.!
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I have been making my soon pants and shorts from my husband's and my old shirts...check it out:
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As I read the comments, I know that already I am doing much--recycling, cloth napkins, composting, fragrance-free laundry products, using less heating & cooling. But there is still more to do. I am serioulsy working on growing some of my own food and buying local, "organic" food. Trucking food across country (and countries) is very costly to the environment. I also plan to occasionlly educate through my blog.
ReplyDeleteFor one, I work in habitat restoration. I spent all day today removing blackberry bushes from a riverbank!
ReplyDeleteAfter that, I recycle, take the bus all over, buy as much as I can from the local farmer's market and carpool to work.
I like to go to places like the goodwill and garage sales and find jewelry to upcycle.
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I walk everywhere as much as possible. Not only is it better for the earth, it's healthier too.
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ReplyDeleteI use reusable sandwich bags and a lunch tote. Everyone compliments me on how cute they are and I love it because I don't have to buy baggies every month. WIN WIN!
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3 times a year to honor my dad I have trees planted in Yosemite by The Arbor Society.
ReplyDeletei never use paper cups and incurage my coleagues to do this as well. i recently bought trash bags that are perishable and from now on they will be the only ones i will use.
ReplyDeleteI'm lighting candles instead of having my lights on. Opening doors instead of running the air.
ReplyDeleteI also do the collection, differentiated, paper, plastic, glass, wet and dry ...
ReplyDeleterecycle everything we can ...
I'm using reusable totes at the store instead of plastic bags, recycling and trying to produce less waste!
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Yay! Thanks for promoting earth day and going green. I am new to the green revolution so I've started by taking baby steps. At the moment I'm working on eliminating plastic bags. I have tote bags I take to the grocery store and I bought some reuseable produce bags. I was going through so many each month it was out of control, now I'm feeling much greener! Thanks again, vancy31[at]gmail[dot]com
ReplyDeleteI recycle cans and compost my leaves. thanks jacquecurl@gmail.com
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ReplyDeleteTo do my part for the environment, I've just been certified as an Organic Crop Inspector.. we act as support for transitioning farms as well. I'm a chef at a restaurant that has 30 farmers on board.. we focus on local and organic product as much as possible! I also use reuseable totes for all shopping and only buy clothing second hand.. the list goes one & on.. :D Happy almost earth day!
-Benny
I have a garden and yard, an Earth-friendly place, using no chemicals, with many places to encourage the birds, butterflies, and small animals to vist, gather and prosper....(to maintain a safe and healthy area for wildlife is my goal) I love photography and art, so the giveaway nature papers would be treasures for my heart! Sometimes I look out my window and see such a wonderful variety of creatures and critters, and plants and flowers, a peaceful heavenly garden.
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katie, I ordered cute sandwich bags from wastenotsaks on etsy, so I don't have to use plastic sandwich bags. also have eco friendly totes for grocery. and...i recycle wine bottles into cheese platters and sell them on my site :)
ReplyDeleteI'm turning my yard into a natural habitat. I love vintage images too! Check out my art..
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I walk instead of drive to the neighborhood shops, pay bills online (saves paper) and turn the kids favorite outgrown t-shirts into pillows.
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ReplyDeleteDH and I use cloth napkins instead of paper ones and shop rags instead of paper towels.
We use graywater from the shower instead of tap water on the herb garden. We are looking into diverting the washing machine graywater to use for watering the front lawn.
We reuse plastic bags several times before recycling them.
We recycle paper, cardboard, glass, metal and plastic in our city's curbside recycling program and bring household batteries to Whole Foods for recycling instead of throwing them in the trash.
We buy organic produce from a local farmer's market. Dried beans, grains and nuts we buy in bulk from a natural food co-op. We avoid the supermaket (or "the corporate store," as we call it) as much as possible.
We walk more and drive less.
We have replaced most of our incandescent bulbs with CFLs.
We bring our own cloth bags when we go shopping.
We turn off our computers at night and unplug them.
During the winter holidays, we send e-cards we design ourselves instead of paper cards in the mail.
I make handbags out of completely reused or recycled fabrics. Even the thread is from a factory floor! The left over spools, not completely finished but too short to continue to use are gathered into the trash. I have a friend that gave me a huge box of them. All of my bags and dolls are sewn with the thread. Fabrics and embellishments are all recycled or scraps. I get scraps of fabric from a furniture shop, the little cuts they used to throw out are now being used in my projects. I also use them for the children's art classes I teach.
ReplyDeleteI help the environment by using fabric reuseable bags, and I recycle everything and I stoped using plastic throw away water bottles and now refill them instead of buying new ones.
ReplyDeleteWell first can I say what a great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI am a veggie, I try to recycle as much as I can,buy the least amount of packaging I can, being a artist/crafter I reuse every scrap of paper that comes my way!
Katie...great giveaway...and beautiful blog. I will be walking, which i love to do. and, if i have time after painting, planting my herbs.
ReplyDeleteAt the moment we are really trying to cut down on what we throw away to stop things ending up in landfill - reusing glass bottles and tin cans as vases, composting food and buying food with barely any packaging (I've taken to leaving unwanted packaging at the supermarket checkout - they might take a hint!)
ReplyDeleteWe recycle and on earth day we pick up all the garbage on our street.
ReplyDeleteI am kind of an eco nerd. But the big ones are, buying local, organic and handmade when at all possible. Just saying no to plastic. And being crafty with reusing things in often different ways than originally intended.
ReplyDeleteIn my etsy shop, SallyRags.etsy.com, I create rugs, potholders, trivets, bowl, etc from recycled fabric. At home I use only rechargeable batteries.
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