Life, Love, & Laundry — go green

This month we are taking on a pretty big change for our family but it is one we feel is important.  We are going to be giving up plastic baggies in our everyday life.  Most of us call them zip lock bags from the brand name, sort of like Kleenex or Kraft Dinner.  This may seem to some of you like not that difficult to do while for others you may be thinking there is no way you could give up zip lock bags.  This is a very big deal for us, as we were very much a baggie family....

Composting.... Generations ago everyone composted. It was not something people even had to think of doing, they just did it. If you had organic waste, you had a compost pile.  These days, it seems like the "new" thing to do. There are probably millions of people worldwide composting already, with millions looking into it. (These are my estimations, I did not get them from anyone but in my head...hahaha) There are so many different ways to work composting into your life, from under the counter worm compost bins, to outside small bucket composting to large pile composting. What will work for...

One of the more noted green movements of lately is the move to remove plastic straws from restaurants.  I got thinking about it and McDonalds restaurant has served over 300 billion customers since its inception.  According to research it takes over 200 years for a plastic straw to decompose, so that means there is easily billions of straws around the world in our landfills.  I always had a hard time grasping the difference between a million of something and a billion.  Then I read that 1 million seconds is roughly 12 days, whereas, 1 billion seconds is 31.7 years.  That...

We are beginning a new monthly blog entry based on our family and business taking the journey one step at a time in going green.  Our planet is clearly suffering the effects of global warming and we believe the solution is us the people, not the government or business, but those of us who have the power to change how our government and business operates.  The journey we plan on taking is every month we aim to incorporate a new practice into our lives/business that takes us towards being more environmentally focused.  We encourage you to not only follow our journey,...

I spent the weekend with my three buddies at the Washademoak Lake a few weeks ago.  We had a great time hanging out as friends and spent some time seadooing on the lake.  Our time at the water was a reminder of why it is so important we all take, at the very least, baby steps towards being more aware of the condition of our planet.  We only have one to live on and it is in pretty bad shape, as you might be aware.  Often though the reality of our planet being sick is not visible or doesn't impact...