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It's Not Easy Being Green February 2019

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It's Not Easy Being Green February 2019

Being environmentally friendly is often more about being aware of your habits and practices.  Sometimes it may not be choosing the most green option but a greener option than your current practices.  The way we heat our home is an example of this in that we utilize wood from our land to burn in a wood stove.  While it is not the most environmentally friendly method out there, it is considered carbon neutral in our situation.  The reason is because we utilize old trees that are dying or need cut down anyways so our forest stays a fully healthy forest despite...

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It's Not Easy Being Green October 2018

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It's Not Easy Being Green October 2018

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...

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