the green gospel

after getting some good response from my post about reusing shower curtains (whooduh thunk?) i decided that it is time--- it is time for my revolution, time for world domination! spreading the good word of living sustainably.

recycling is great. i love that people have picked up the habits of turning lights off when they leave a room or turn off the water while washing their teeth. very good steps. good baby steps. because, when you think about it, each person wastes a lot of stuff. a lot. i know this because i pretty much don't throw anything away anymore (slight exaggeration---i would say i throw away about 20% of the things people normally throw away).


so i'm going to let you into some of my RRR secrets.

i think i will just do one 'material' at a time, so these don't get too long.

cardboard packaging:
large boxes (eg from something you ordered off the internet)
shoe boxes
cardboard containers
cardboard containers from frozen lunches
uses:

• keep large boxes. you generally have a lot of crap hanging around your house. take advantage of the boxes to pack some of that crap away.
• shoe boxes are good for holding: bottles of glue+rolls of tape; all of your flip flops in the winter time;
• cardboard containers (cereal boxes): i sew, so i keep these for patterns and stuff. i also use them for the homemade notebooks. um. well, i encourage you to make notebooks. if you do, i swear you'll be like, 'what?! i was throwing away/recycling this much paper before using it again? what kind of person am i?!'

i love windmills....

btw if anyone else is interested in buying land, buying a wind turbine and starting a sustainable B&B with tours of the turbines, lemme know.