Earth Day, everyday?

Totally in sync with the rest of my life, my Earth Day posting is getting in just under the wire.

I recycle, I reuse but I have most certainly not reduced at all.  But that isn't for lack of trying.  It's hard to siplify. I turn off lights when I leave a room and I even keep the thermostat a few degrees below the *ideal* comfort level because a sweater is cheaper than gas heat.  I combine trips in the car and avoid driving on super hot days but beyond that, I don't have much to be proud of, particularly my gross over-use of plastic bags.  I do reuse them at home for trash, counts? No?

I'm constantly trying to be a better citizen of our planet.  I want my kids to learn by doing, not by rhetoric and radical thought.  We recycle because we care not because it a law in out county.  In the next year I want my family to take a look at the products we use to clean and the items we consume in mass and consider ways to reduce our footprint. 

 This season, however, I'm stretching the bounds of townhome living further than they've ever been stretched and I'm attempting to grow a massive amount of vegetables right here in my own back yard in containers, window boxes, and inverted planters.  As we move into summer and I cook with my produce, I will write entries under the GROW YOUR OWN title.  Stay tuned for the goodness!

Here is our beginning.

Please to enjoy my lettuce, spinach, parsley, basil, bell peppers, jalapenos, tomatoes, zucchini and green beans.

And because they are pretty ....

Flowers. Eventually.

Also on the level with earthy goodness, I am using a worm composter!  Pictures of my little worms coming soon.  They are busy setting up house in the Can o' Worms composter and eating themselves silly with all the kitchen scrapes I provide them.

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[Mike Licht]

Earth Day 2009: our long global cow flatulence nightmare is over.

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http://notionscapital.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/earth-day-2009/