We've gotten a bit of a start on the easy stuff... We already had a water-saver shower head and a lights off policy (not that CrazyHorse much abides by it yet but he's learning). We've changed about half our lightbulbs out for CFLs and we're steadily working on the other half. We've got the base of the compost bin built and a bag full of stuff to go into the recycle bins when we get them done. But there's a list of other easy stuff we hope to do soon.
As we can afford to change out our appliances with energy efficient ones.
Eliminate paper towel and paper napkin use entirely (but I need to get more cloth napkins and towels to do this)
Buy new towels - preferably organic in some form or another and cut up the old ones to use as dish/wash rags (we would need to do this step regardless - our towels are getting old)
finish planting the garden with veggies that we like to eat and that store or can or freeze well.
Put the herb garden in for cooking and aromatherapy and crafty stuff I want to do.
Set aside a paper only bin so CrazyHorse and I can make some good, heavy stationary this year.
phase out my cleaning products to natural based cleaning products (which I'll review here)
Find a local farmer's market and a place that does the you-pick for some of the stuff we'll not be able to grow on our little piece of land (and I mean itty bitty in comparison to what I want)
It's a start anyway - we've got a long way to go but at least it's the right direction!
Posted by Shade53 at June 8, 2008 10:19 AM