Happy Earth Day

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Becoming vegetarian is one of the most important and effective actions you can

take to ease the strain on our Earth’s limited resources, protect the planet

from pollution, and save countless species from extinction.

 

http://www.chooseveg.com/environment.asp

 

 

http://www.vegtaste.com/pages/posting.php?articleId=103

 

http://www.downtoearth.org/environment

 

 

http://www.thedailygreen.com/environmental-news/latest/green-new-years-resolutio\

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Try using a clothesline. I love my umbrella clothes line. I never have to

move the basket of clothes or move. I put them the basket in a lawn chair

beside me and rotate the clothes line. They hold about two loads of clothes.

I keep ours up by our patio, so it is close and handy. I dry our bath towels

on it, after our baths each day. Hardware stores are a good place to find

these. Also so is Amazon. You can use an patio umbrella cast iron stand/base

to put the clothesline in, or you can put an included base that goes in the

ground, to place the umbrella clothesline in. You can close these up, take

inside, or leave up all the time(I do this). They don't look bad at all and

clothes are dry in the summer much faster than in the dryer.

 

Another thing we have started doing, is using 1 ply TP. Walgreens has their

store brand of 1000 sheets on sale often times 2/$1. They last a very long time

and come wrapped individually in paper instead of plastic.

 

Blinds and thermal curtains help out a lot on keeping our homes cooler in the

hot weather. If we're not home, they stay closed and we turn the temp up on

the AC. They really keep it cool.

Also ceiling fans are fantastic at keeping us cooler. When I'm cooking in the

kitchen, during the summer, I keep cool by turning on a pedistal fan that blows

on me, instead of turning the whole house cooler. Unless it is a really

cloudy/rainy day, we just open up the blinds and use no lights. I keep an LED

night light on in the bathrooms, so we don't need to turn on lights for quick

trips in there.

 

We are growing a small veggie garden, which also helps provide some good food

for our family. We've had several varieties of kale, rainbow swiss chard and

collards greens all fall, winter and spring, as we just cut off the leaves and

leave in the roots to produce more leaves. Soon I'll have our warm weather

garden planted, as the kale and collards are starting to bolt as it is getting

hotter here. Every little bit helps. Herbs and stawberries are growing in

pots on my patio year around. The strawberries have started producing lots of

berries in the last month. They are delicious. One plant can spread and make

many new plants on all the elbows on the stems. Garlic chives and rosemary

survive very well here no matter how cold or hot it gets here in the SE USA.

 

Happy Earth Day everyone!

Judy