Monday, April 28, 2008

Going Green!

So Cory and I don't hug our trees, we definately are not environmentalists, and we are not convinced that global warming is going to kill us all by 2012! We do however feel like there are some things that we can do that will help old Mother Earth along. We bought some canvas bags to carry our groceries home in (Laurie I thought you'd like that one) and we switched to green cleaners. We buy the clorox green works cleaners. They are comprable in price and they smell so much better. We buying some bricks tonight to put in the tank of our toilet (voila, instant water savings without buying a new toilet) and we'll be switching out our old bulbs as the die with the energy efficient ones. And did you know that the average American uses 3 times more water then their lawn actually needs. Heres an easy fix. Get an old Tuna can (clean of course). Water your lawn until the can is full and you dont need to water again until its empty (we're totally gonna do this one as well). Plus if you let your lawn grow and stay at 3 inches, it holds in water almost twice as long. And I think it looks plusher as well!

I don't want to get preachy. I don't believe that this earth is going to give out on us before the Savior comes again, and I don't think that we all need to go organic and start wearing burlap sacks instead of blended fabrics, but weren't we given this Earth to be stewards over it. I know its not much, but Cory and I are going to start trying to be better about doing our part to be GOOD stewards of this Earth. We hope it makes a difference.

4 comments:

Zackira's said...

HAHAHA I think that is so funny. We have had so many different meetings at work about such things. I have been teaching my students all about this as well. My favorite is the Barney song: When you're brushing your teeth and having so much fun you never let the water run. If you turn the water off while brushing your teeth you can save 5 gallons of water a day.

bunchocoffeys said...

Hey that's great! I want to get some of those canvas bags, too. Walmart had some great statics on theirs...anyways, when we have a little extra cash I think we may go for it as well! (Stupid hospital bills. :P)

Martinez-Gardner said...

Go Annie! We're trying to do a lot of this stuff too. I can't say I'm an avid environmentalist, but I do think we need to take care of the earth. Jared on the other hand is all about conserving energy these days because he learned how much money it will save him!

Laurie said...

YEah!! I love it. We watched this movie called the Arctic Adventure or something... about a polar bear and a walrus and how global warming is effecting them. Anyway, at the end, it gives all these little suggestions for how to help stop global warming. The one that always sticks out to me is turning off the light when you leave the room. They said something like, "Every time you turn off the light, one more polar bear gets to live." How do you not do it after that??