Thursday, April 22, 2010

Earth Day

On this beautiful Earth Day it has me thinking of what we do to help the Earth on a daily basis. And while we have a long ways to go to be complete at our house, in the last 10 years we have came a very long way.
For us we use Cloth Diapers, and tho we have times that we do use disposables, I can proudly say that through 3 kids we have not used what most people use in the lifetime of 1.
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We use cloth toilet paper, reusable menstrual pads, cloth napkins, and no paper plates or cups to speak of.
We buy 99% of our clothing and other items used thus reducing the impact on the landfills with waste. And when things wear out and are no longer usable or sellable, we will recycle them into something else.
We buy locally whenever possible, grow what we can with fruits, veggies and meats. And do what we can to support small business's and work at home moms when purchasing new.
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We plant trees and flowers that will help to take pollutants out of the air.
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I am sure that there is more but those are the ones that I can think of right now. So what do you do that helps our earth?

5 comments:

  1. Do you really use cloth diapers like you say? I can't believe that you don't use disposable cups and plates for parties? Thats pretty impressive!! lol ;)

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  2. Yes I do, have I taken breaks yes. Not all parties are disposable free but many have been.

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  3. As far as the parties go, you are way more brave than I! I have pretty much always used disposable since I don't have enough of my good ones and I don't want to run my dishwasher two times just to get them all clean.

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  4. lol well I have to run my dishwasher twice a day anyways with all the milk stuff that goes through here, but ya I have plastic stuff that we use for some parties and china for other things, depends on what its for. Id like to get a set that is just for kids bday parties that is cute and fun but washable, just haven't done it yet!!!

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  5. We rarely use paper products for parties since we have so many dishes and cloth napkins. And I am with you on almost every other point.
    BUT....I am confused about the cloth toilet paper. Do you make that and then wash and reuse it? I pretty much think I would draw the line there for myself but I had never heard of cloth toilet paper myself.

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