hug the world
Every year in homage to Earth Day, I use The Nature Conservancy's website to calculate my carbon footprint. I am down four carbon tons this year! Feeling pretty awesome about that.
Here is my favorite new thing: I bring my own tupperware to restaurants for leftovers :-) I have always felt verrrry conflicted about taking home food, because I hate waste, but I reallyreally hate styrofoam. That stuff never, EVER biodegrades, and there are zero facilities in AZ that recycle it. So one day I just happened to have some clean tupperware in my car (maybe I was returning it to someone?) when I was out to eat, and had a brain flash, ran out to the car, and went home smiling at my brilliance. Since then I pretty much always keep some plastic container in my car so I can bring home leftovers guilt-free (along with my insulated travel mug :-). I practically (well, actually, literally) do a dance every time I get to take home food now. (too bad that doesn't measure into the calculator hehe)
Happy Earth Day everyone!
Here is my favorite new thing: I bring my own tupperware to restaurants for leftovers :-) I have always felt verrrry conflicted about taking home food, because I hate waste, but I reallyreally hate styrofoam. That stuff never, EVER biodegrades, and there are zero facilities in AZ that recycle it. So one day I just happened to have some clean tupperware in my car (maybe I was returning it to someone?) when I was out to eat, and had a brain flash, ran out to the car, and went home smiling at my brilliance. Since then I pretty much always keep some plastic container in my car so I can bring home leftovers guilt-free (along with my insulated travel mug :-). I practically (well, actually, literally) do a dance every time I get to take home food now. (too bad that doesn't measure into the calculator hehe)
Happy Earth Day everyone!