A greener year

Hello,

My name is bwings and I have set my new years resolutions!

Yes that was "resolutions" plural. I read somewhere about this person doing 365 things for 2009. I thought it was a fantastic idea and decided to do that for 2011. I only have 77 things yet but I will continue to add to it where I can as I go.

Some things are juvenile like:

• knit a Yoshi
• get a massage
• look nice everyday
• learn to pole dance

Some more serious like:

• learn to knit
• Participate in Relay for Life (or another run)
• Read a book a month (and other goals of 15 books a year)
• take dance lessons with David (in preparation for our wedding day)

But throughout my resolutions, even the ones that are not completely green, I maintain a level of green mindedness. Even the juvenile goals will have green undertones.

For instance when I:

• knit my Yoshi (after learning to knit) - I will seek organic cotton/bamboo yarn.
• get a massage - I will ask that they use only products free of Parabens and EDTA.
• look nice everyday - I will work towards reducing the Parabens in my make-up products
• learn to pole dance - ...let's call this one a freebie ;)

Of course I have green goals littered spread throughout as well. Such as reducing the EDTA usage in our household by removing all soaps, lotions, bubble baths etc. with EDTA in them. Reducing parabens with much the same method. The bigger challenge I've set is by the end of the year I want to reduce our garbage to 1 grocery bag a week! Right now we are at one grocery bag a day!! I have high hopes here but I feel with some amount of effort it can be accomplished. I don't know how I feel about composting with the beast around, so for now I'll do what I can.

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Have a happy and safe new years eve everyone and I'll be back with more eco-friendly blogs in the new year. See you in 2011, your friendly neighborhood hippie mom.