My name is Danielle (Adam will introduce himself eventually). Here are some things about me:
- My feet are actually average-sized (6.5 American), I'll get to the title after I introduce myself.
- My favorite color is in the process of changing from green to yellow.
- I'm a social worker (but I really want to teach middle school math)
- I was born on Friday the 13th.
- I eat the cookie part of the ice cream sandwich first.
- I have a turtle named Pablo, two cats named Quickbeam and Treebeard, and a Great Pyrenees named Zori.
- I'm scared of the dark, alligators, chalk, scuba diving and wiping out on a treadmill.
- I read out loud.
- I sometimes use and sometimes don't use the Oxford Comma.
- I would say that I'm pretty involved in trying to right the wrongs I see in the world. Though there's always more I could do, I stay informed and take steps to fix things that I don't like.
However, there is one grand exception.
I know lots about what fracking does to the water table, I think the Keystone XL Pipeline is a HORRIBLE idea and I know that there's a 300,000 square mile heap of trash floating in the Pacific Ocean... but until just recently, I never recycled, I was overly wasteful and I put the burden of "saving the environment" on others. I was selfish and lazy.
This blog is the beginning of the end of that nonsense. I recently had what I will call an "environmental success." I determined that one very small part of my life was creating an exorbitant amount of garbage. This garbage wasn't recyclable and until I did a little research I thought it was just a fact of my life. The solution to this problem eliminated 100% of the rubbish I was creating. The solution will even save me money over time. As a result, I feel extremely empowered, I want to take on more personal challenges that address my impact on the environment and I want to share them with others so they can do the same.
In a nutshell: My husband and my global footprints are big. When combined, they're massive. We're going to make small changes (minuscule, really) to fix the things we do that are crap to the environment.
That said, this blog will continue as follows:
- We will post about ways that we are wasteful.
- We will research our options (and ask for the opinions of readers, if we have any).
- We will write about what happens as we try to change.
- We will update how it's going.
Please post questions, suggestions, tips and motivation for us... there's a far greater likelihood we'll update if you do!
Here goes something.
Here goes something.
