Team REDBUDSUDS

Final day...what a wonderful 2 weeks of learning. I haven't finished the book Garbology - so my challenge continues. I also have some ideas for the upcoming months/years that I want to work on related to my Personal Trash Audit - Thank you NWEI for putting together such a great opportunity like this. See you all next year! PS. My personal trash...

Things I hope to continue as this challenge ends... -making my own bread (used my mom's recipe from when I was young) -reducing my use of plastic (I found a use for old t-shirts, washable produce bag for the grocery) Biggest challenges... -reducing my use of plastic 😬

Today, I completed my one-time challenge of watching a documentary film about food with my husband and my brother. We watched Just Eat It. Initial reaction: Wow. Also, I want to try dumpster diving for groceries. 

Here's my stash. Being. Totally transparent here: this includes cooking for a family of 4, but not the plastic of 4 chicken wrappings and 4 sausage plastic wraps. For 3 years I did cloth diapers, but gave them away about 4 months ago! Therefore, disposable diapers did not make my stash either.   I was so disappointed this week when I opened my...

I attempted to complete my one time challenge by setting up recycling at a local business in my town. I offered to buy a recycling bin for customers, and offered to pick up the recycling 3-5 days a week. The café is only about a mile from my house and I thought it would be a way to "be the change" that I would like to see I my town....

Grateful for my friends Grateful for dark evenings and slowing down Grateful for birthday celebrations and potlucks at work

I am proud to announce that I biked yesterday! It was a chilly rainy day. <45 degrees out when I was riding home, but I found that I still enjoyed my ride! Also, I used online weather radar to time my ride to miss the rain.  Today will make 4 days out of the week that I have biked.    When I started bringing my bike to work at the beginning...

Also. Call us old-fashioned, but we get the local paper. I just realized it comes in a plastic bag about half the time. This is a tough one, because we could switch to getting it online only. But for the sake of simplicity, I've really grown to enjoy the routine of checking out the local news, undistracted by the everpresent temptation of...

 I went to the local coffee shop to get some computer work done. Ordered a drink "for here." It came in this. Dang it.

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