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Sustainibility in your house ?
wasnervouswreck
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I know alot of you are trying to keep your households enviromentally friendly.
So far we are cloth diapering, re-using gray water in our yard and buying mostly used clothing,furniture, appliances,bedding and alot of toys and baby furniture.We use washclothes instead of papertowels.
We do alot , but there is always room for imporovement.
So, I was looking for suggestions, websites and tips on how to make my family more enviromentally sound and perhaps get more out of what we have.
So far we are cloth diapering, re-using gray water in our yard and buying mostly used clothing,furniture, appliances,bedding and alot of toys and baby furniture.We use washclothes instead of papertowels.
We do alot , but there is always room for imporovement.
So, I was looking for suggestions, websites and tips on how to make my family more enviromentally sound and perhaps get more out of what we have.
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We recycle as much packaging as we can and try to shop locally at farmers markets and such to avoid all the plastic.
Some of the ways we do this is by purchasing wheat berries and grinding the grains for flour to make our own bread. Instead of $6 or more per loaf of organic bread it's closer to $2 a loaf. And tastes so much better!
Also check out your local farmers market for a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture). You can often get a weekly basket of local produce for an inexpensive cost.
Hanging dry the cloth diapers and clothes saves a lot of electricity. (if you have an electric dryer) Plus the sun is anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial, because of the UV rays.And it helps to whiten whites.
Babybay, kudos to you for using a push mower! Thats hard work.:)
oh, and KTZ reminded me -- food is another way to make an impact on the environment. there are all kinds of ecological benefits to being a vegetarian!