Earth Day sorry for the lack up updates lately, but we've been having ISP problems. Its been down more than up the past couple of weeks. They suck. :-p Not only does it knock out my internet, but also my Voip phone. bleah.

Anyhoo...Today is Earth Day. What are you doing to reduce your carbon footprint today? Or any day for that matter. We've replaced pretty much all of our incandescent bulbs with compact fluorescents. I buy organic when I can. Yesterday I re-potted a whole bunch of houseplants, and James started our vegetable garden. We're growing our own, and yes, organic.

I bought a permanent coffee filter for my coffee maker last week. And when I do my grocery shopping, I take my own, re-usable canvas shopping bags. I've been doing that for several years now, but I think I'm one of very few, if not the only one, in this town that does! Its fairly common back home, but apparently not so much here.

I've been thinking of getting a couple portable solar panels. We can't afford to convert entirely to solar, but maybe we can take a couple of small appliances off-grid. Like our cell phones and coffee maker, maybe the bread machine.

I have been looking at new car price-tags, and wondering how I'll be able to get something a lot more environmentally friendly. I can't afford a hybrid (not with my wages and with our medical bills!), but I may be able to finagle a smaller car that uses less gas than our gas guzzling Escape. We'd have to keep the Escape to take the dogs when they go anywhere with us, but for me to just get back and forth to work or shopping, I don't need the monstrosity.

Here's a website that has a list of things that we can all do to help reduce greenhouse gasses.

Well....Happy Earth Day. What will you do to make a difference?  ¶ 10:01 AM