I feel like a poor example of Green Living lately. Used to be that I could go almost a month between gas tank fill ups on the Volvo. But since opening the store I've logged almost 600 miles in six weeks! Some days it seems like I'm making two or three trips back and forth to town to go to the shop, pick up or drop off a child from school or make an emergency ginger ale run. (I forgot to mention last week the stomach flu hit our house! Thankfully I dodged that bullet.)
I also feel like I've been generating a disproportionate amount of garbage lately. Everyday I leave the shop with the back end of the station wagon loaded with garbage. Most of it is cardboard boxes from shipments and I do recycle so I'm not a total loser. But there is still a lot of plastic packaging in some of those shipments that isn't recyclable.
In an effort to up my Green Points, tomorrow I plan to make a few Eco-Bags; fabric shopping bags to use instead of paper or plastic. I've looked at a few tutorials and patterns on the net but think I'll just draft my own pattern. I also added two classes to the May class schedule so you can learn to make your own Earth Friendly Shopping Bags.
I want to make some shopping bags! Dean and I decided to start using them this week since we typically bring home (probably) 20 of the plastic ones every week! Grandma taught me how to make a bag when I was about 10... I have it somewhere, I'll have to try to find it and see if I can figure out how to make one!
ReplyDeleteP.S. I can't wait to come see the shop! If I ever get a day off I'll pack Kaija up and we'll come over.