Happy Earth Day!!

This is actually a meaningful day to us this year. In the past few months we've readjusted our habits to make our footprints a little smaller when we leave this Earth, thanks in part to the desire for less trash, the discovery of big recycling bins (at last!) in our little city, a kick in the pants by good old Al Gore and the quiet inspiration of my niece in Calgary who has been environmentally conscious for as long as I can remember.

So far we've:
* changed to reusable cloth bags for our grocery shopping
* changed our most-used lights to CFL lights with the plan to change the rest as they burn out
* set up bins in our kitchen to collect anything that we can recycle
* set up a composter (just yesterday!) in our garden.

... small changes so far and we're probably still miles behind most of the civilized world, but we're always looking for new things we can do, like using vinegar and baking soda instead of Mr Clean, for example. We have a long way to go, but we're really having fun with this. I'm ridiculously excited about composting. I've been carefully following the rules, so it had better work! In any case, I'd rather have the kitchen gunk out there instead of in my garbage, so it seems I can't lose.

Mr X's passion for change kind of surprised me, but I'm so glad he's on board with this. It's my kids who, at first anyway, thought we were crazy. Hah.

Happy Earth Day!