No More Dependency On Oil

The explosion of the New Orleans Deep Water oil rig has come at key time when the United States is further exploring the idea of more off shore drilling. After the latest environmental catastrophe, again created by our dependency on oil, I am thrilled about a new development that will hopefully change the automobile industry for the better, permanently !!

Check out the Nissan Leaf, a completely electric car, that you can actually buy at the car dealership soon. It is time to take away the oil industry's grip of power over us. Especially the foreign dependency on oil. This is a huge step in the right direction!

Smart cars are also starting to be seen more in our country. Let's keep up this band wagon, and use the oil for our air travel! Perhaps the prices to fly would come down as there would be more supply for the oil! We could have electric car charge stations instead of gas stations! And no more oil slicks off of our precious coasts! Imagine it!

Earth Day 2010 Follow Up

Had a great time celebrating Earth Day 2010 doing what I would do on any other given day in the year: My Tigers and I went to drop off the recylables at the county landfill!

I also remembered another tip to support a company that is awesome about going green. Scotties facial tissues plants 3 trees for every 1 that they use for their products! You can even pick up some of these tissues at the Dollar Tree, everything's a dollar!

Earth Day 2010

Just a quick word on Earth Day, 2010. I would encourage you to not just make this a one day event, but to create a lifestyle of the 3 Rs. Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. Who'd have thought I would learn a simple way to go about this from my mother way before going green or recycling was such a big issue. We did it originally to save a little money.

A very simple way to do some reducing and reusing is to wash the plastic baggies a few times and reuse them before throwing them to the trash. It really does work! The great thing is, you will save a few pennies doing that as well.

Another very simple thing we do around the house: I have a paper recyclable bag in the garage and a small trash container upstairs that is dedicated to anything we can throw in our city's recycle bin. This makes it much easier to sort, and really saves on the time factor as well.

Check out some Earth Day activities this year at Envirolink, and see what you can do to start this year! Recycling really can be a fun thing to do if you make it so and keep it simple!

Simple Saving

This afternoon, my Tigers and I will go over to the landfill to recycle a trunk-full of cardboard and newspaper. I get what I can from work because there is no cardboard bin.

Between that and my town's collection every other week, we save 2 trash cans full and 2-3 trunk fulls of a 4 door sedan per month from going in the landfill! This is simple, very little time consumption, and very little money to do this.

I am more motivated than ever after reading this article at Yahoo news. This along with this question: Did you know there is a trash pile of fused plastic and trash the size of Texas floating in the ocean?

Let's just start with the process with us. I'll say it again, probably too many times, "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle!" Simple to say, do, and make it a lifestyle! Remember, a lot of littles add up to a lot!!

Starbucks On the House!

Check this out. Starbucks is offering a free cup of Joe! this Thursday, April 15 if you bring in your travel mug! Starbucks is a big proponent in the going green movement.

Every day Starbucks will give you ten cents off of any drink when you bring in your travel mug. It doesn't have to be a Starbucks mug, either. Can you imagine how many trees we could save by using our travel mugs? ! Some of the lower end ones are only $10, many of us Starbucks drinkers will be making up that $10 really quickly.

I love my iced grande tumbler, and do enjoy my hot mug to go also. I use it when ever possible.

If I can't use the iced tumbler, I make sure that the plastic goes to the recycle bin at home. Through the grapevine I have heard that Starbucks might be working on a more earth-friendly straw as well!

Ted's Montana Grill is on the ball with that one with their paper straws that disintegrate within 24 hours! I know Starbucks will figure it out. Let's all work on the reusable, a lot of smalls make a great big difference!

Welcome To Eat This, Recycle That

Welcome to Eat This, Recycle That blog. I am Boulder Mountain Man, as I am a Boulder, Colorado native. Love the great Rocky Mountains, yet North Carolina has truly become home to myself and my family.

We have a passion for healthy living, organic foods, going green, and recycling. These have been a lifestyle of mine and my family's for many years now. I will be sharing ideas and thoughts about simple ways to make your little corner of the world a better place.

Look for engaging topics with my experiences as a father of twin boys, - the Tigers! This is my other passion, along with my wife. Many of you know and enjoy her blog, Carolina Mama. She is a big inspiration for my blogging.

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