Current location:	zomba, springfield
Current music:	Sinead O'Connor Throw Down Your Arms
Entry tags:	earth day, writer's block

Writer's Block: Happy Earth Day

COMPOST

I don't necessarily recycle "every day" because we just don't create that much trash.  Family of three, maybe two bags a week.  Unless we pick up the trash that blows into the yard.  Maybe I do actually literally throw something or other into the recycling every single day.  Now that I think about it.

I could do more energy conservation.  Use electricity less, insulate the house better. 

The new wood burning stove is great and plenty warm in Spring, but we'll see next winter if we wish we got ourselves a bigger one.  So anyway, not every single day, but when it's not too warm outside, we use carbon-neutral locally-harvested home heating and cooking fuel.  My only regret is that the chainsaw burns gas.  But we don't have a car so at least there's that.  Only it does make getting gas for the chainsaw harder.  D'ohh!

But not having a car also makes it harder to rush out and spend lots of money, so in that respect our consumption level is reduced, and that's every day.  Even just not eating out (especially fast food) probably does a lot to reduce our consumption.  "Consumption" meaning largely "waste" in our modern industrial lifestyle.

See the Noble Savagery blog where we talk about crazy eco-stuff.  We're also starting a Food Not Lawns Springfield (Illinois) network.  Exciting.

For environmentalism, nothing beats No Impact Man.  Truly an inspiration.  And there's perennial favorite Ran Prieur.