I started this blog in 2010 after reading an article by the National Academy of Sciences reporting results from a study indicating 33 specific household actions that will cut US carbon emissions by 123 million metric tons. I was inspired to step up to the plate and wanted to challange our family (and inspire others) to do our part. We made it only 17 days and then life ...(you know the story).


Fast forward three years: It's 2013 and I am re-inspired after attending three very eye opening films featured in our community's One Earth Film Festival. Our family is kicking off a new challange (more broad and perhaps less defined by a carbon metric) - to pursue one new action a day (for 365 days) that will positively affect climate change and sustainability. Let's see how far we make it!



Monday, March 4, 2013

Day 1 (March 4, 2013):Stop using plastic shopping bags

The first film we watched Saturday was tittled, BagIt, a documentary that started out about plastic shopping bags but then evolved into a plastics investigation and their effect on our waterways, oceans, and what scared me the most, the effect on our bodies.  The plastic shopping bag is now evil in my eyes.  Our first action today is to stop using them, period.  Stop using them to pick up our dog's poop and stop using them at the grocery.  We have put mulitple fabric shopping bags in both cars so they will always be easy to grab on the way into a store and we have bundled the ones we did have in our house and plan to drop them off at Jewel to be recycled.
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