Comments on: Looking Through Green-Colored Glasses

By: Wise Women Coffee Chat » One Woman’s Ingenuity and Creativity

Wise Women Coffee Chat » One Woman’s Ingenuity and Creativity — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 10:50:22 +0000

[...] few weeks back, Elaine blogged about different ways to go green. (Click HERE to read her blog). Stacy, one of our faithful commenters, shared a number of different ways she [...]

By: Charlotte

Charlotte — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 12:43:12 +0000

Wine corks! Wish I had known, I could have covered lots of square footage of flooring over the years.
All kidding aside, I enjoyed this informative article.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:08:02 +0000

One last comment – thanks everyone for some great suggestions. I keep thinking taking on the responsibility of communicating these types of resources and ideas to others (one’s neighborhood for example) would be a great community service project for kid’s to undertake.

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:05:54 +0000

Stacy – I’m impressed with your environmentally sound ingenuity…and I’m dying to see your copper garden sculpture!

By: Anne

Anne — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 18:04:20 +0000

Funny, one of the things that Obama has really been hammering home lately is that it is going to be EVERYONE’s responsibility to get us out of all our current crisis’. We can’t just sit back and hope the government and corporate America figure our energy and environmental solutions – it is everyone’s job to contribute in their own way.

I know longer bring home cases of water bottles from Costco. Instead we use sports bottles, and fill up from the tap. At work I have my coffee cup from home, so I can use this instead of the paper cups at the beverage station.

Keeping a pair of silver utensils in my drawer at work isn’t such a bad idea either. Each of these things is a small contribution….but if everyone did it, think of the huge impact we would make.

By: Cindy L

Cindy L — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 15:07:05 +0000

Funny you mention this. I am prepping for a Halloween party this week — and just decided to use real glasses for wine and real mugs for the chili instead of using paper and plastic. I used to rely on paper/plastic for larger parties, but have been rethinking that whole issue this year. Thanks for the reminder.

By: Stacy

Stacy — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:56:33 +0000

We use cloth napkins and throw them in with the laundry later in the week. We never use paper plates, paper cups or plastic utensils. We reuse plastic water bottles. We have a compost pile. I reuse gift wrap, bows and bags. Also, my husband’s father is lining the inside of their gazebo cieling with wine corks. We don’t have an SUV and never did and never will. We use cloth grocery bags. I’ve made rugs out of fabric from old clothes and sheets and used yarn for knitting by taking apart old sweaters. I made an 8 foot flower ornament for the garden using copper scraps found on a construction site. We made a mosaic garden bench using an old cement sink we found in the woods and broken tag sale plates. And, I am (also) very proud to say that our property has been chemical free for ten years.

By: Sharon

Sharon — Thu, 30 Oct 2008 13:19:55 +0000

The town I live in recycles just about everything except plastic bags, plastic wrap, and those snack bags that are part foil/part plastic. Even though I use reusable bags for groceries and other shopping, I still wind up with a fair number of plastic bags. I save them and recycle them at the grocery store.