Comments on: Top 10 wild ways to go green http://www.hartofgreen.com/561/awakening-my-green-intuition/ Jerry Hart deeply rooted in green Fri, 12 Mar 2010 23:30:12 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7.1 hourly 1 By: David http://www.hartofgreen.com/561/awakening-my-green-intuition/comment-page-1/#comment-83 David Mon, 13 Jul 2009 19:18:14 +0000 http://www.hartofgreen.com/?p=561#comment-83 On # 10. "Do Laundry Less"you don't need to wear your clothes two or three times to reduce laundry, just wear clothes less. That reduces a lot of laundry, you can save water by showering with friends too. On #12. "Less Deodorant" Foul Odors Come From Foul Foods, cutting out the meat and eating raw fruits and veggies will stop the foul odors. On # 10. “Do Laundry Less”you don’t need to wear your clothes two or three times to reduce laundry, just wear clothes less. That reduces a lot of laundry, you can save water by showering with friends too.

On #12. “Less Deodorant” Foul Odors Come From Foul Foods, cutting out the meat and eating raw fruits and veggies will stop the foul odors.

]]> By: Julia http://www.hartofgreen.com/561/awakening-my-green-intuition/comment-page-1/#comment-77 Julia Tue, 07 Jul 2009 10:50:00 +0000 http://www.hartofgreen.com/?p=561#comment-77 I spend so much time carting my kids to swim practice and picking them back up! If I just stuck them on the top of the car and drove around town to do my errands, not only would I save the gas money but they wouldn't even have to get in the pool for their exercise! You're awesome! I spend so much time carting my kids to swim practice and picking them back up! If I just stuck them on the top of the car and drove around town to do my errands, not only would I save the gas money but they wouldn’t even have to get in the pool for their exercise! You’re awesome!

]]> By: Mark http://www.hartofgreen.com/561/awakening-my-green-intuition/comment-page-1/#comment-64 Mark Sat, 27 Jun 2009 15:20:29 +0000 http://www.hartofgreen.com/?p=561#comment-64 You know Jerry, maybe you can help me out with this little conundrum I've had for many years. When standing at the grocery checkout line and they ask, "paper or plastic", I get this sudden paralysis of two conflicting dilemnas. On the one hand, I hate to be contributing to the whacking down of our beautiful forest, as I pause and play a mental youtube of the majestic Red Tailed hawk lighting on the very limb that I may condemn to death in the name of my half gallon of milk, package of low-fat cheddar and a tub of Sanka. On the other hand, I’m quite passionate about not using up our petroleum just to create these billions upon billions of plastic grocery bags that mostly end up in landfills. Yeah ok I do put them in the recycle ben, but…. Well you know what I mean. So Jer, what’s the answer? You know Jerry, maybe you can help me out with this little conundrum I’ve had for many years. When standing at the grocery checkout line and they ask, “paper or plastic”, I get this sudden paralysis of two conflicting dilemnas.

On the one hand, I hate to be contributing to the whacking down of our beautiful forest, as I pause and play a mental youtube of the majestic Red Tailed hawk lighting on the very limb that I may condemn to death in the name of my half gallon of milk, package of low-fat cheddar and a tub of Sanka.

On the other hand, I’m quite passionate about not using up our petroleum just to create these billions upon billions of plastic grocery bags that mostly end up in landfills. Yeah ok I do put them in the recycle ben, but…. Well you know what I mean.

So Jer, what’s the answer?

]]> By: jerry http://www.hartofgreen.com/561/awakening-my-green-intuition/comment-page-1/#comment-40 jerry Sat, 13 Jun 2009 18:23:54 +0000 http://www.hartofgreen.com/?p=561#comment-40 Kendal, what a gas that top 10 list was to write. TIN FOIL A HOUSE was #6...that's a lot of Reynolds Wrap! I read the article you nudged me to check out and it's all about painting everything WHITE for going green. Well, there's the stimilus package for Kelly Paint stores. And, as I was reading it I thought of Madonna's hotel in Miami. It's literally ALL white...everything. The only color I witnessed was a green apple that greets you on a white pedistal when you open your door. Kind of surreal. Appreciate your reading Hart of Green and adding such color and flare to the conversation. How can I support you? What is your blog? Sincerely, Jerry Kendal, what a gas that top 10 list was to write. TIN FOIL A HOUSE was #6…that’s a lot of Reynolds Wrap! I read the article you nudged me to check
out and it’s all about painting everything WHITE for going green. Well, there’s the stimilus package for Kelly Paint stores. And, as I was reading it I thought of
Madonna’s hotel in Miami. It’s literally ALL white…everything. The only color I witnessed was a green apple that greets you on a white pedistal when you open
your door. Kind of surreal. Appreciate your reading Hart of Green and adding such color and flare to the conversation. How can I support you? What is your blog?
Sincerely, Jerry

]]> By: Marty http://www.hartofgreen.com/561/awakening-my-green-intuition/comment-page-1/#comment-39 Marty Fri, 12 Jun 2009 22:32:43 +0000 http://www.hartofgreen.com/?p=561#comment-39 Oh you youngsters are learning a thing or two, aren't you... If you had grown up with *my* generation, you'd already be doing a lot of this stuff. We didn't have the luxuries you've grown up with. We had to make do with what we had... and as it turns out, many of those things are called "green" now. We didn't bathe every day because we couldn't afford it. We did laundry once a week. We bought local produce... locally. (That has been changed by corporate greed, forcing us to buy prepackaged fruit and vegetables from foreign sources.) I miss the produce stands that were so common then. There still are a few in some areas, but I figure not for long. Moms used to sew their kids' play clothes from the cloth sacks some commodities were packaged in. I only had 5 wearable outfits for school... one per day. Nowadays, living alone and retired, I do eat over the sink. The dog gets all the crumbs and scraps, though petfood manufacturers would have us believing how unhealthy that is. I don't have that many scraps, and the dog thinks I'm a god. But I didn't have to anguish over my dog's fate during the petfood recall 2 years ago, either. No, I think we need to look back in order to find a path forward. Call it green, call it any color - some day we'll be forced to go back to basics anyway, one way or another. Oh you youngsters are learning a thing or two, aren’t you… If you had grown up with *my* generation, you’d already be doing a lot of this stuff. We didn’t have the luxuries you’ve grown up with. We had to make do with what we had… and as it turns out, many of those things are called “green” now. We didn’t bathe every day because we couldn’t afford it. We did laundry once a week. We bought local produce… locally. (That has been changed by corporate greed, forcing us to buy prepackaged fruit and vegetables from foreign sources.) I miss the produce stands that were so common then. There still are a few in some areas, but I figure not for long. Moms used to sew their kids’ play clothes from the cloth sacks some commodities were packaged in. I only had 5 wearable outfits for school… one per day. Nowadays, living alone and retired, I do eat over the sink. The dog gets all the crumbs and scraps, though petfood manufacturers would have us believing how unhealthy that is. I don’t have that many scraps, and the dog thinks I’m a god. But I didn’t have to anguish over my dog’s fate during the petfood recall 2 years ago, either. No, I think we need to look back in order to find a path forward. Call it green, call it any color - some day we’ll be forced to go back to basics anyway, one way or another.

]]> By: Kendal http://www.hartofgreen.com/561/awakening-my-green-intuition/comment-page-1/#comment-36 Kendal Fri, 12 Jun 2009 05:07:19 +0000 http://www.hartofgreen.com/?p=561#comment-36 Number 6 made me lol considering this article I read recently: http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/obamas-climate-guru-paint-your-roof-white-1691209.html Here's a good tip: get an environmentally-friendly laundry liquid (mine smells like oranges!) and put a bucket in the sink to catch the water that's being emptied out. Transfer bucket contents to gardens. Enjoy :D Number 6 made me lol considering this article I read recently:

http://www.independent.co.uk/environment/climate-change/obamas-climate-guru-paint-your-roof-white-1691209.html

Here’s a good tip: get an environmentally-friendly laundry liquid (mine smells like oranges!) and put a bucket in the sink to catch the water that’s being emptied out. Transfer bucket contents to gardens. Enjoy :D

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