Staying Motivated

Earth day has quickly passed and soon I will no longer be bombarded with Green ideas and products, once May hits most retailers no longer care. I have decided to make a list of all the changes I have made and other environmentally friendly things that I already do. Here we go.

Things I have been doing:

Conserving water by:
-taking short showers, and showering less (this one is partly laziness, and plus my hot water only last 5 minutes, but it still counts!)
-Flushing the toilet less (if it's yellow let it mellow, if it's brown flush it down)
-Only running the dishwasher every other day when it is really full.
*This has also kept my water bill very low.

Saving Gas/electricity by:
-Keeping the heat low (I did have to wear lots of layers in my apartment all winter, but it wasn't too bad)
-Turning lights off when I'm not using them, and not keeping the TV on for background noise (this one was really hard for me, I have trouble remembering to turn lights off)
-Using the new light bulbs (you know the twirly florescent ones)

Since starting the blog I have also started recycling everything that I can, and this is not easy I had to find recycling drop off places, and the paper and plastic ones are in different places, but enough whining. I also started getting everyone recycling at work, and take all the leftover newspaper at the end if the day!

So as you can see I have made a pretty impressive start, but I still have a long way to go! I am going to have to keep pluging and working harder to stay motivated!