Aug 16, 2008
Eco-Friendly Bossy: The Giveaway.
Bossy does what she can for the environment. She rides her bike around town, she turns off the water while brushing her teeth, she naps—stuff like that.
Bossy never gave much thought to the organic nature of the clothes on her back—although most of her wardrobe tends to be made of cotton. Cotton and a little organic material made of synthetic fiber Bossy likes to call Spandex.
Bossy also never gave much thought to how her cotton fabrics were grown in terms of pesticides and chemical fertilizers, which could explain a lot.
Which is why Bossy was so interested to learn about a t-shirt company dedicated to eco-friendly products—Tees For Change. Their cotton and cotton/bamboo shirts are grown free of chemicals, and they are manufactured fair trade without sweatshops.
The t-shirts also feature printed messages such as seek balance, today matters, and chase dreams.
Well.
Tees For Change wants to give one Bossy reader a t-shirt of your choosing. Simply leave a comment telling Bossy about one of your eco-friendly habits.
A random number generator will select the winner at the end of the weekend, but please enter only once. Good luck!
I surf the internet 8+ hours a day. Really cuts down on driving.
Just one habit? We recycle. I should have waited to comment. The random number thing NEVER picks one.
Two either.
I promote mystical consciousness, which in turn leads to eco-friendly behavior because there’s no difference between my readers and the earth. It’s really trippy.
vuboq is vegetarian! some forms of raising meat for food is very harmful to the environment. factory farms, i’m looking at you! [vuboq also tries to encourage his friends to have at least one meat-free meal a week. every little bit helps.]
*smooches*
Today Matters
Just one thing? Recycle as much as possible, oh and take my own shopping bags with me. oops, that’s two.
We recycle, repurpose lots of things, freecycle tons, use natural cleaning products, cloth diaper, compact fluor. bulbs, drive less, eat organically about 25% of the time, and have a small vegeatable garden!
I am the clothesline queen. Ew, and tacky, but green… and mmmm, smells good.
We use non toxic chemical free cleaning products. Does wonders for my asthma and the enviroment!
We recycle all metal, glass, paper and plastic and all food scraps are taken out to our chickens. We also turn off a/c at night and sleep with windows open and ceiling fans on as much as possible.
I now keep my compost in the freezer, until I can dump it one of the cute designated green bins. You should see the girls when they open the ice cream and it is really egg shells. Teeheehee.
I use fluorescent light bulbs and turn ‘em off when I am not using them!
Monkey recycles, and she saves cotton that might be used in pajamas by sleeping in the buff!
my cotton shopping bags are at least 20 years old. they look well used, and they are still schlepping stuff from redner’s warehouse market (an employee-owned local chain).
I LOVE LOVE LOVE Tees for Change and the girl who owns it.
I buy as much Organic foods as I can. I just wish Taco Bell did the same, ’cause Mama loves some TB.
We switched to 100% green energy in our house. Which makes me feel happy when I turn on the air conditioner.
I’m an eco-nut from way back (still have my mom’s ecology flag, remember the green stripes?!, from the 70’s), but, for the sake of sharing, I’ll simply say:
We live by the rule “If it’s yellow, let it mellow; if it’s brown, flush it down!”
I have some reusable shopping bags, but I forget to take them in with me… duh! recycle and I am attempting to get a food scraps bucket going. The family needs to learn to use it also! : )
Raise our own beef.
I use reusable shopping bags. Come on random number generator!!
My greatest contribution to the environment is that I have a completely paperless blog.
We don’t use any chemical fertilizers or pesticides. We recyle.
We recycle. Lots! And we keep the a/c set at 78 even when it’s 106 degrees outside.
I hang all my clothes to dry … then just add a dryer sheet & fluff the wrinkles out on cool for less than 10 minutes. Adds life to the clothes too. Plus other eco things … no plastic grocery bags, recycle, eco friendly cleaning products … no wait, I just remembered, I don’t clean!
I still make the kids bathe or shower together…because I’m lazy and I like a hot shower for myself. That’s eco-friendly, right?
I have a compost crock on my kitchen counter. All the scraps from the kitchen get put out in a compost pile out back. Once everything in there looks like dirt I spread it across my flower beds.
I can’t think of anything helpful or environmentally kind that I’m doing at the moment. The earth must be so pissed at me.
I’ve cut down on amount of meat eaten and when I do it is always free range ~ better for me AND the environment!
I try to make my morning showers a bit shorter, unlike the rest of my family who are in there for 30 minutes. HMMMM, maybe that is why they are short,,,,,no hot water left !!
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I am not nearly eco friendly enough, but I am hoping random nuber generator won’t notice.
We recycle everything the recycle center will take, bring my totes with me when grocery shopping, put those curly lightbulbs in the fixtures outside that
stay on all night, buy used books and resell them, grow some of our vegetables so at least I know where they came from and what was put on them…I’m sure there are many more things we do that are eco friendly, but I can’t think of all this morning. A cotton/bamboo blend t-shirt would be so nice. Bamboo is such a good idea for making everything from. Around here it is totally invasive and you cannot kill it. It is so totally renewable on its own that it is perfect for use for a lot of things. I’m thinking bamboo flooring for some rooms very soon.
We do our part by refusing to install central air in our house, and also keeping the heat at 60 in the winter. Crazy people, we are! We also have a humungo garden and are doing our best to grow our own vegetables. What we don’t grow we buy from local farmers.
I reuse/repurpose like crazy. I made a set of drawers for my closet out of old card board boxes. And I use my old clothes to make new toys!
i use wax paper bags for the kid’s snax & lunches. I never eat meat or chicken. or pork. or lamb. I grow my own jalapenos.
We recycle and are very good about turning off lights.
I drive 55.
In a Prius.
I’m a recyling NUT!!! I try to reuse as much as possible, but sometimes things have to go in the recycling bin. At the office, I’ve set up deskside recyling bins, but I still find myself going through the trash to grab the cans and bottles from those who obviously didn’t get the memo!!!
I allow my husband to visit the recycling dump when he is not digging our eco garden and tending our organic chickens and feeding our infernal wood stove, while I am happily and so usefully blogging
Well, once I bought eco-friendly dishwasher detergent, but it left a residue all over my dishes so that I had to wash them AGAIN, so NOW I make sure to NOT buy the eco-friendly dishwasher detergent so that my dishes only have to be washed ONCE, thus saving water.
Feed wild animals. Does that count?
Oh, and Rattling the Kettle going 55 in a Prius: Speed it up, will ya? I’ve got places to be.
I’m to cheap… er… too “eco-friendly” to buy bottled water in those nasty disposable plastic bottles. Yeah, that’s it! That’s why it’s tap water all the way at the Crab household. And I even take my cute little metal water bottle full of tap water to the gym where I get on the big electric powered elliptical machine in order to exercise. Go me!
We compost, use cloth grocery bags, recycle, use cloth napkins, and carpool.
We raise chickens. They stink. Also, we feed them our kitchen scraps. We recycle, but we have to DRIVE our recycling to the recycling center, which is stupid.
I switched to the Sigg bottles instead of buying bottled water to use for my workouts. And the Sigg bottles are much cuter!
We recycle & I just switched over to reusable dryer sheets.
I wash all different size ziplock plastic bags, hang them on a nifty wood drying rack and reuse, until they rip.
My neighbor and I go to the same 3 stores weekly (Trader Joe’s, Henry’s and Costco). We combine our errands on one day and carpool.
I recycle like a mad woman!
We gave up paper napkins. I sewed us several sets of cotton napkins that wash really well. My seven year old even carries a cloth napkin in his lunch box!
I hang all our laundry outside to dry. Also I’m trying to switch to a vegeterian diet.
We recycle just about everything we can and use our rainbarrel to water our garden and fill up the birdbath.
I make my own organic baby food for my 10 month old. My child eats better than my husband and I do!
recycle. everything. always.
cloth dipes and wipes– 100%!
Eco-friendly habits???
Well, I a solar dryer.
I save gray water to flush my toilets with.
I recycle my Walmart bags.
I take canvas bags to the grocery store.
I write blog posts about the ways I try and sometimes fail to go green:
http://meandyouandellie.blogspot.com/2008/06/im-trying-al-gore.html
When I leave my car at the shop in town, I run home instead of having their people drive me. Then I run back down when the car is ready.
I use non-toxic household cleaners. Safe for the environment, safe for my lungs and safe for my baby!
I recycle, turn off the water when I’m brushing my teeth, and lust for a hybrid car. That counts right?
Bossy, I made my family give up paper towels. Then my mother in law gave me an expensive paper towel holder as a gift. (nice!) Now, my father in law comes over with paper towels in hand if they are dining with us.
I am now planning to break into their house and replace their huge stash of paper towels with ugly flourscent light bulbs, hung like Christmas tree lights on a very expensive (re-gifted! b/c that is environmentally friendly) paper towel holder.
I married into a nice passive aggressive British family. They are not prepared for my jewish girl from manhattan grit.
i don’t use pesticides or fertilizer in my yard. unless you count the dog fertilizing the grass. in that case, i unintentionally fertilze:)
I don’t drive. It’s more of a phobia thing than an environmental thing, but, hey, two birds with one stone, right?
i use the compact fluorescent lightbulbs and i plug my tv/sound system into a power strip so that it doesn’t suck extra energy when i’m not using it. i love organic cotton clothes!!
I bought a bunch of reusable grocery totes when my store first offered them. No more plastic shopping bags for me! And the garage seems much bigger since the plastic ones finally found their way to the plastic bag recycling bin.
I bought my first reusable grocery bag at Ikea last week. It was $1.50 and should have bought more…oh well, next time!
Eco and I are best amigos, although I could do more to improve our friendship.
I will suffer a little heat and humidity in the summertime to save on a/c usage, and likewise keep the house chillier than most people in the winter.
Not that I am proud, but unless an item of clothing is smelly, stained or just plain gross, I will often wear it more than once to save on laundry (this does not include underwear, however).
Of course that could also be because I hate doing laundry, but I like to think I am doing my part to help the environment.
Princess is trying to think of how drinking copious amounts of Bacardi is eco-friendly…
I take a reusable water bottle with me everywhere instead of buying plastic disposable bottles.
We use canvas and fabric bags for grocery shopping instead of all the plastic. On the occasion that I buy more stuff than I have reuseable bags and have to use some plastic – I always recycle and reuse them.
BY recycling do you mean, saving the plastic Walmart bags and use them for the small trash cans in the house? Thus saving gas and money by not purchasing more plastic at the local Walmart! If so, we do THAT!
Oh, and grow our own tomato’s and buy fresh corn from the guy in the pickup truck up the road, that parks in the Moose Lodge.
And send the newspapers to the school for recycling so they can earn cash for it.
Ok, so not so bad, At first I thought, what a horrible bunch of this green earth, we are.
Can you believe Hawai`i still doesn’t have CURBSIDE RECYCLING?!? Me neither! We recycle our bottles and cans, buy few processed foods (less packaging!), happily wear, read, and use recycled clothing, books, and appliances, use those funky new lightbulbs… oh, and I work at home, so no commute, and my husband is a bus/bike commuter.
I use cleaning products that are friendly to the environment when they get washed down the drain and won’t leave toxic chemicals to be absorbed by my skin.
I stopped using paper plates and plastic forks during lunch at work. Our entire office is now doing the same. Now all we need to do is get everyone on board with the washing dishes part!
We do all the normal stuff…cloth shopping bags, recycle, CFLs, set thermostat high, fewest possible funky gardening/cleaning chemicals…the most interesting thing (to me) is we raise hens for organic eggs (in our suburban back yard). They wander around the yard and hang out under the wild bird feeders. Very Green Acres.
Cloth diapers. They’re really not that bad!
I take my own reusable bags to the grocery store. I endure the eye rolls of the cashier and sack my own groceries but at least it’s not another plastic bag in the landfill!
We’ve replaced all our cleaning supplies with earth=happy ones. They use coconut oil to clean and disinfect… they don’t make me gag like bleach. Everyone wins!
I recycle everything that I can get my hands on!
We recycle so much that our garage is full of trash to recycle by the time our pick up day comes around. It’s actually kind of disgusting. I swear, we recycle more than the rest of our neighborhood combined.
You rawk!
My husband and I take turns riding a scooter during the week. 75 mpg and FUN!
I’ve been very good at remembering my reusable shopping bags every time I go to the store. I also try to combine my errands so I’m not driving all over the place.
I like the color green, does that count? Okay, okay. I do recycle as much as possible and have taken to bringing my own water bottle instead of buying the disposable ones. Also, I carpool … I’d bike but 20 miles to work would kill me.
I ride the bus to and from work. It’s a hassle but it really really cuts down on driving and makes me feel all warm and eco-fuzzy so it’s worth it!
Recycling, waste free lunches, and carpooling. Today DOES matter!
I wear hemp clothing instead of cotton because hemp does not require the magnitude of crap to keep it living that cotton does.
Namaste.
My latest addition is no dryer sheets and reducing the amount of bleach I use. Sorry, but just can lose the bleach entirely yet.
Recycling and reusing. Oops, two.
I recycle all I can, I’m trying to be conscience of the amount of toilet paper I use, I use reuseable grocery sacs and try to use my crockpot, not the oven to save energy.
Carry my own shopping bags everywhere.
I use cloth grocery and produce bags for all of my shopping – grocery or otherwise. Many a walmart checker has given me the evil eye, but I don’t care. I also try to map out my errands to do them efficiently and use the least amount of gas possible.
I stopped commuting two weeks ago so I don’t add to any pollution in the NY Metro area.
I’m also having a baby any day now so I was kinda told I had to stay home.
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