Texas Green Step

Interesting weeks during this challenge!  Grateful for the opportunity, learning, and some fun!

Thank you all for joining me in this ecochallenge journey this month!  It's been fun to hear your stories of things you've learned and to share in finding new ways to do life!  Our Texas Green Step team got second place in the state of Texas and we ranked 70th in the whole competition!  

I didn't check in on the 18th evidently.  Thought I had not missed any days.  Sorry.  And now that Cora Lynn has posted my message, the box has opened up for me, so I'm able to post this message myself.  Being a part of the team has been fun and a daily reminder to be aware of my impact on the environment. Must keep it up!

One of our team members, Lueron Erickson, is having difficulty posting on the feed, so she asked me to post this for her.   Stewards of Eden by Sandra Richter It is an eye opening account of historical abuse of the environment as well as current practices of which we may be unaware.

Today I had to go back and catch up on the past week or so.  Done!

I just found out that you can check in seven days in the past.  Let me know if you have trouble figuring out how and I'll help.  

In these last few days of the challenge, share with us ways you benefited from the challenge.  Did it help you to recognize some new patterns for your lifestyle that might be more sustainable?  Did you learn something new about a topic you'd been curious about?  Did the challenge help you take care of a project you'd been meaning to for a long...

I collected catalogs and junk mail for two weeks and have just spent an hour sending opt out requests to all of them.  I also signed up for DMA Choice.org to opt out through that service as well as through Catalog Choice.  I'll keep collecting and requesting until I think I've contacted them all.  I'm interested to see if it helps because I am...

Have you tried using most of your water twice! How do you do this?

I've been doing some reading on food apartheid which is a subject that has always been compelling to me.  As most of you know, I've been interested in some form of community garden for a long time.  I'm not certain we have a food apartheid problem in Midlothian (the Food Access Research Atlas says we do not).  So maybe my efforts would serve...