Why do people look at me like I have 2 heads?

I'm very passionate about my thoughts on accountability when it comes to sustainability.  And I live by this.

To me it is this simple.

If you purchase something, you are now the responsible party that when you are through with it that it is disposed of correctly.  I'm talking about the day to day items in our lives.  When you are finished with the dish soap, rinse out the bottle and recycle.  You know that roll in the center of the toilet paper - that is recyclable too.  How about those old pair of jeans - they recycle too.  Aluminum foil - it can be recycled infinite times, rinse it off and toss it in with the recyclables.  I could go on and on.

Nothing gets me going faster then to see a recycling container sitting directly beside a trash can and the trash can is filled with items that should be in the recycling container.  Why does this happen?  Is it laziness?  Is it because people need to be educated on what is and what is not recyclable? 

I'm going to offer this for anyone in the Pittsburgh area.  If you are unsure of what is recyclable, email me and I will help you by either locating a guide (City of Pittsburgh has a nice one that lists the recycling basics). 
http://www.city.pittsburgh.pa.us/pw/html/recycling.html
No cost to you - my only payment is that you will learn what to do with "that" item(s) in the future.

I care about this planet, my family, for your family, and for all the children yet to come.  Please won't you join me in taking these little steps of recycling.

Book recommendation: Now or never

Do you care about climate change?  Read THIS book!  If you have any questions regarding the true crisis of today, you will find clearly defined the situation that we are in.

The latest research points to very disturbing possibilities if we don't act.

This is a book to get you called to action... a must read and a most important book to share.

Little steps do make a difference. My GREEN PHILOSOPHY.

I've found that the general consensus of green discussions with those that new to this, find that they think that they have to jump in with both feet or don't know enough to even start.  

This is not true unless you just won the lottery and can afford to switch everything all at once and starting small grows to knowledge.

My GREEN PHILOSOPHY:

• Take little steps – as you run out of a product, replace it with a green(er) product. 
• You do not need to break the bank switching things over.  As you try new things you'll just might find that you like the 'greener' one much better.  Remember that headache you used to get?
• Recycle, recycle, recycle – I can not stress this enough.  
• Again you do not need to break the bank - use the blue plastic bags from the grocery store (yes these are recyclable too) and hang it somewhere convenient to put your recycle items in.  You might just surprise yourself once you start doing this how much you really can recycle. 
• Support biodegradable (but be watchful of 'green washing') - we will cover this later in this blog.
• Go organic as much as possible.
• Support your local organic farmers.
• Reuse/renew.  
• Check out this blog for a way to reuse newspaper and make a gift bag out of it.
• Donate.
• Try www.freecycle.org.

Last but not least - I'm here to help anyone that has questions!  I'm a firm believer that there are NO stupid questions.

Karen :)

The excitement begins!!!

MIDNIGHT ~ GRAND OPENING OF GOING4GREEN WEB STORE!!

https://shopopensky.com/going4green

Make your own gift bags!

Newspaper Bags

This is awesome if I may say so myself.  I can't wait to give it a try! How creative can you be?  Please share if you make some!  We would all love to see them.

Thank you "How About Orange" for sharing this great idea!