Adopt- A -Green Space

I grabbed the flyer at the community center today( I dunno if you read my comment on the other post or not) and it seems like this adopt a green space program may be just what we are looking for!

A quick summary of what it is :
We adopt a space somewhere is Santa Rosa ( Sarah B. I know you don't live here, but would you still be interested?). As a community group (Green Mommies) we would commit to that space for a whole year. We would clean it up, weed, perhaps plants some flowers and just maintain it in general. A month after adopting the site they will put up a metal sign in our space that says "This Green site adopted by Green Mommies of Santa Rosa", or something like that...

I think that this would be a GREAT experience and educational opportunity for all of our kids! It would be fun to meet up at "our" site once in a while and have a clean up day or something like that...

I am really excited about this idea, what are all of your thoughts? It doesn't have to cost any money, just a commitment of time and energy. If there is another program that everyone likes better I am all for that too, I just really like the whole concept.

Hanging Out Day

You may or may not know that I DESPISE laundry and anything to do with it. I often procrastinate and then complain the whole day that I have to do it. So the fact that I am willing to try this is a little nutty but here it goes... I read this article on one of the blogs I read and am wondering if anyone is willing to try this with me... for the day.

"Mark this down in your calendar: April 19 is National Hanging Out day, which is not about slackers but about hanging out your slacks, a celebration of the clothesline as an alternative to the dryer. Founded by clothesline activist Alexander Lee of laundrylist.org, it champions "the right to dry" which many people do not have due to building regulations and restrictive covenants prohibiting "ugly" clotheslines. Yet clothes dried on lines last longer, smell better and save you a lot of money.

There are 88 million dryers in America, and if everyone converted to lines it could reduce residential output of CO2 by 3.3%. “It’s a huge waste of energy to tumble dry your clothes,” said Tom Arnold, chief environmental officer of TerraPass. “It’s one of the simplest things to do to help with global warming.” ::New York Times"

I know Emily already does this... I am going to give it a try. I already have the line and clothespins...

Purchase Dilemma

I want to get some sort of shade cover for our backyard. I was thinking one of those gazebo things that Target is selling, but I would like to make the most green decision. Any ideas?

If you have a purchase dilemma, feel free to post it here and we can try to help each other out. I’m going to invite some more people to join the blog and anyone reading can feel free to do so too.