Maybe this is where my environmentalism comes from:

I said I wanna touch the earth
I wanna break it in my hands
I wanna grow something wild and unruly
I wanna sleep on the hard ground in the comfort of your arms
On a pillow of blue bonnets in a blanket made of stars

Oh it sounds good to me, I said

Cowboy take me away
Fly this girl as high as you can into the wild blue
Set me free oh I pray closer to heaven above and closer to you
Closer to you

I wanna walk and not run
I wanna skip and not fall
I wanna look at the horizon and not see a building standing tall
I wanna be the only one, for miles and miles
Except for maybe, and your simple smile


(Dixie Chicks)

Pure Awesome

One less thing for the landfill

In my quest to eliminate the amount of waste I produce I have always been troubled by the toothbrush/toothpaste dilemma. I am not a person willing to forgo some clean teeth, well, at least not permanently. Should a person merely use the toothbrush longer than the three months recommended by the American Dentists Association in order to decrease the number of toothbrushes used over time? Well, I already do that (coupled with boiling water to kill germs) but it just doesn't seem like enough.

I like the sound and look of these toothbrushes. Unfortunately shipping them from Australia isn't exactly going to be helping my initial problem of waste.

http://environmentaltoothbrush.com.au/

So, I found and settled with this one. I don't actually need it yet so it will sit in my drawer for a while (sorry, no review). 2.99 isn't a bad price and finding it at target (less than a mile from my house) is a plus for convenience and transportation cost/impact. It's packaging doubles as a postage paid envelope to be sent back at the end of it's life for recycling. No landfill for this one!

http://www.preserveproducts.com/products/personalcare/toothbrush-mail-back-pack.html

Another Step in Recycling

I dread throwing the tops off of bottles and abhor throwing out whole empty plastic tubes like the one formerly filled with velocity face wash I just finally finished. So, my depressing empty tube of velocity spurred me into a frenzy of internet searches until I found these two websites:

AVEDA cap recycling
Origins tube recycling

So, sometime this week (possibly today if I make it) I will take a daring trip to that scary place some refer to as "The Mall"--bag of recycling in hand--and ask the ladies at the counter if they would be so kind to recycle an empty velocity bottle for me.