Going Green!

My hope for this is that we can share with each other how we are going "green". These are the things that work for our family! Can't wait to hear what works for yours!

1. Breastfeeding, saves bottles, water, cans of formula, really impacts the whole world, if more people breastfed there would be healthier children, less visits to the Doctors, less people receiving free formula from WIC, hence less formula cans etc.. Really it would save the world billions of dollars each year.
2. Recycling everything that we can
3. Cloth diapers, need I say more?
4. I use a product called a "Diva Cup", if you want to know what it is just google it, saves a ton of money and, well, just go read about it!
5. No plastic sippy cups
6. We only buy organic and shop places like Whole foods that supports local farmers, when they can.
7. We use cloths, like napkins and old baby wash cloths to clean with and wipe Thomas down with, saves a TON of paper towels.
8. We use those light bulbs, not sure what they are called.
9. We "try" not to touch our thermostat once we have it set on something.
10. Don't leave water running while brushing our teeth, try to do only larger loads of laundry and run the dishwasher when it is full.
11. Buy recycled paper for the printer, recycled paper towels and toliet paper.
12. Recycle old cell phones, printer cartridges, etc..
13. We have half a dozen cloth grocery bags that we take when we go shopping. You would not believe what fits into a few cloth bags vs plastic bags, a $150.00 shop fits into 5 of our bags, if we were using plastic it would be 15 plastic bags or so, less trips in from the car too!
14. We use Vinegar and water to clean with and or safe products from Eart Fare that dont release those chemicals into the atmosphere. ( I remembered this just now as I was scrubbing the crayons off of the kitchen table! )
What about you? Can't wait to hear!!