Going green

By Roger Saner
Below is the list of ways our community is committed to being "green" this year.

1. 5 minute showers or less!
2. Save water washing dishes and clohting
3. Turn off lights when you leave a room
4. Compost
5. Vegetable garden
6. Walk or ride bikes
7. Car pool
8. Cook together
9. Eat less meat
10. Plant lime tree
11. Use non-chemical cleaning agents
12. Electricity free day
13. Carbon footprint
14. Set water heater to a timer
15. Place brick in each toilet tank to reduce water use
 

5 comments so far.

  1. Unknown February 19, 2008 at 12:15 PM
    10. Plant lime tree ????
  2. Anonymous February 19, 2008 at 1:19 PM
    Ya I was wondering about the lime tree too...

    A bunch of folk from our church are doing a carbon fast for lent...unfortunately I didn't make it past the day that I was meant to purchase draught excluders...baaaagh.
    I'm inspired now to plant a lime tree.

    http://www.tearfund.org/Churches/Carbon+fast+new/
  3. Roger Saner February 19, 2008 at 2:19 PM
    Ja, the lime tree is for the margaritas. And they're hard to find. But they're green. So, a way our community is going green is to plant a tree which gives us green fruit. Hooray!

    Thanks for the carbon link, Jenny. An interesting thing to give up for Lent!
  4. Anonymous February 22, 2008 at 11:00 AM
    My friend Jonothan works for the city council in the Waste Management department. At one of his parties I asked his collegue why Cape Town council doesn't insist on seperating rubbish into bio degradable and not. She said that they tried that once and it literally caused a furore amoung the street people. Fights were breaking out over the contents and people were getting killed. I was quite shocked. It never occured to me that this might be an issue. Interesting! So I am afraid we're left to do it ourselves. Just how does one start??? I think there should be websites where you can go to find out where to take your glass, your cardboard ect ect. There probably are...any light???
  5. Unknown February 25, 2008 at 9:54 AM
    16. Take the stars instead of the lift. (Not only saves electricity but helps you burn off all that pasta that you're eating instead of meat!)

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