Water, water everywhere...

We have water restrictions on in our community. They have been on since the 1st of May and they are fairly easy restrictions to follow. Even numbered houses water on Wednesdays and Saturdays from 4:00 a.m. to 9:00 a.m., 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. and odd numbered houses water on Thursdays and Sundays....same time...you get the drift. Now the wierd thing about unenforced water restrictions is just that....they are unenforced. The only pennance you receive for watering beyond the restricted hours is losing your neighbour's respect and you know, sometimes that is enough. Peer pressure is sometimes all it takes.  

Greetings and salutations

You know when you don't do something that you are supposed to do and the longer that you leave it undone, the harder it gets to do? Well, that is what it is like writing in a blog. Unless you commit to writing regularly, it gets forgotten. Well I am back and I will be blogging regularly (here I go, setting myself up for failure.....)

I have almost finished reading "Sleeping Naked is Green" by Vanessa Farquharson. She committed to 365 acts of green, wrote a blog about it and then turned it into a book. She doesn't set out to write a resource book, she isn't writing it as a how to, she is just telling it like it was for her and with that comes some laughs and insight on how difficult it can be. I am enjoying it.

I am reading two books at the same time though. One is "Sleeping Naked is Green" and the other is "Slow Death by Rubber Duck". So I laugh a little reading Sleeping Naked and then cry a little reading Slow Death. Slow Death is a much darker book and is about how the toxic chemistry of everyday life affects our heath.....not a comedy that is for sure.

Now all I can think about now is the pacifier than my children had in their mouth for days, months, years!! Or the teething ring, or the rattle that they chewed on. Sorry kids....I honestly didn't know any better at the time.

The best part of reading books like these is that it makes you think and it makes you question and that is half the battle isn't it?

Until tomorrow.....

J

Earth Hour 2009!

I was fortunate enough to spend earth hour with Jennifer at her cafe, "Under the Willow". It was dubbed, "Acoustics by Candlelight" and was just a nice evening. The whole cafe was lit with flickering candles and there were so many people connecting with one another, listening to music, brought together by a common bond. I felt peaceful and content. Lets not wait til next year folks....lets have earth hour every day!

Like a bad dream...

I had a sudden jolt back to reality this evening. I attended a dinner where they served bottled water, used paper napkins, clear plastic wine glasses, styrofoam coffee cups and plastic forks. I was shocked. I guess I have been so immersed into greening my own events that I have forgotten that there are alot of individuals who have no idea how much what they do impacts the environment. 

What do I do? I think I will send them an email introducing myself, what our company does and invite them to a workshop. Baby steps....

Chamber of Commerce presentation today!

Jennifer and I were fortunate enough to be invited to speak at the Dawson Creek Chamber of Commerce luncheon today. We chose to speak about "Greening the Hospitality Industry" knowing that not everyone in the audience would relate to our statistics, but feeling that it was important to get the numbers out. The hospitality industry has the opportunity to affect so many.

All in all, it was a good presentation. I was pleased at the content and the response. Hopefully we made a difference.

Judy