So, as usual, carmen and I have been awful about posting since we moved to Alaska. I work on computers all day and don’t want to even think about anything more technological than my beloved tivo and carmen works from home on computers all day so the thought of pulling out her laptop to write something, other than on her ravelry page, is too much to bear. How’s that for excuses?

Since we moved to Alaska our lives have become more green in some ways and less green in others.

More Green

• Set up 3 green community blogs, carmen moderates one of them
• Joined a recycling project committee
• Joined a local e waste recycling group
• Volunteered at an e waste recycling event
• Maintain e waste group’s website
• Installed a programmable thermostat
• Hoarding cans to take to the only recycling outfit in town when we get around to it
• Use green cleaning products, soap, and detergent
• Grow our own tomatoes
• Work for a company that promotes sustainability
• Bought a timer for when I have to plug the car in and only let it run for 4 hours as opposed to 10+ hours

Less Green

• Drive 30 miles, round trip, per day to get to work
• NO RECYCLING of paper, plastic or glass (we want to, we just can’t)
• Use more energy to heat the house
• Grow our own tomatoes (it’s an indoor hydroponic garden)
• Use a space heater
• Get take-out that comes in styrofoam containers

Needless to say, things haven’t been perfect but we’re still trying and that was the purpose of this whole project, to try and be more green.

I’m hoping once carmen gets a local job that we’ll be able to spend some time each week blogging again like we used to. I’m still posting on the lea page and carmen has been pretty bad about updating hers, but if you’re on ravelry you can look her up!