I debated this morning whether or not to blog about a certain blonde, right-wing idiot...and decided she's taking up enough space in the blogosphere.  Instead, a little update on the Greening of Laura.

Two major items this week...the arrival of my Sigg re-usable water bottles.  Dan and I used to go through a case of bottled water each week at a minimum.  By using filtered water from our faucets, we've been able to reduce that to a case of water twice a month.  With these new reusable bottles, I'll be off bottled water at the gym and we should be down to a case of water every month.  Breaking out my calculator, that translates to 864 fewer plastic bottles (minimum) per year just from lil' ol' us. 

I got the Sigg with the blue flowers for me and the modern dots one for Dan.  Now if I can just develop the habit of using the Sigg on trips, I'll be good.

Habit is a good segue to the other green topic of the week--reusable shopping bags.  I've got a plentiful stock now (7 reusable bags--five in my car and two in Dan's).  Of the six times I went shopping this week, I remembered to use the bags five times.  Of the five times I used the bags, I remembered to take them into the store exactly once.  And that was at the Farmer's Market this morning.  <sigh> 

I'm at least glad that I remembered to park the cart and get the bags sooner in the process of shopping.  Now if I can figure out a way to remind myself to take the bags into the store with me, life will be a bit easier.  In the meantime, I'm comforting myself with the thought that the extra trip to and from the car means more exercise.  That's a good thing, right?

My calculation on one use shopping bags avoided this week is that I avoided using 20 plastic bags.  In a year, at this rate, I will have saved 1,040 bags all by my lonesome.  It may be a small contribution, but it's a contribution I can easily make.  As long as I remember those darn bags.

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