Well, it's plain to see, that I may have "blog" followers, but they don't really say much, and I really don't have that many followers as it is.
I know that sports, entertainment and food are way more interesting than a blog on how to keep our planet clean, but I am very surprised with all the hype about going "green" and all, that some of you, especially you vegans, haven't come on board to help me out with posts on keeping our outside clean as you talk about keeping your insides clean. Tips on buying healthy food with biodegradable materials, such as my miso soup with a bio bowl post on 03/01/10.
After all, it goes hand-in-glove, if you are putting healthy things in your body, you have to have them coming from a healthy place. And this earth has more filth and gunk in her than she ever has before. So we need to come full circle in this with the realization that we need to start with a good foundation to build a solid structure.
I have made a commitment to bring my shopping bags into all types of stores instead of walking out with paper or plastic bags from where I shopped. Not just in grocery stores, but anywhere I would purchase products, clothes, office supplies, or whatever.
One gal told me, that she had told herself, if she forgets her bag in the car when she goes to check-out she will have to hand-carry her stuff out to the car because she won't take a bag from the store. So that's what helps her to remember to bring her bag with her when she goes shopping.
This is everybody's problem. It's not just the Sanitation Department's problem or the folks who get paid to haul off junk. It has to go somewhere, and it is, and it all comes back through the food-chain, animal, vegetable and mineral.

I bring my canvas bags into the Ralphs or the Albertson's and the Trader Joe's. I keep them in my trunk. But sometimes I forget. Good idea. Wish more of us was doing this. (There used to be a story and a photo of this floating plastic garbage island in the middle of the Pacific Ocean. That is waste collecting out there. Makes you really want to change over to canvas or re-use bags.
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