I feel like a poor example of Green Living lately. Used to be that I could go almost a month between gas tank fill ups on the Volvo. But since opening the store I’ve logged almost 600 miles in six weeks! Some days it seems like I’m making two or three trips back and forth to town to go to the shop, pick up or drop off a child from school or make an emergency ginger ale run. (I forgot to mention last week the stomach flu hit our house! Thankfully I dodged that bullet.)

I also feel like I’ve been generating a disproportionate amount of garbage lately. Everyday I leave the shop with the back end of the station wagon loaded with garbage. Most of it is cardboard boxes from shipments and I do recycle so I’m not a total loser. But there is still a lot of plastic packaging in some of those shipments that isn’t recyclable.

In an effort to up my Green Points, tomorrow I plan to make a few Eco-Bags; fabric shopping bags to use instead of paper or plastic. I’ve looked at a few tutorials and patterns on the net but think I’ll just draft my own pattern. I also added two classes to the May class schedule so you can learn to make your own Earth Friendly Shopping Bags.

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