Make a change

Hello. It is kinda sad that whenever I write on my blog. I have the sudden urge to say "Hello fellow bloggers, long time no see. I promise I'll start posting on a regular basis." Infact we all know that's not gonna happen. Life happens, I need to deal with that. I need to come to reality that I'm not going to really blog 7 days out of the week. Although it would be nice, truth is my life isn't really that exciting. I'll post like 1 whole week just because something interesting came up everyday that week. But for the other 51 weeks it's not that entertaining. But so my new posts should infact start with SURPRISE! Here I am! I'm not dead yet!

So this weekend was "Thinking day" for girl scouts. From my understanding it's a way for your unit to get to know other girl scouts around the world. There were a ton of girls at Saturday's event. I couldn't guess how much. I always exaggerate. When I say 400 there's really like 100. So I'm gonna say there were 400 girls attending yesterday's event. We learned about disasters and what to do in emergency situations. And we learned what the girl scouts did to help in areas where disasters happened. It was quite an interesting day. The juniors ages 11-13 put it all together & they all did a fabulous job!

We also learned about recycling from an Oakview teacher. She was an excellent speaker. She spoke about two 11 year olds who were I believe trying to earn their silver & gold badge. They learned that most food products were made from Palm Oil. Which Palm Oil is from rain forests. Because of the demand I guess they were cutting rain forests down. Forcing the Orangutangs to go almost extinct. How awful is that! So they soon discovered that girl scout cookies were using Palm Oil. It took 5 years for the girl scouts to change using Palm Oil in there cookies! Now they stopped using it in some cookies. They couldn't change them all because the flavor would completely change, so they promised to use little as possible & they will subsidize sustainable palm oil by purchasing something called a GreenPalm. Kellogg also has followed doing this. How about that! How great where these two little girls from Michigan making a change! Way to go girls!


She also showed all the girls how to pack the lunches without so much trash. She said when she goes out to dinner. She stopped asking for "to go" or "doggy bag" containers. Because most restaurants give Styrofoam. And we all know that styrofoam isn't biodegradable. So she started keeping Tupperware containers in her car & using those instead. Kaleighan & I looked at each other & thought "WHAT A GREAT IDEA!" After the event we went to purchase new Tupperware, utensils, fabric napkins & a bag to load it all in. From now on if you see our family with our handy objects in a bag & want to laugh. Laugh all you want. We're only 4 people but hopefully others will see us & follow our example in trying to save our planet.


Other things you can do:
Recycle
Carry our own bags into the grocery store.
If the items are small opt not to have a bag & just carry the items.
Turn of the water when your brushing your teeth
Start a compost
There are many other ways to help the environment. These are just a few we do.

Have a great evening everyone!