PROJECT GENESIS 3/1/11

Achieving perfection in anything is difficult.

At times, we can only give it our best shot,

 and hope it counts for enough.

Recycling is grand, but not purchasing items

that need to be recycled is one better, or so I thought.

I know that the safest, most tested water

 comes directly from our taps,

but I'm not always a huge fan of the taste.

Having a fridge filter,which by the way ends 
up in a landfill, or using a pitcher type
 filter is the best alternative

 to not purchasing bottled water, 

even though the plastic is recyclable.

I covered that in another PG... many of our plastic bottles

 sit in landfills in India after being 

shipped using fossil fuels.. OK,

you know the drill and comprehend my guilt... 
because...

Shame on me, I started purchasing these
 to make my cold brew tea.

I justified it by knowing that I would use 

at least 24 empties for emergency water storage.

When I had used those 24, I promptly 
gave a dozen to a client to use for her 

emergency storage, then another 12 to a friend.

Since I cannot always count on knowing someone who

 will accept a dozen, even though EVERYONE should 

have emergency water storage, I had to determine

 if I could continue this luxury, without tremendous guilt.

Put your recycling where your mouth is Suzan.

Last week I was faced with 8 empties.

Guilt rained down like a toxic cloud.

At Target yesterday, perusing the $1.00 section,

  I loaded several sets of little pots into

 my cart to use inside my drawers for organizing,

when the proverbial light bulb arose. 

I already had containers at home if I just

 cut off the bottom of the bottles. WOOT!

only 1 problem..I still had the tops! ARGH!

Shazam! 

Poke a teeny hole in the cap and you have

 a way to slow water outdoor pots while away from home.

Cut the cap part off and you have a shield 

or mini greenhouse for small seedlings!
(Use your imagination, no seedlings here)

Oh, guilt be gone! 

Well, until I accumulate too many again...sigh

Anyone need drawer organizers? Anyone?


This bears repeating from an earlier 
Project Genesis post. If you have 
not viewed The Story of Stuff,
you really should educate yourself and 
those that you love.

Please join us! It truly helps.  

The planet matters. 


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Just got a notice from link...seems there is a slow down today

"About the site slowdown today:

I worked hand in hand with my hosting service today and we narrowed down the one and only issue: thumbnail images.

The retrieval and downloading of HUNDREDS OF THOUSANDS of thumbnail images when your visitors view a Thumbnail Linky on your blogs is causing the overall webserver that hosts Linky Tools to slow down." 

THE SOLUTION:   

The solution is to have JUST the thumbnail images hosted on their own dedicated server. So I just spent all the subscription income to buy a server and have it hooked up to a very fast internet connection.

There will be NO interruption in service when the new thumbnail server goes online, however IT IS GOING TO TAKE 2-3 DAYS TO MAKE THIS HAPPEN.  I’m praying there won’t be any website slowdowns in the meantime,  like there were today, but I have no way of knowing or guaranteeing that."
Don't know exactly what this means to our link for
PG but one link has already made it through, 
so keeping fingers crossed.