Andrea's Everything Eco Exploration

After working almost two month with the RCA I have had to deal with almost 9000 aluminum cans, 6750 plastic bottles and 1200 juice boxes. I feel now is a good time to give a PSA. DO:  -Remove caps. This will allow the container s to dry, making them less gross -Rinse the containers! Milk jugs from January smell so rank when we try to crush them down. Pre-rinse and crush your milk jugs! -Finish your drink! (we've dealt with so much half full grossness) DON'T: -Put stuff in the containers. We've found countless cigarette butts, gross paper towels, even a razor blade. -Crush the cans. We've gotten complains that BCMB won't take them, so it'll piss the depots off. -Don't buy bottled water! Try and buy as little single use containers in general. We deal with so much, and that's not even close to how much the ABCRC warehouse (Where all your beverage containers go) sees in a day. Give us a break! The recycling system is good, but it's still using a lot of e

I've been thinking a lot about the bigger picture. I feel that most of us are so distracted with life we never look up to see it. I've never wanted to be successful in the monetary, economic fashion. I never had an urge to own a big house down in the suburbs or drive an SUV. I got off on the idea that I could leave it all behind; that I could live life on my own terms. And every day I am making decisions that bring me closer to where I want to be. It can be really simple, like recycling and picking up litter, and it can be bigger life decisions like going plastic free or growing your own food. No matter the act, as long as it is aimed towards reducing our negative impacts on the environment around us, it won't be in vain. If more people realize that all life on this planet is equally important, we won't treat our neighbors like a perpetual garbage bin.  Nature is home to me. It is where I feel at peace, where I'm rapt with fascination and reduced to childish joy.

One day I would love to have a garden like my mom's here. My dad helped make these individual plots which yeild massive amounts of spinach, carrots peas beans and kale. Growing up with the luxury of a huge garden has taught me the importance of growing your own food, controlling how it is grown and cultivated. It helps take a load off of large scale agriculture and is a much better use of land than grass. two months later this garden now looks like this: So now that I've got my own place I decided to start my own little garden this spring. We got some seeds from the gardening store, some dirt and started planting. We started some chili plants from seed by germinating them in plastic bags and a few weeks later they've sprouted! Super excited for these but the season my be too short for fruit. Here is my sprouted celery butt I've had in a glass of water on my window sill for a few weeks. It grew some roots so I decided to plant it and see how it goes.