Earth Day

While the Willoughbys are still not as green as I would like to be, we have taken some steps toward helping the environment...
Our Earth Day resolutions are to continue with what we are doing and add a few more Earth-friendly practices into our lives.

We have started composting to help reduce the refuse we send to the landfill; also, hopefully, we will have some nice, rich compost in the fall to help amend our soil and add nutrients for the trees and shrubs I hope to plant. While we still are not as diligent as we need to be in adding to our compost pile, hopefully we will get a little better in the year ahead.
Charles has started driving the speed limit to conserve gas!! I still haven't quite brought myself to practice this one!

We also plan to take additional steps in the coming year...
We have a tote that we bought to take to the grocery store for our fruits and veggies to save a few bags each week. We have become complacent and forgetful with this one, but we plan to do better in the coming year.
We keep waiting for our light bulbs to burn out so that we can replace them with energy efficient and Earth-friendly bulbs.
I plan to purchase energy efficient power strips and unplug our small appliances and chargers when they are not in use.
And the one I am most looking forward to, we plan to plant some trees and shrubs in the fall to beautify our yard, to help with air quality and to give a home or at least a resting place to little birds and butterflies.


As is fitting Earth Day, the backyard project is now complete, so the first step in the prep work for fall planting gets a BIG check mark!!

Hope everyone had a Happy Earth Day!