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When I travel to India once or twice a year to visit and help my mother who is in the 90s, do we share the air travel carbon footprint?  I could move to India, but then I'd be away from my US family.  Isn't this the dilemma of first generation immigrants?

I'm chipping away at my earth unfriendly habits one ecochallenge at a time.  

I'm going paperless with my medical correspondence and records a Kaiser.  Also, going paperless for other bills.  I did discover, however, that my insurance company won't even email me a bill to give me a heads up about renewing my policy annually.  I can put it in my calendar to check on the website, but, oh dear, what if I forget?!  I'm...

Reusing and up cycling are two activities that require creativity.  If I have a need for something, I ask, “What else could serve the same purpose.” If I have something I no longer need, I ask, “What other purpose could this serve?”

On vacation with my family now and trying to avoid single use plastic but, wow, it’s hard to do. I have responded to a satisfaction survey at the hotel we’re staying, praising them for the sustainable practices and suggesting improvements they could make.

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I’m Mari Kondo-ing my kitchen drawers. So much clutter, so many tools I no longer use. Big opportunity to get those heart-shaped hot cake molds back in circulation.  Little kids love ❤️ hot cakes.