Healthy personal habits often coincide with environmentally-responsible practices. Healthy individuals comprise healthy communities.

There is a recycling facility across from our campus in Lake Forest. Furthermore, I’ve spent at least 209 hours, if not more, looking for organizations and individuals to take my baby furniture and other supplies so that they don’t end up in landfills. There is an organization in Gurnee that takes gently-used baby supplies and donates them to families who need them. Since children grow out of many of these products while they are still I. perfectly-good condition it is a responsible practice to look for ways to donate or sell them so they are not discarded in landfills. 

I visited the waste transfer station down the street from my house. There is currently an air quality study being conducted in the vicinity of the transfer station and its impact to the community.

I cannot work from home in my field, but I am happy that my spouse can and does. This allows our family’s overall impact to be less.

Our dollars are powerful, and it makes a difference what we do with them, especially with our investments. We can motivate corporations to use more responsible practices if we let our money talk.

I will use teleconferencing instead of traveling by plane. I hope to use trains next time.

They are beautiful and also produce oxygen while eliminating CO2.

Lake Michigan is the major water source in this region