Attempts to have a Low-Impact Effect on the Environment

Phil and I watched a documentary the other day about the "No-Impact Man."  To make a long story short, he, his wife, and his 2-year old daughter live in NYC and spent a year trying to make no impact on the environment around them.  Now, I don't know that we will go so far as to use cloths instead of toilet paper, turn off all electricity, only purchase food that has been grown within a 250 mile radius, or stop driving our cars, but it provided food for thought.  Here are a few examples of how we have lived low-impact in that last 24 hours.

- ate dinner by candlelight
- asked for paper instead of plastic at the grocery store

Obviously, we haven't done a whole lot to lessen the impact we have on the environment so far, but I guess the whole point is that we are thinking about it more.  My new goals?  I have to go grocery shopping this afternoon.  I will be driving, but I am going to take cloth bags along with me so I don't need to ask for paper or plastic.  Baby steps!

Thankfulness

1. Not having to wake up to an alarm clock
2. Watching Ariel stalk a fly
3. Pumpkins growing
4. Sun streaming in through the window
5. The feel of fall in the air