Vintage Milk Returnable Bottle As a boy, I remember milk being delivered to our house by the milkman.  Delivery was once a week for us and early in the morning.  We would leave our 1/2 or gallon empty (glass) milk bottles on the porch at night before delivery the next day and, typically, fresh milk … Continue reading Those Were The Days →

It's off. When I was a boy, probably 9 or 10, my dad told me I needed to do a better job of turning off lights when I left a room.  I didn’t think that was a problem but he did.  So much so that he instituted a policy that,  if I left a room … Continue reading Turn Out The Lights →

Where's the opener? I like beer, perhaps not as much as our most recently appointed Supreme Court Justice, but still, a nice cold beer is delicious and goes with so many foods.  Did you see the Budweiser ad during the Super Bowl?  It featured, perhaps my favorite songwriter, Bob Dylan, singing Blowin’ in the Wind.  … Continue reading Local Sourcing →

Garage with "Too Much Stuff" One of my favorite musical artists is Delbert McClinton and one of my favorite songs he sings is Too Much Stuff.  It’s upbeat and the lyrics are great… and the song examines a lifestyle that is “consumption” oriented.  Reducing my personal consumption is something I plan to do.  Why?  Well, … Continue reading Too Much Stuff →

A few years ago our son and daughter-in-law gave my wife and I metal, reusable “to-go” cups from Starbucks.  I started using it as my “water bottle” that I kept in the refrigerator.  This new cup displaced my occasional use of purchased plastic water bottles. Later I started carrying the Starbucks cup with me – … Continue reading Single-Use Plastic →

Speaking of eating, what I eat (and I like to eat) has an impact on the planet and that impact is much larger than I thought.  With a few clicks, one can find a significant amount of research on the subject of red meat and its impact on the environment. I was surprised that the … Continue reading Less Beef, Less Carbon →

We’re going to be taking a trip by car in a few days and we usually stop for fast food while on the road.  I did some on-line searches to see which fast food companies (that we might consider) offered their products in containers that were “more friendly” to the environment.  This would include packaging … Continue reading Fast Food Packaging →

This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein In December, 2018, my son gave me a book, This Changes Everything by Naomi Klein.  It’s a book about Climate Change.  It describes how our civilization is destroying our planet – and the impacts associated with our actions – and how we, as a society, must change in order … Continue reading Why? →