Sustainable Argument

I’ve blogged several times about water conservation and usage. (Here, here, here, and here, for a few)
Word gets around (apparently) because someone asked me recently if I thought water down the drain was gone for good and not reusable.
Of course not, I replied.
Then why did I care how much water I used?
Here’s the best argument [...]

A Worthwhile Cause?

Not every cause promises to change one’s life.  If I jump on board with this one, mine would surely be very different. I read this morning, on a General Board of Church and Society note, about Killer Coke.
I’ve blogged about my love of Diet Coke before.  In fact, I found a post about the stuff [...]

Addicted Land?

As I’ve probably shared here already, Rachel and I gave up meat for Lent this year.  It was a very interested time for us; Rachel has barely gone back to eating meat, and I am eating far less than I used to.
I posted a facebook status Tuesday afternoon that I hadn’t “eaten meat since Sunday [...]

Get Wormy

I’ve been wanting to share this with you for some time now.  A year and a half ago Rachel and I became farmers. Worm Farmers.  You can see our vermicomposter, or worm farm, in the picture to the left.
We tried starting a compost pile in our back yard, but there are too many critters aruond, [...]

Earth Day 2009

I usually realize it is earth day sometime after 6 p.m.  This year, I am ahead of schedule!
As I walked to and from the administration building here on campus (our campus is 130 acres),  I considered, in honor of Earth Day, to pick up every piece of litter I saw along the way.  I didn’t [...]

It’s a Beautiful Day for Public Transportation!

This morning I am finally venturing into the world of Waco public transportation. Rachel and I share a car, as I’ve mentioned here before.
Today I am going to a meeting in Fort Worth, but Rachel isn’t.  Instead of renting a car, I have picked up a ride with another pastor who was going anyway – [...]

Kick the (water) Bottle

In 2006, Americans wasted 1.5 million barrels of oil – and that was just to make the plastic to hold the bottled water we drank.
That is enough oil for 100,000 for the year.  Kick the plastic water bottle. Don’t kick it to the curb, though; pick it up and recycle it!
We currently only recycle [...]

Drive Less without having to stay @ Home

Rachel and I are on the go a lot.  This morning I am in Dallas, having dropped Rachel at DFW for a flight to Atlanta.  I am early for a three day meeting in Dallas that begins at noon.
A year and a half ago we downsized to one car. The previous year we had each [...]

Christmas Trash

This is the total amount of non-recyclable or non-reusable trash Rachel and I had from Christmas gifting this morning.  May you and yours recycle most, if not all of your wrappage be reuseable or recylable this year and for ever!

College Food Service goes “Green”

College food services are ditching the trays we all used to use.  In doing so, they are decreasing food waste, saving water and electricity.  Good idea.  Check it out:
Georgia Tech, enrollment 18,000, has saved 3,000 gallons of water per day without trays, she said.
The 50,000-student University of Florida estimates it will save 470,000 gallons annually. [...]