Green Stuff

Earth911 is a great resource for tips on recycling and local listings for stuff that isn't so easy to recycle like electronics, batteries and cd's.

Speaking of CD's, here is a site that recycles cd's at no charge, you just ship them.

Did you know that you can drop off your old worn out athletic shoes and Nike uses the parts to make different parts of sport surfaces and playgrounds?

Check out this article from Harvard Medical School.  Most drugs are safe and effective much past their expiration date.  Ok I suppose this is a bit of a stretch to be a "green" article, but it would keep some stuff out of the trash and save you some green!

And if you do have to dispose of any medications, Don't Flush Them!!!

Do you use reusable shopping bags and recycle plastic bags that you do end up with?

It's that time again...

Over the next few days I'll be backdating a bunch of posts from earlier this year.  I want to get started on making my photo book of our 2008 happenings and need to get things organized.   I have a bunch of drafts to add pictures to and get posted.  So if you see some crazy old posts in your feeds you'll know what I'm up to.  :o)

How cool is this

I decided I needed a new look for my plain jane blog and found this site from a scrapping site I frequent. Super easy to put a background while still using a blogger template so I didn't have to do much HTML crap. Here is a link to the post that explains how to use her most awesome scrapbook-esque backgrounds.