Going Green - Part II

In an earlier post I said we needed to start doing things that were more environmentally friendly. We bought a plastic bin for the kitchen to encourage us to throw more recyclable things in instead of the trash can. And on Sunday I bought reusable shopping bags from Publix, our 2nd favorite grocery store (HyVee is #1). I bought 4 of these bags for 99 cents each. Instead of using 10-12 plastic bags, I filled 2 reusable bags...maybe I didn't need to buy 4!

Side Note - for those of you that do not have a HyVee you don't know what you are missing! It is truly an unbelievable grocery store where you can also eat breakfast/lunch, rent a movie, do your banking, stock up on liquor, drop off your dry cleaning and of course get a white mocha latte from the Starbucks Kiosk.

Going Green

When we were in Iowa a couple weeks ago we saw lots of these windmills between Des Moines and Omaha. They are windmills that collect energy. In these big groups they are called wind farms. Farmers can lease their land to the power companies or they can purchase these

$40k windmills to provide their own electricity or at least cut their costs. There are currently over 600 of these in Iowa that create enough power for 140,000 homes. The ones in northern Iowa cannot be more than 100 feet tall but I'm not sure how big these were. I found this photo online. You can see how little the cars appear to be - so they have to be huge! We all need to find at least a few things we can do to be more environmentally friendly...I'm on the hunt for a few things we can do!