Color me green

quote of the day:

Kermit the Frog

photo courtesy of http://www.iecforum.org

Kermit is a wise, wise frog.  I definitely agree that it's not easy being green, but I'm trying my best to be a little greener every day.  To further my efforts, I started writing a "Color me Green" series of lenses on Squidoo.  I'll showcase some creative ways that will help you darken your shade of green, and hope you have fun along the way.  I chose to do my first lens in the series on being plastic bag free, which I'm very proud to be!  Here's a bit of the intro:

I consider myself to be a light shade of green, sage perhaps, but am diligently working my way up to forest green.  I truly care about the status of our often under-appreciated environment, and have my Dad to thank for instilling some "green" in me from a young age.  He's the closest person to forest green I know, and I admire him for respecting Mother Earth the way he does.  My Dad is in his seventies, and his choice of transportation is still his bicycle.  He washes and reuses not only plastic and Styrofoam containers, but even those Dixie brand paper plates that already have oil stains on them--no joke!  On occasion, I've witnessed him rinsing and hanging paper towels on the dishrack . . . he's even the type to reuse a trash bag until it starts to deteriorate from grody liquid spillage, and/or emits an odor that rivals rotten eggs, stinky feet, and morning breath combined--God bless him!  He's the shade of green I'm working towards, and I look forward to getting there someday.  

Click on the link below if you'd like to read more of this lens.

http://www.squidoo.com/proud-to-be-plastic-bag-free

Thanks for making me a part of your day!  Happy Monday :o)