Lately most of the world has been focusing on ‘greening’ up our lives, making it a better world for our future generations (and for us to enjoy too!).   I have seen many articles and blog posts on this topic and wanted show you some wonderful things that I found!  Reduce, reuse recycle

When going grocery shopping I make sure to always use my re-usable bags. I have 3 bags, 2 large ones and 1 smaller ones and my groceries always fit! I find myself getting mad inside when I see people using plastic bags, it’s so easy to switch over to re-usable bags, and much better for the earth.

One thing that still bugs me is the plastic bags that you put your fruit and vegetables in. I try not to use them, but sometimes you need to have something to keep your fruit together (who wants 5 peaches floating around in their grocery bags, not me).  Then I came across this website that made their own string bag for produce at the grocery store! What a fantastic idea. I’ve yet to make one (Mom wanna lend me a sewing machine?)

(Source: Instructables)

The website has a step by step process for making the string bag, these are very simple to make!  The fabric they used was tulle netting, in all sorts of fun colours!

The 2nd thing I found is on etsy. The shop is called thegreenmarket, and the owner basically makes refils for swiffer products that can be used over and over! I do like swiffer products but hate that it causes a lot of waste and this is a great solution. (Again I’m sure this would be very simple to make).  Here’s an example of the duster product.

(Source: thegreenmarket)

Kristal also had some great things to say about going green, make sure to check out what she does to help the planet!

Other things I do for the environment? Recycle. Use re-usable water bottles. Never leave my car running. Carpool. and that’s just to name a few.

There are so many simple ways to green up your life, what are you doing to help?  Come on! Jump on the bandwagon!

And something to inspire you.