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Here are some videos to chronicle our efforts and adventures:
Introduction to the PREVIE challenge: The first PREVIE challenge is to add RETHINK to Reduce, Reuse, Recycle. How can we reduce waste on the front end, by not even bringing it into our world? http://www.youtube.com/v/xPN05ig7k30
The amount of energy required just to recycle is astounding: www.poconorecord.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080506/MULTIMEDIA02/80505016
On Liza’s personal journey, she met a remarkable woman in Canada named Nancy. She stated that when she was at the dump one day, disposing of her trash, she was compelled to sit down, be quiet and present to the moment. What came to her was the vision of herself at the end of her life and the long trail of trash she had generated over the course of her lifetime. She made a commitment at that moment to change her shopping and consumption habits. She stopped buying products in packaging. If she could not avoid the packaging, she was creative in determining how she could use the resources. She used flattened cans behind her oven, to increase the heat. She used colored bottles in a decorative manner in the small, efficient home she was building. Over the course of the next year, she had one bag of trash for the entire year. The impact of plastic on our Earth island is reaching a critical level: http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5524886&page=1
Jim’s introduction to small scale “Posture Gardening”: One way that we can reduce packaging in our shopping is to grow our own food. The plastic bags for lettuce mix, and other small greens can be eliminated with small backyard gardens … http://www.youtube.com/v/Rcr8F6gDEg4
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The PREVIE Challenge |
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Living Simply with Abundance and Joy |
