I like keeping my clothes and altering the look for the season by mixing with other items. For example, I have a cute skirt that I wear with a Christmas shirt. After the holiday, I wear a different sweater with it for the rest of winter, then put a different top with it for the rest of the year. I mix these tops with other bottoms and jeans too for multiple looks. I do this with my pants and shirts/sweater through the year as well.

I learned so much on the tour of the Leveda Brown Environmental Center. I am being more selective in what I purchase and saving containers to reuse. I will also be expanding my classroom teaching unit about plastics so that my students will understand how their daily habits impact our environment and that they can make simple changes to reduce waste.

I hate how much food we waste. Our home needs to minimize the meal amount each day so leftovers can be consumed I. A reasonable amount of time. So by making careful purchasing decisions can help reduce waste. For example, purchase less fruit so can be eaten before going bad, make more frequent purchases in smaller amounts to extend freshness. Just because something if bogo doesn’t mean it is a good deal if goes to waste. Non-perishables can be donated to food pantries.

It’s unfortunate how many factories are creating high volume plastics and dumping waste in water supply, air and ground. This reminded me of the Erin Brokovich story. Another movie is The Distinguished Gentleman where Eddie Murphy is elected as a lawmaker because of his name, but discovers the dirty back room agreements that take place. He realized the dirtiness when he comes across a young girl with cancer due to poison in the environment where her poor family lived. There has to be better ways out there, but much of the problem is the big companies wanting to make the money.

We didn’t realize what defined environmental justice, or how exposed people are to such negatively toxic things. It’s almost sickening thinking of environments I’ve lived or stayed, I can’t imagine what others have been exposed that are not financially stable.