Raul is having a contest and asking entrants to talk about how they are “greening” their Valentine’s Day. Dan and I don’t have any special plans for this Saturday and will probably have a quiet dinner at home, however if we do go anywhere I can guarantee we’ll be taking public transit. And if I win Raul’s contest – a snowshoeing evening on Cypress – we’ll be taking transit there too, since we don’t own a car.
We try to live relatively green all year round. We both walk or take transit pretty much everywhere, and I also cycle quite a bit. We bring reusable bags to the grocery store. And now that we both have real jobs we can afford to start paying more attention to whether those groceries are local and/or organic.
Sadly, I draw the line at composting in our one bedroom apartment! The city of Halifax has been doing “green bin” collection for years and I can’t believe Vancouver doesn’t offer the service yet.
I also find it really weird that Vancouver doesn’t have compost pickup along with garbage & recycling. Back in 1999 when I was Guelph, they already had that!
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Posted by Beth | 13. Feb, 2009, 9:38 amYeah, Halifax has had green bins since at least 1999 as well! For a city that seems so green in other respects, I’m really perplexed that Vancouver hasn’t gotten their act together yet on the composting thing.
I thought about doing vermi-composting at home but a friend who tried it said the little wormies aren’t actually able to compost very much at all, and she ended up throwing out a lot of compostable stuff!
Posted by karen | 13. Feb, 2009, 7:11 pmAwesome! I’ll be drawing the winner later today! (ran out of time this morning!)
Happy Valentine’s Day Karen!
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