FHE My Way

Tonight I forced Mike to have FHE with me. We went to a Thai restaurant, and looked through the latest Time Magazine, which featured an article on 51 things we can do to reduce global warming. I thought Mike would be resistant (he didn't sound at all excited when I first proposed this) but he was actually quite agreeable when we talked about things we can do to reduce our carbon footprint.

We decided to:

a) switch out our regular bulbs with compact fleurescents

b) wrap a blanket around our water heater

c) buy a screen door for our front door so that we won't have to use our AC very much

d) get some new weather stripping for our door

e) wash all our clothes in warm and cold water (no hot) and try to hang dry more of our clothes

f) look into purchasing green power or get solar panels

g) landscape with more CA native plants

h) only do loads of laundry and dishes when they are totally full

i) buy more produce from our farmers market

i) look into getting rid of my gas guzzling VW and buy a PRIUS!