This is a great video on "PAPER or PLASTIC??"

This is a great video on "PAPER or PLASTIC??"

I am thrilled to announce the new website we made just for The Suburban Shopping System. Please check out www.Suburbanshoppingsystem.com and let me know what you think.

I am excited to announce that I am a finalist in the Martha Stewart American Made Awards - and I need your votes! The winner of the American Made Awards is awarded a $10,000 grant, a feature in Martha Stewart Magazine and the opportunity to grow their business. This award would allow me to expand my product line in fun and exciting new ways! The winner is decided by YOU and your votes. You can vote for me once a day, everyday, until the winner is announced on September 24th. Please vote for me right here!! http://americanmade.marthastewart.com/profiles/deanna-reposa-642

Meatless in May

Last week I received a challenge for the month of May. The challenge = go without meat for the month to help bring awareness to the environmental impact of animal consumption .

Even though I consider myself 80% vegetarian I felt like I needed more than ones days notice to ponder changes in my diet. Although after reading about the negative effects of animal meat production on the environment I am trying to make the commitment.

Here is what The Daily Thread shared with me...Besides giving you too many extra inches around the middle and increasing risk for heart disease, meat consumption accounts for a large portion of global green house gases. The production and raising of livestock uses 30% of the Earth’s arable land for pasture, an additional 33% of the land to grow and cultivate their feed and 5,000 gallons of water to produce a single pound of meat (compare that to the 25 gallons of water that to produce one pound of wheat). Cattle also contribute substantial amounts of pollution to the water supply due to manure, antibiotics and the pesticides used to produce their food. In fact if we each chose to go meatless this month, we can individually keep up to 420 lbs of carbon emissions out of the air (for our first campaign with 200 participants we kept over 80,000 lbs of CO2 from entering the atmosphere).

I'm giving it a try.

World Water Day

Today is World Water Day. As we use what seems like an unlimited supply of water today while showering, brushing teeth, cooking, etc. Take a minute and think about what it would be like without one of life's basic needs. Water is truly amazing to me, and much to my wine-drinking husband's dismay, it is my drink of choice. When creating Simple Peace with the mission of helping others, I wanted to concentrate on the basic needs of humans. One of those basic needs is water and the people of Charity Water have the best model for helping those in need. Today is the official launch of Unshaken. www.charitywater.org/unshaken/ Take a look and help if you can. Thanks