Your Exceptional Life » going green http://www.valeriecrowell.com Shining in the shadow of Mount Diablo Tue, 29 Jun 2010 13:15:49 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Green in Contra Costa http://www.valeriecrowell.com/2008/03/13/green-in-contra-costa/ http://www.valeriecrowell.com/2008/03/13/green-in-contra-costa/#comments Thu, 13 Mar 2008 13:22:01 +0000 Valerie Crowell http://www.valeriecrowell.com/?p=9 I just ran across this article about the greenest Cities in America.   Of the top fifty in the nation, seven of them are in the Bay Area.  Number 43 is our very own Concord.  Say what?  Out of all the cities in this country, that’s quite an accomplishment.  San Francisco was number two, not surprising considering their very aggressive recycling program, rooftop solar initiatives, and hybrid busses.  Oakland comes in at number four with a lot a credit going to their hydrogen busses and the Berkeley comes in at number eight.

The San Francisco Chronicle had an interesting article on going green yesterday.  It really is about consuming less.  We have to ask ourselves, do we need to put these three oranges into a plastic bag so that the clerk can put it into a paper bag?  Or can they just go into the cart loose?  Pre-cycling is just as important as re-cycling.

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