Tiny Choices Survey: Deb!
By tinychoices | October 9, 2009
Vital statistics (name, age, location, link to website/blog)?
Deb, 54, San Francisco Bay Area
How do you reside (apartment or house, roommates)?
In a detached home with my husband.
Are your housing decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
Necessity. Our work dictates that we live on-site in employer provided housing.
How do you travel (transit, car, etc)?Are your travel decisions dictated by choice or necessity? Please explain.
No Commute.
Tell us about a Tiny Choice you’ve made in your life.
As with others, I have been recycling and reusing for years. Most recently I began using a solar oven, installed low flow faucet adapters, started a worm composting bin, set the AC to 80 degrees, recycled batteries and corks, used out-of-date medicine drop off facilities, reduced use of paper products .
What is the one environmental dilemma you personally struggle the most with?
Total lack of conservation in my workplace.
What is one Tiny Choice you can make in that direction?
Recycle where I can and inject money saving suggestions pertinent to eco-friendly alternatives.
What is the one environmental Tiny Choice you make that people question (in either a positive educational or a negative hassle way) you the most about?
Family cloth. To the unfamiliar, this is using cloth wipes and rewashing rather than toilet paper.
What is the one environmental Tiny Choice you would like every single person to adopt?
Stop the throwaway lifestyle. Use handkerchiefs, real silverware, a coffee mug, a refillable fountain pen, say no to plastic shopping bags.
Do you feel like you make sacrifices for environmentalism? Please explain.
No, no true sacrifices, but after having endured losing household water for 3 weeks due to a major water main break, I understand the effort involved to carry in water for everyday use and the focused thought to how that water is used and how the waste water could be reused.
Are you generally: optimistic, pessimistic, neutral about environmentalism and the future?
I am very optimistic. This is a change that everyone can help with and feel like they personally are making a difference. I am excited about the push for and use of new green energy technologies. Big business is seeing that it is profitable to be green and good for their image. The best way to make a change is to vote with your money and be an example. Buy and live green.
Deb’s Note - The photo I am attaching is not of myself but of a sideboard my husband built from a cast off oak church pew and our lamp made from an unused vase, old shade and wiring from an old lamp.
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Deb, I love this! We use cloth wipes too, and they provide such a better wipe! We started when we began cloth diapers and wipes for our kids, and we were like, if cloth works for them, why not us? We too try to use nothing disposable. I just can’t stand all the throwaway stuff people usually use and don’t think twice about.