Reduce Your Use of Paper Towels

I rarely buy paper towels and when I do, it cracks me up how quickly we go through them. When I use cloth it's like I don't notice how much I am wiping up spills and stuff. Reducing your use of paper towels is as easy as putting a cloth towel in your kitchen. Buy or make several; you can often find inexpensive kitchen towels at your local discount store. They will pay for themselves quickly as you will no longer spend money on paper towels. We rarely buy them; only for parties or having large groups of family over.

Then when you do buy paper towels, look for ones made from recycle paper, whitened without chlorine, & safe for use in septic systems.

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Do Treehuggers Pretend They Are No Longer Responsible?

I certainly don't pretend to no longer have any complicity in 'the environmental problem' because of the choices I have made to actively reduce my impact on the environment. No one I know who lives the way I do or even more extreme pretends to no longer have any complicity in the environmental problem. We are simply people who are trying to do the best we can, and I for one am tired of people telling me or implying that I am doing wrong or pretending something I am not by the choices I make for my life. Sharing this information is sharing knowledge that may help other people see ways they can lessen their impact.

That is my intention, not to put forth these ways as the ultimate or ideal solution. If people hadn't shared their knowledge with me, it is highly probable I'd still be throwing my newspapers out with the garbage and I'd definitely have little idea of building an eco-friendly house or cloth pads or any of the choices I have made. The lives of my children and the lives of my friends' children would be very different...we are not raising kids who feel passive or indifferent or even scared about the environment like so many other kids are. Our children feel like they are doing something and when they are grown they will be able to do even more.

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