Dark clouds, spitting rain and an uncomfortable chill were our companions for morning coffee on Saturday. It was pretty dispiriting. Did we really have to go outside and get things done? By the time we finished our morning ablutions and discussions on the day’s plan, the clouds had cleared a bit — in the sky, [...]
Archive for August, 2010
Week 34: Spontaneous Impact Weekend
Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, carbon footprint, click-to-donate, Clothing, Homeless, Human Rights, Random Acts of Kindness, volunteering on August 30, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Week 34: Spontaneous Impact
Posted in volunteering on August 26, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The most time-consuming part of 52 Weeks of Impact is not the weekly Impact Effort itself. Rather, it’s the planning, preparation and research. Still jet-lagging from our California to Austria flights (the nine-hour time difference is a real energy killer), Nils and I see this as the perfect time to do something that we’ve wanted [...]
Week 33: Giving back to mother nature
Posted in Animal Conservation & Welfare, Eco-Friendly, Environment, tagged hiking, lassen volcanic national park, national park on August 24, 2010 |
This Impact blog posting is brought to you by Nils. Week 33 was, in fact, last week. Due to unexpected family visits, last minute holiday errands, followed by long, tiring and separate travel home (Nils via Washington, DC, me via Toronto — don’t ask!), we’re a bit behind schedule in blogging. ~Corinne ==================================== Wide Mountains. [...]
Week 32: Caught off-guard by plastic
Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment on August 21, 2010 |
“Week 32: Plastic Collection” caught both Nils and me a little off guard. Since starting this 52 week project, our goal has been to create Impact. The contrary occurred last week — we were the ones Impacted. The mere act of laying out all our plastics for the week, identifying from where each came, and [...]
Gone hikin’, back soon
Posted in Uncategorized on August 19, 2010 |
By no means have we forgotten about 52 Weeks and our friends and followers. We’ve just been off hiking at Lassen Volcanic National Park in northern California, with somewhat limited access to the internet. Follow up on our “plastic week” and news on our 33rd week Impact effort to come shortly … some time after [...]
Week 32: Collecting Plastic, midweek report
Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment, tagged biodegradable plastic, fake plastic fish, Plastic collection, plastic tally, plastic trash, plastic waste, styrofoam on August 13, 2010 | 1 Comment »
When we started this plastic collection week with guest blogger, Beth Terry, I wasn’t really sure about the Impact part of the project. But now, just around midweek, we already see how much more aware we are of our plastic consumption. Since Nils and I live outside the States and are here in California only [...]
Week 32: Collecting Your Plastic
Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment, tagged fake plastic fish, Plastic collection, plastic tally, plastic trash, plastic waste on August 9, 2010 |
We’re delighted to feature guest blogger, Beth Terry, for Week 32′s Impact Effort. Beth’s been blogging since 2007 at Fake Plastic Fish, and collecting and tallying her own plastic waste and writing on plastic-free alternatives. We hope that 52 Week followers will join us in taking up Beth’s challenge and collect your own personal plastics [...]
Week 31: Can we be clean and green?
Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment, Product Safety, tagged cleaning with baking soda, cleaning with lemon juice, cleaning with vinegar, Environmentally friendly products, natural cleaning products, natural glass cleaner, natural tile and tub cleaner on August 6, 2010 |
Some months ago, my sister and two other 52 Week followers asked if we could do some testing of natural cleaning products on the market. With much of our audience being in the U.S., it didn’t make sense to do studies from Europe with European products. Now that I’m in the States on vacation, it [...]
Week 30: Vacation Offsetting
Posted in carbon footprint, Eco-Friendly, Environment, tagged airplane footprint, Carbon Catalog, Carbon Fund, carbon offset, carbon offset calculator, Conservation International, travel footprint on August 1, 2010 |
Yes, I know. I’m posting Week 30′s Impact Effort just barely on time. But, it’s vacation time! And, I’m doing what I love: I’m traveling. This summer, I’m doing quite a bit of it and flew from Vienna, Austria to Washington, DC to Los Angeles and just this week to San Francisco. I’ve been having [...]
Future Monthly Impact Challenges
Posted in Monthly Impact Challenges (MIC), tagged blog your cause, guest blogger, impact blogging on August 1, 2010 |
July’s Monthly Impact Challenge was a blast! So many friends and followers posted submitted and, rightly, boasted their personal Impact efforts through the month. As a result, we’ve decided to change the Monthly Impact Challenge concept. We hope that once a month we can feature what one of our friends or followers is doing to [...]
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