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Well it's 2011 and this year I have decided to make a life changing resolution.  This year's goal is to gradually make my home and my family more ecologically conscious.  I know this is not going to be an easy task.  Houston (and Texas in general) are not quite as proactive on the "green initiative" as some of the other states in the US.  Don't get me wrong, there are pockets of "green" areas in Texas - but I assure you the Houston suburb I live in is not one of them.  Just to give you an idea - we have no curb side recycling in my neighborhood (the community I live in actually voted down this service when it was proposed).  We do not have the "green" grocery stores - Whole Foods, Central Market, etc.  Public transportation is not the best out here, and I'm not going to even start on the school lunches around here.  So, trying to take my family from the waste-loving bunch we are now is going to be a challenge. 

I will be documenting my move to the "green"side of life in this blog.  I know I am not going to be 100% unwasteful, nor 100% ecologically conscious, but I figure any small changes I make will have an impact.  The first move is too rid my life of my one wasteful additction: Paper Towels!  I will write more about this and it's impacts on my next post.