Today I was green because I:
1) avoided receiving 4 plastic bags with my reusable bags.
2) walked home from work (including a Bonus 20 minutes of beautiful day-ness).
3) chose organic apples, instead of the other kind, even though they cost $.40 more/lb-AND did NOT put them in their own little plastic produce bag (which I usually always do).
4) chose organic milk, which is normally $2/ga more, but Superfresh had one brand on sale for only $1/ga more-Score!
5) did NOT buy eggs because they were out of the organic kind and only had some "vegetarian-feed" brands that I wasn't too sure about.
6) found a sustainable white wine (called "Sustainable White") at the liquor store and it was only $9.99! I'll let you know how it is.
While it doesn't seem like I changed the world today, it took a lot of thought on my part to choose the organic items because I never thought it necessary before. I also never saw the point in spending more money for what seemed like the same product. To elaborate on point 3, I had actually picked out an apple and a pear (that smelled really good) until I found the tiny organic section, which I wasn't even sure they had at Superfresh. I was about to ignore it since I had already picked out my fruit, but instead I picked out two organic apples and then walked back around and put the other ones back. It may not seem like a big deal, but normally I would just be lazy and figure that I would get the organic ones next time. It also took me awhile to distinguish between the organic and non-organic eggs. A lot of them claim "cage-free" or "locally produced"-still two states over- or "vegetarian" which are steps in the right direction, but I figured I'd wait for the real deal. It was also difficult to find anything remotely green in the liquor store. I was about to just get any-old-thing when I spotted the sustainable wine. This is going to be a lot of work, and patience, in my normally hurried routine. Sigh.
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