Maddy

Hi all,

Sorry it has taken  a while for me to jump in and for not being perhaps at my best at our meeting.  As some of you know I have started working full time in Salt Lake at Tracy Aviary as Director of Marketing and Guest Services and I love it but I have been swamped at work and my stress level has been a bit high.  My apologies.

Anyway enough of whining!! Wow, some great ideas.  So many of our classes conversations lean to the environmental side and it what many of us are quite passionate about I lean toward a project in this area.  It is also something I would be so proud to have my kids see us doing.

Ok here goes at the risk of sounding realllllllly stupid I woke up the night of our meeting and thought it's so simple the idea was presented right to us at the meeting.  It is causing a major change in my habits one that I was selfishly and lazily procrastinating on.  Any guesses?
It's all about the water bottle. Alison's water bottle.  I have plenty of REI water bottles that I use for hiking but I love my straight from the fridge indiviudal single serving, environmentally damaging water bottles for everyday drinking.

It has been nagging at me to make the switch but I love the convenience of the single serves and I don't think I am alone. I really think we can make a huge impact into the amount of single serve water bottles used in Park City. We could probably track some of our success through re-cycle Utah and the private recycling centers.  Not sure about the ones that go straight to the landfill.Maybe we could incoroporate this through the school district and get people to sign a pledge or contract to give up the store bought water bottle.

Then interestingly enough right after this I grabbed a single serve and there was a notation on it saying how the new shape of the bottle saves 30% plastic.  My daughter the next day pointed the notation out at the dinner table.  I think there is a buzz about how incredibly wasteful buying water bottles.

OK off my water bottle soapbox.  Go easy on the responses I'm under stress...just kidding.

Wasn't sure if we were e-mailing or posting but right now this will have to do.
Talk to you all soon.

Maddy