Sustainable Saturdays

While this is appearing on a Thursday, my hope is to publish it on Saturday's from now on but other obligations will prevent that this week. In this segment I will give out a tip each week that covers something or someway too be Sustainable. Since my last post was on rain barrels, it only makes sense to follow that up with some tips on water conversation.

One of the easiest ways we can conserve our precious fresh water is by brushing our teeth. Many of us leave the water run while we brush and you don't have to. just by turning it on when you need to rinse and off while you are brushing will save about 2 gallons of water. This depends on if you use the happy birthday method of singing this song twice while you brush, which should be approximately two minutes of brushing. This is how we taught our daughters that brushing can be fun. The amount of water save also depends on whether the little attachment on the end of your faucet, called an aerator, is a low flow type. If anyone else has any great ideas on how to get your kids to brush or how to save water feel free to let me know.

I would also like to give a shout out to Tree Hugger, which also has many ways that you can learn to be sustainable with very interesting topics. You can link to it here or from my blog list. Until next Saturday, be wise be sustainable.