Project Support Beauty in Nature

alright. anything to quell the guilt over the cigarette butts (and, um, not recycling. and using disposable coffee cups and all those diapers and OMG, i’m the reason the earth is combusting!)

zoeyjane’s last blog post..Seriously?

this is awesome! i live in california where cigarettes are everywhere covering the ground, even in parks and on the beach!!! i have blogged about it in the past but it is nice to know bloggers can unite like this and spread the word.

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This sounds like a great hands-on activity for our homeschoolers. It covers, let’s see: science, art, community service, creative thinking, leadership, responsibility, etc…

Count me (us) in.

Jenni’s last blog post..Scrolling Saturday- Modest New Mom, Oxymoron?

You go girl! I always make a point of picking up rubbish when we are out in public. I also pick up any dropped along my road, because I live rural and it sticks out like a sore thumb.

Veronica’s last blog post..The Big Blog Giveaway

In!!

Secret Agent Mama’s last blog post..Highs in the Fifties

So, I don’t rate quoting??
Joking u nut, I nabbed a button and am joining.
With the thaw coming, we will have a lot of clean up.

Penelope Anne’s last blog post..Eliza’s Story ~ The beginning

Look at you taking on this cause. Sassy and I are in!

Sister Honey Bunch’s last blog post..“Sorry, wrong number”: Can 411 tell me my calling?

What a great idea. It is also great to show our kids how important it is to take care of our earth and sometime we have to clean up others messes. Because our world is that important.

jennifer’s last blog post..Valentine Utensil Holders

I can definitely show some things CB and I do around the house to be a bit more enviro-conscious. There’s a park near his house too. Maybe I’ll see if we can both head over there this weekend and see if there is any trash to pick up.

Lilacspecs’s last blog post..Time To Make A Change

Luckily, Texas has their “Don’t Mess With Texas” campaign for many years & it works (mostly)..our highways & such are almost free of litter.

Our early childhood PTA group cleans up a local park, so I’ll take some pics of that for the Feb. 11th post.

What a special movement! Thanks for starting…

HappyCampers’s last blog post..Weekly Winners: The Nose Edition

surprisingly, there’s not a ton of litter in iowa. they have a ‘fee’ on soda cans and bottles and you only get it back if you take it back to teh store and recycle it, so the roadways look pretty good.

but i will comment on some ways to be green, k? jill

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I think this is a wonderful idea.. I am IN!!

Kim’s last blog post..Where is my Nursing Home Application?

Our town has a ‘beautification’ law, or set of laws, that actually work to keep the litter down. You can be fined for it even if your yard is considered a bit junky. Something they added last year was a new fine for people who blow their grass into the street. They said it creates a problem in that it clogs the storm drains and everyone here knows they mean business. We’re a small town of around 600 people with no actual cop, but people just don’t litter here because of the laws we have in place and the town enforcing them.

Back home we had litter laws with fines of, depending on the area, upto $500-$750. But they didn’t do much to enforce it so many just didn’t/don’t care. Having adopted roads and highways through groups at school (as a teen) and then walking them with the orange trashbags to clean up after inconsiderate people, I totally get what you’re saying. We need more people like you.

noname’s last blog post..Oh yeah, now we’re talking!

I’m with Jill on the can litter; MI charge 10 cents per can/bottle when you buy them, and you get the money back when you return…so if anyone tosses stuff on the ground, the desperate cash seekers pick it up almost immediately.

But Son is always pointing out what he calls “glittering” — as in, “We don’t DO glittering,” and he’s quick to spot other people’s (g)litter, so I’m sure we can come up with a great project for our house to take on. Thanks for being inspiring!

PS Who knew you could be serious?! I love you this way too!

MommyTime’s last blog post..A Letter to My Son: On Table Manners

OOooh the litter bug is my arch enemy. I’m game!

Autumn Dahlia’s last blog post..Me, I cave, it’s what I do.

I just came over to your blog from Regina’s. What a great blog you have- I LOVE it! I’m sure I’ll be back!!

Melanie’s last blog post..Wordless Wednesday #38

PS For those of us who still live on sucky Blogger, can you please make the buttons into links? If I put it into my sidebar as an image, there is no way to make it a link or even to add some text below it with a link it that, and if I try to add it into the sidebar in the “text” window so that I can make it a link, the image doesn’t come through. I’ve tried every work-around I can think of. If you just want to email me, I want the sunflowers one. So pretty. Blogger is a pain in my neck. Sorry to make it a pain in yours too!

MommyTime’s last blog post..A Letter to My Son: On Table Manners

Another wonderful idea from the flower Lotus! I would like to participate so I will join up and do a project. Thanks!

Junebug’s last blog post..Oklahoma Treasures

Great idea! I’m in!

LunaNik’s last blog post..Gracias

In my city I really think some of the problem has to do with the crappy municipal services we get. They are about to charge people for picking up more than one bag of garbage a week. I know they’re trying to force people to recycle but it’s not the way to go because all it means is that people will dump more garbage.

Don Mills Diva’s last blog post..Into the wild

Great idea, I’m in, if I am mobile by then, heck even if I’m not I can find something earth friendly to blog about . Maybe all the things I SHOULD be doing to help out.

justmylife’s last blog post..I just have to gripe……

I have found some great reusable shopping/grocery bags that have structure so that I am using and remembering to use them instead of getting endless plastic bags. I used to use and still have a stack of canvas bags, but they are a pain because they flop over. My goal is to not bring any more plastic bags into our house. (Paper shopping bags, though, well, I sorta have this obsession with them, and will never willingly give them up…although we use and reuse them for everything — the little ones make great lunch bags, the bigger ones are perfect for the kids to haul those big projects to school…).

Very cool project, Lotus! I’m in!

julie’s last blog post..If it’s Tuesday, it must be…….

Great idea girlie!

But I’m gonna have to wait until the thaw begins out here…currently it’s -43…with the windchill it’s about -58. That’s -72 for you.

Brrr. But I promise, as soon as it’s safe to head outdoors without worrying about my nose falling off, I’ll get on it.

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This is a HUGE problem in my neighborhood. Theneighbor kids leave out toys, which get run over, leaving broken bits everywhere. On trash day people just pile up whatever trash by the road, even though they know that the trash man will only take whatever’s in the one can, so trash ends up EVERYWHERE. When we first moved in we’d go out and clean up, thinking it was an occasional thing. But it just looks the same again the next day, there’s no point.

Marie’s last blog post..Starbucks!

That is such a great idea. I thought we only experience this problem in third world countries. I don’t have any idea other countries have this problem as well.

Andie Summerkiss’s last blog post..Liverpool 8

You know I’m down.

Christine’s last blog post..One more time when I really, really had to pee

I’m in. Of course, I don’t know WHEN the friggin’ snow is going to melt and stay gone, but as soon as is practical Zach and I will clean up the 1 mile or so of road between us and the rest of town.

Now all I gotta do is grab one of them there Icons and we’re good.

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I’m in for sure. I’m always picking up other people’s trash when I walk around. (I try to avoid using my car at all costs).

Count me in…. but can you send an email reminding me? *blush* Reminding me to post about it I mean.:)

CableGirl’s last blog post..MJ update

I’m with Lou. Don’t know when the snow will melt and reveal the ugliness beneath. If that happens soon I’ll be with you on February 11th. If not, I’ll try to come up with something constructive to add. I will definitely be getting my grandkids out to help clean up when the time comes.

I’m giving away my age again. I participated in the very first “Earth Day” cleanup. We went out into the countryside and cleaned up illegal ‘dumps’ that people had been using for years. Just to avoid a fee at the landfill they dump junk anywhere in the desert areas, thinking it doesn’t matter. No people around for miles. Well, it does matter.

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GREAT idea!! We have a pretty awesome community here but I will take the gals down to the park and see what we can do!

amy’s last blog post..Dear Daddy, Vol III

This is great! I’ll come up with my family’s contribution and post it on my site with a link back to yours, of course.

Every significant movement begins with one idea, a commitment by one person, one step in the right direction.

Kelsi

Kelsi’s last blog post..Observations and Conversations

I am in. Think it’s a grand idea!

jenn in holland’s last blog post..Remarkable Resilience

Great idea! I hate seeing my neighbors throw out bottles, paper, etc. when they can recycle it all. Also, I’m trying to go green with my cleaning products so I’m not flushing toxins down the drain. Sign me up!

andrea’s last blog post..I want to do this more often…..

Lotus, you’re so awesome! I love this idea. I’ll do my best to put up a post soon. We’re in the process of moving these 2 weeks, but I have some ideas for my tiny contribution set out to make a little difference

Can’t wait to read everyone else’s ideas too!

Sandy (Momisodes)’s last blog post..So What If I’m Late?

this is a wonderful idea! i’m happy to join in.

crunchy domestic goddess’s last blog post..Morning Sickness – beneficial to mother and baby?

I cloth diapered Parker full time…so I didn’t throw away any diapers ANYWHERE for two years. Does that count towards a good work? Because once he started solids…..gag.

Great project! You’re inspiring!

Queen of Shake Shake’s last blog post..Please. Esplain.

I’m game, got something that’s been bothering me for while. Can’t wait to start doing something about it.

Sandy’s last blog post..Forgiveness

DON’T EFFING MESS WITH TEXAS!

Anglophile Football Fanatic’s last blog post..Novel Dreams

wow….

(I’m impressed… keep reminding me … today is v. foggy here …)

Dawn’s last blog post..reasons 546 through infinity why the Mirena IUC is a good idea.

We are trash picker-uppers also!! My youngest especially is Anti-Litter and will pick up ANYTHING (despite warnings to “let mom get it”) that is on the ground.

I am so in but don’t know yet how to do buttons…LOL

Qweenie’s last blog post..Oh the weather outside is frightful……

I have my own little green campaign going. I buy things with as little packaging as possible, I use re-usable shopping bags, I’ve even bought metres of tulle and made fruit and vegetable bags to buy my fresh produce so I don’t have to use those plastic bags-on-a-roll at the supermarket. these bags are great as the fruit etc can “breathe” instead of “sweating “in the plastic. We have so little rubbish our bin doesn’t get put out every week. Even our recycling bin only goes out once a month. Here in Adelaide households have three bins, a small for household waste, a large for recyclables, (cans, bottles, paper etc) and another large for garden waste. The garden waste is taken somewhere and composted or mulched, then bagged and can be bought for your garden through the local councils. There is also a refundable deposit on cans and bottles so instead of putting them in the recycle bins, lots of people collect them until they have a large load and then take them to a recycling plant where they are separated and counted and the person gets paid. It’s a great way for families to give their kids pocket money. Adelaide still has its share of lazy, trashy people though.

I am in…cheers kim..

frogpondsrock’s last blog post..Wordless Wednesday

I recycle, and have even picked up other’s recycling trash to take home to recycle. But I recently did something “big” – for me… I bought reusable bags for my groceries. At minusbags.com. They rock, ’cause they’re cute and eco-friendly. Rad.

jennyonthespot’s last blog post..*taptaptap*

fantastic idea! I’m all over it!

Karla ~ Looking Towards Heaven’s last blog post..Another look at the frumpys

I agree – great idea. The wheels are already turning with possible cleanup projects.

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Don’t delete the quote marks. I’m pretty sure you need them.

I’ll be adding a Beauty in Nature button to my blog later this week – after I do a post explaining it. I did basically the same thing, though, to put my Pink Tag Sale image/link in my sidebar. If you’re interested, you can check it out here: http://littlestuffoflife.blogspot.com .

This is a great idea – I’ll have to post about it next week when i can give it proper attention.

Rebecca’s last blog post..Adventures in Tourism

I am a recycling fanatic It’s ahrd to think about people not recycling.

Count me in! I’m soo irritated by people who throw away trash in any place they like, they should use their brain and eyes to search the trash bin.

Once, I complained to my BIG BOSS because she throw away tissue out of the car. That’s not right.

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This is awesome!!!! I’m totally in and posting on my blog.

what an amazingly terrific idea!! seriously…i’m going to do stuff too!!! like, walk around my neighborhood and pick up after the pig teenagers that live in the houses around me…and, their pig parents!!
i’m in! totally!

Great idea! I can’t wait to see what your project is!

I also wanted to give you my favorite quote:

I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do. ~Edward Everett Hale

Cheers!
Jess

daysgoby’s last blog post..daytime tv leaves me cold

*The crowd stands — huge applause*
Starts chanting, “Yes, we can! Yes, we can!”
Oh, wait, that’s something else…

But seriously, oh yeah! What a fantastic idea! This is a great example of what makes you such an exemplary blogger. Wow. I’m in. We’ll figure out something.

Thanks for the inspiration (and beautiful badges to go with it!!).

bmgmom’s last blog post..Nothing Like a Good Faucet

Brilliant idea — I’m inspired. And I’m blog hoppin!

Virtual Varmint’s last blog post..Yes We Can

I actually reprimanded someone recently who threw a cigarette butt from their car window.

me: (as i picked up the butt) Do you mind if I throw this in the trash for you?

Litter woman: Oh, sorry (actually looked guilty) umm… can you give me directions to the Holland tunnel?

me: Yes, if you promise to throw out your cigarettes from now on. It’s the number one item littered in. the. world.

Litter woman: yes, i promise.

I applaud your anti-litter campaign!! And we also need to encourage everyone to NOT create garbage in the first place by recycling, not using plastic bags and using recycled products.

oh and your photography is AWESOME!

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[...] PROJECT SUPPORT BEAUTY IN NATURE POST SHOULD GO UP TOMORROW! There will be a Mr. Linky for you to sign with the URL for your post [...]

[...] A few weeks ago, Sarcastic Mom put out a call to action to get others involved in a project to help clean up our neighborhoods, recycle or otherwise spread the word about green living. She called it Project Support Beauty in Nature. [...]

I would love to, but I’m only hearing about this now (mid house move (making it as green as I can)). Maybe next time given that I’ve just found you!

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[...] The First Installment of Project Support Beauty in Nature!  [...]

[...] A little over a week ago I mentioned that Sarcastic Mom had come up with a great idea: Project Support Beauty in Nature (wow that’s a lot of links in a single sentence). Today is the day. Since I usually [...]

Posted a video response to Project Beauty. Click on my name to see it. Thanks Lotus

Sandy’s last blog post..Project Support Beauty in Nature

[...] Lotus has a post up today about ways her family is trying to reduce the amount of excess crud in their lives. It’s part of a project she’s initiated called “Support Beauty in Nature Day”. [...]

I love this!! I am always looking for way to get rid of excess, be smart and stay GREEN! Once my play dates are over, I’ll try to be back for my 2/11 Green blog. I’m a Kinder-blogger, so be patient!

Nanci’s last blog post..Energized by Nature

[...] started thinking about this more today because today is the brag day for Project Support Beauty in Nature over at Sarcastic Mom.  I, because I am totally lame, have no photos of us picking up trash.  In [...]

[...] am a day late!  Sarcastic Mom’s post two weeks ago called me to action! I think we live in a wonderful neighborhood: friendly neighbors, historic homes, a sense of [...]

Hey, I’ve started a campaign for the Burt’s Bees company to join with their parent company, Clorox, to manufacture waxed paper using beeswax. Did you know regular waxed paper can’t be composted because it uses petroleum-based paraffin?

Just think of all the little plastic sandwich and snack bags we could get rid of if we used a nice biodegradable waxed paper instead.

Come check it out! I made some nice blingy badges for you too.

Cynematic

[...] I want you all to know a couple of things.  One is that since the birth of Project Support Beauty in Nature, we’ve been having a lot of fun thinking of ways to green up our lives around here, and [...]

[...] gone on a garbage walk for Lotus’ Project Support Beauty in Nature and I’ve been trying to decide on some other ways to make our lives a little greener.  When [...]

Using green items is great! I also believe buying American made products is another great way to do your part for the environment and the economy.

My son’s great grandmother gave him some toys she had packed away and they were all made in the USA except now those same companies have thier toys made in China like Fisher Price and Tonka.

My mother and I have recently started are own handmade handbag and travel pillow business our products are listed on many Made in the USA websites. However I am suprised that we have done better on Ebay than the Made in the USA catalogs.

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We must use more recycled products in order for us to reduce the garbabe problem that we have..*

i always buy recycled products to reduce the waste materials on this planet.,;:

my family always go for recycled products because you can help the environment *.~