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We drink bottled water and I have convinced my family that Greenville water is better than the water that you buy. We refill the bottles from the store with Greenville tap water to recycle the bottles and keep them out of the landfill. I like the Greenville water better....LOL.

It's a great time to visit your local nurseries and pick out shrubs and trees for your landscaping. I have purchased several varieties of japaneze maples that I am going to plant in the back yard next week. I need to find some taller growing trees as well for the front. Twin Bridges on Wade Hampton Blvd has some great prices so check them out.

We're quickly approaching the holidays . . . some would even say we're already into it with Halloween just past us.  Have you thought about what you can do over the coming couple of months to be good to the environment?  How about this:

1. Step 1

   When you go shopping, whether for groceries or gifts, bring your own bags. Plastic bags often end up endangering birds and paper bags are expensive to produce.

When did you last check out the Environmental Protection Agency's webpage?  Never?  Well, you are seriously missing out!  They have an entire section on living green and how to make a positive impact on your environment . . . check it out!  http://www.epa.gov/epahome/citizen.htm

My co-worker and I noticed we were using a ton of disposable cups by pouring canned beverages from the can into a cup before drinking it!  How silly is that!?  We always recycle the can but we're just creating more trash by putting it into a new container when the can was designed to have someone drink out of it!  Now we just wash off the top of the can (because you just never know what has crawled/run across the top of it) and then drink from the can.  One less cup in the trash every time we do it!!  It's awesome AND simple!

A while back I read an article about Justin Timberlake.  Fabulous singer, dancer and writer, restaurant(s) owner and now golf course owner!  Amazing what that much money will get ya.  And smart decisions.  I'd say one of the smartest decisions he ever made was dumping Britany.  Okay, I'm getting off course..... (hahahaha)

Justin Timberlake's newest venture is an ENVIRONMENTALLY FRIENDLY GOLF COURSE in his hometown of Millington, TN.  It is set to open to the public on July 25, 2009.  (Dang it all, I wish my brother-in-law would get a job there.)  The golf course name is Mirimichi which means "place of happy retreat."    JT invested $16 million to make this course E.F. 

My officemate and I recently decided we wanted to add some style and personality to our desks...we got lamps! Not only are they cute as can be, they are helping to save energy. We aren't using the huge overhead lighting to illuminate the entire room... instead we are lighting our personal space and "setting the mood" for work!

My roommate and I are challenging each other to find 1Thing we can do differently each week to make a positive impact on the environment.  Last week we decided to replace a blown bulb with a CFL bulb.  They're a little more expensive but rumor has it that they'll last longer than the old-fashioned bulbs and are much more energy efficient.  We're going to replace our current bulbs with CFLs as they burn out.  This week we started carpooling to work since we work so closely to each other.

What are you going to do?