Sustainable Living and You: November APLS Carnival

Greening Families is pleased to be hosting November’s APLS Blog Carnival. I’ve appreciated the conversations on sustainability and green living that the APLS Blog Carnival has sparked so am glad for the opportunity to directly support their continuation. If you are interested in serving as a host of a future carnival, simply contact Robbie from Going Green Mama at goinggreenmama[at]gmail[dot]com. December’s carnival will be hosted by Erin at The Conscious Shopper. Be sure to visit her site in a month’s time to read where the discussion goes next.

The topic for November’s APLS Blog Carnival was how people have been affected by their efforts to live a more sustainable life. The questions posed included:

What have your efforts to live a more sustainable life taught you about yourself? Have you been able to change a behavior you initially thought you could not? What has surprised you about your own capacity in your efforts to live more sustainably?

Here is what folks had to say.

Frugal Maman joins the carnival for the first time with Behind the Times and Loving It. I love both her ideas and her window box garden! Her statement that “now that I am not so distracted, I have and take the opportunity to savour simple pleasures and share these with my husband and children” will ring true with many APLS readers. Welcome Frugal Maman!

Green Bean from the Green Phone Booth wrote about her Thousand Mile Journey. From Lean Cuisine consuming and Target cruising to making home-grown meals from scratch and creating award-winning green Halloween costumes, Green Bean has clearly made many changes. She explains how she did it in this lovely post.

Retro Housewife Goes Green asks Does Sustainability Equal Happiness? In it she states, “We think we are making ourselves happy with all this stuff but the studies and drugs tell a different story. We are always in a mood of want. What if we slowed down and learned to be happy with what we have? This is a great question to ask, especially as the holidays approach and the incessant messages to buy, buy, buy grow louder!

Going Green Mama discusses Three-season Sustainability. I used to live in the midwest so remember all too well the long winter days there and their concomitant lack of fresh food flavors. Between the new location for a winter farmers’ market and online four-season gardening classes, it sounds like Going Green Mama isn’t the only one with a desire for tasty and healthy eating.

Our family has learned that each purchase that we make, or don’t make, is a declaration of the kind of world we want for our kids. The same kids who are much happier spending a relaxing PJ Day (the Koala Sisters are in the midst of trademarking that term, I believe) reading library books and creating beautiful items with materials from the recycle box than they ever were running from store to store in our previous weekend dashes. As we move into the season of thanks, we are ever more thankful for the changes our switch to a more sustainable life is bringing to our family.

Thanks to everyone for participating in this month’s carnival!

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