I'll feel much better to be reycling, for years it has bothered me at the amount of trash that we throw away that could be recycled.

We try to conserve energy and be environmentally concious when we can. We also have solar charger for our electric fence and a few solar lights around the flower beds and front walk. Composted manure is spread back on the fields. I suppose you could also say that some of our grass is "cut" by the horses in the back field. We also have a digital thermostat & keep the temperature a little warmer than most people in the summer & a little cooler in the winter. We also go "paperless" with a number of our bills.

With the price of gas being so high, I've made a very concious effort to combine trips, so I'm conserving gas. I also think 'is a trip necessary?' before I make the drive. Often, I decide to just stay at home. John saves gas, gets exercise, and has a lot of fun riding his bike part way to work. He does this almost every shift when the weather is good!

Both of our jobs are involved in helping the environment as well. Annapolis Fire Department has a recycling program and has seen a drastic drop in the amount of trash that is disposed of. Bank of America has paper and soda bottle recycling programs. They also have drastically reduced the amount of paper memos that were produced by sending memos via e-mail. Most of their education classes are also conducted online instead of having printed packets. Bank of America also encourages customers to go paperless. In 2007 they rolled out a $20 billion dollar, 10 year initiative to address climate change & help the environment- more on that can be found here- http://www.bankofamerica.com/environment/ -- if you're interested.

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We got the camcorder back from servicing not too long ago. The CCD was having problems and wouldn't record a picture, only a black screen. I had paid to repair it once, but then it happened again and I couldn't see putting anymore money into it. It was kind of disappointing because I really liked the camcorder and didn't have the money to go out and buy another of its caliber. Thanks to a class action lawsuit though, we were able to get it fixed again for free and will hopefully be getting reinbursed for the cost of the first repair.

But I digress...