What's A Little Rain in Your Bucket?

There are umpteen ways to save the planet and be green as illustrated in a wonderful book I managed to lose a few weeks ago in the Dominican Republic.

Vanessa Farquharson's amazing book available on her blog... http://greenasathistle.com/sleeping-naked-is-green/

I hadn't had the chance to read it all yet before it got swept into the abyss that is Excellence Resort. However she did an amazing green challenge for a year, one change per day for a year.


I'm not able to do quite that. Though I have frequented the Big Carrot to check it out and witnessed in person that Vegan Dental Floss does actually exist.


However my green post for today has to do with the sky.
Sure its pretty, gives us our dose of vitamin D, if we get out enough.
However, the easiest green change you can do is collect what the sky gives you.


I'm talking about rain barrels!


This is a cost effective and earth effective change that doesn't really take a lot of work.

You buy it (well unless you want to make one, which is possible too but takes a bit more work), place it under one of the drain pipes around your house and voila!


Rain water watered just about 75% of our gardens last year. Which if you think about saves a lot of water to be used for other things! Like lemonade :)