Comments on Romancing Argentina: Being Green in Argentina

Hi Gayle!! Regarding Ecology, I am creating Eco-pa...

2009-09-04T09:52:23.067-03:00

Hi Gayle!!
Regarding Ecology, I am creating Eco-paintings!!
http://www.patriciavidour.com/2009/08/no-la-tala-indiscriminada-de-arboles.html .
and also working with found papers.
My best,
Patricia

Hi Gayle! I just discovered your blog recently, a...

2009-06-07T15:49:08.065-03:00

Hi Gayle! I just discovered your blog recently, and I've enjoyed reading some of your posts (I'll have to poke around here a bit more). I'm also living in a small town in Argentina - I'm over in Necochea on the coast. I've added you to my blog roll, and I was wondering if you'd be willing to do the same? You can check out my blog here.

With regards to this particular post, I was thinking of writing a post in a similar vein on my blog. I definitely feel like I have less of an environmental impact now that I'm living here in Argentina (I hardly drive, I hang my clothes out to dry, I produce less waste in the form of packaging, etc. - I identify with almost everything you mentioned.). I'm also hoping that businesses comply with the new law that is set to take effect in October that bans the use of plastic bags in the province of Buenos Aires. We'll find out in a few months!

You have made many good points on how to save the ...

2009-05-26T08:58:55.590-03:00

You have made many good points on how to save the environment even if just a little. I have never hung clothes outside but now I will. Also, I'm going to give myself a weekly "allowance" of miles on my car. I will have to plan and consolidate trips out. We have already bought our own grocery bags so very little plastic comes into our house. Yea, for that one. I really do love your idea about no TV service. I've been seriously considering dropping that and stimulating my brain a little more with reading and physical activities. Thanks for your blog. I really enjoy it.

I'm gonna leave Jeff's self-serving promo here. . ...

2009-04-29T12:36:00.000-03:00

I'm gonna leave Jeff's self-serving promo here. . . and just note that actual bidets are standard equipment in Argentine bathrooms. I never knew I needed a bidet until I had one. I suppose mini-bidets could be interesting in US bathrooms with no room for a real bidet.

Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same ...

2009-04-29T01:51:00.000-03:00

Save money and the Earth and be clean at the same time! Get serious and add Bathroom Bidet Sprayers to all your bathrooms. I think Dr. Oz on Oprah said it best: "if you had pee or poop on your hand, you wouldn't wipe it off with paper, would you? You'd wash it off” Available at www.bathroomsprayers.com with these you won't even need toilet paper any more, just a towel to dry off! Don’t worry, you can still leave some out for guests and can even make it the soft stuff without felling guilty. It's cheap and can be installed without a plumber; and runs off the same water line to your toilet. You'll probably pay for it in a few months of toilet paper savings. And after using one of these you won't know how you lasted all those years with wadded up handfuls of toilet paper. As for water use a drought is always a concern and must be dealt with prudently but please remember that in the big picture the industrial water users always far exceed the water use of household users and in the case of toilet paper manufacture it is huge. The pollution and significant power use from that manufacturing process also contributes to global warming so switching to a hand bidet sprayer and lowering your toilet paper use is very green in multiple ways. Blog; http://jeff9.livejournal.com/932.html

Simpler = greener. Sounds very attractive in many ...

2009-04-26T13:41:00.000-03:00

Simpler = greener. Sounds very attractive in many ways. I am loving hearing about your life there.