Ojai There!

Small note: I was mentioned in Zadi's wrapup of 7 Days of Plastic on today's Epic Fu. /me blushes

You can find it here: http://epicfu.com/2008/08/michael-phelps-and-the-allamer.html

Well, my final day was a total victory! No disposable plastic at any meal, I asked the waiter at the restaurant to not give me a straw in my cocktail at lunch (benefit of going to client lunches is cocktails at 1 :D) Breakfast and dinner came from home and I even stopped at the grocery store and was able to not buy any plastic. Seems like a great note to finish on.

I feel I really learned a lot from this experiment, I am going to keep paying attention and doing my best to reduce my disposable p… Continue

Well, yesterday I got kind of screwed. I was supposed to have lunch with my boss and a client, and since the lunch was at noon, I skipped breakfast to save room for the gut-busting meals these things always are. And then I got to work and discovered that the client had canceled. So... not only had I gotten all decked out in "client-appropriate" duds, I had to run to the nearest grocery store and pick up not only breakfast, but lunch as well. Plastic, plastic, plastic. Not a lot, but enough. Plas… Continue

Day 4 was spent in Sacramento, the bf and I staying at his parents'. Since we were in a house, we had the benefit of ceramic dishes and coffee cups, glasses and metal utensils. The downside is, this is someone else's house and I can't tell them how to do their grocery shopping. So I did my best to recycle what plastic containers I could while I helped make dinner (and did dishes when dinner was over;) ).

Day 5 is ongoing, but I'm back in trouble. We flew back to LA early this morning. Breakfast… Continue

On Day 3 I had to take a flight to Sacramento and naturally, this presents a set of plastic problems. Everything at the gates area is sold in plastic bottles or cups, the refreshments provided on the flight come in plastic cups. You can't bring liquids through security, so providing your own drinks is out...or is it? Following Zadi's lead, I brought a nalgene water bottle(empty, of course) with me to the airport. Once I got through security and to the gate area, I went in search of a beverage. I… Continue