Morning movements

I managed a head stand this morning for the first time ever! I feel accomplished. I know it's slightly off topic but I think yoga has a lot to do with sustainability. Here we go, second post and I'm losing people already... wait, I have no people. HA!

Yoga is the oldest form of meditation and exercise and is far more beneficial than almost any other work out because it challenges more than just your body. Yoga strengthens your body by lengthening and toning your muscles but also has the same effect on your mind by increasing your focus and challenging your attention helping to get you motivated and get your day started. It's also one of the few workouts that can help you relax and de stress allowing for you to sleep. The best part - YOU ALREADY DO IT! That's right. If you wake up in the morning and stretch before you get out of bed or before you start your day your already doing basic yoga.

Anyway, I enjoy my new found yoga practice and feel as though it has inspired me on my voyage of sustainability. Yes, I give the credit to yoga.

So yoga, let me thank you. You have increased my strength, flexibility, confidence, and so many other things. You've also decreased my carbon foot print.

Now if you can just get my hips to open up I'll love you even more....

New Blog - I'll try to keep this intresting and provocative.

I've been coming to terms lately with the fact that the way that most of us live on this planet is far beyond the means of what it is capable of sustaining. I'm not an expert but I'm constantly looking for ways to reduce my impact on the only planet we have.

I'll try to keep this updated regularly as I will (hopefully) continue advancing in my quest for sustainability.

A few quick tips that have helped me and saved me some money in the process -
1. Buy a reusable coffee mug. Even if your a die hard Starbucks drive through patron it will be a great investment. Starbucks will fill it in the drive up window and you'll get to save .10 cents per cup.
2. I did the same as above but with a Camelback water bottle from Moosejaw Mountaineering that I use for juice, tea and soda from fast food or gas stations. To date, Speedway and Jimmy Johns have yet to charge me for filling it! That $10 bottle has saved me twice what I paid for it in the first two weeks.
3. Biofuel or electric cars! I don't have the coin needed to buy an electric car, but I did buy a kit to convert my Saab to run E85! I don't have to run it if I can't find it but when I can (2 local stations within a few miles of my house) I save about a dollar per gallon, don't line the pockets of oil execs as deeply and get about a 10hp boost making my car just that much more fun to drive.
4. Compost! Greens and browns, a little additive, some soil and a few earth worms and I've got my own fertilizer. I don't have a garden yet, but that's the next step.

Those are just a few things that I've done so far. More to come, I promise.