Tinynews! Yay!

So, I figured out that my Razr phone can get the internet and, ergo, internet mail and NEWS! They had a $5 a month plan or a $1 for 24 hours. I chose the $1 plan to see how it works. I am pretty sure they will screw me on this somehow, probably with the hidden 25-year commitment or something, but what the heck. So, starting tomorrow, I will be paperless on the subway. I will now be one of the locos who looks like they are playing tiny video games on their phone instead of reading something. Woop! Give me tiny-news! (At least it isn’t Fox.)

Gimme my morning paper!

Things I have already been doing to reduce my personal environmental impact:

• Switched from disposable razors to a reusable handle with disposable blades.
• Switched from can shaving cream to old-fashioned shaving soap (Burt’s Bees) and shaving brush in a mug.
• We are slowly changing out lights in the house.
  We added power-bars to most electronics and *try* to remember to turn the bars off at night.
• Switched from a table-top PC to Laptop (though I sprung for the really fast Alienware.)
• Working on the paperless classrooms (see earlier posts).
• I started using a glass bottle for water instead of plastic bottles and refill it at home and at school. This one significantly reduced our trash output.
• We recycle paper for drafts and I bring used paper from work home to use for drafts here (it just goes into recycling there with only one side used).
• We used the AC almost not at all this summer.
• Subscribed to magazines I like rather than picking them up at the stand.
  

Things I am planning on:

• Putting mini-blinds on all windows for winter.
• Reducing over-all trash output by cooking from scratch more (we do a lot already, but when we get busy with writing and school, takeout starts looking really nice and easy).
• Looking for electronic versions of magazines.

Things that I still can’t do:

• Giving up the morning paper on the subway.
• Composting. We live in an apartment. I know about the worms in a box thing, but . . . yuck!
  
  Well, that’s a start anyway.