2 months after Fukushima

The Fukushima incident indeed has changed our life of living and thinking that we are safe. You can build a stronger structure to prepare for the earthquake, and you can built a taller tsunami gate to prepare for the tsunami, but we almost can do nothing for this kind of catastrophe or potential future biochemical attack. Anyway, this to months I have used more bottles of water, reserved extra tap water, and spent more money on dried and canned food. It is time to review and go back to my style of living. Let's see how many pledges of 2011 I have been done so far:

My new pledges from 2011:
• Not dump my used cooking oil down the drain (ABLE TO)
• Place a filled water bottle in my toilet tank (ABLE TO)
• Buy and use vegetable-based dishwashing detergent
• Use the least amount of energy when drying my dishes (ABLE TO)
• Use biodegradable, “green" cleaning products
• Use natural hair products
• Replace on hour of television or one hour of computer use per week with something not requiring electricity, like playing with the kids" (ABLE TO)
• Wrap presents creatively without using wrapping paper (GOING TO)
• Purchase and begin brewing with reusable filters with my next trip to the store
• Replace one meat-based meal a week with a non-meat alternative (ABLE TO)
• Ask my local chopstick-supplying restaurants to use reusable ones
• Use solar powered lamp and charger (ABLE TO)
• Decrease the amount of junk & frozen foods and carton drinks
• Don’t buy from vending machine
• Bring you own handkerchief, don’t use the restaurant paper
• Use rechargeable heater instead of the disposable pocket warmer
• Recycle kitchen waste (DON'T KNOW HWO TO)
• Use tube-free toilet papers
• Save the bathtub water for watering and washing
• Take shorter showers and install a low-flow / low pressure shower head
• Buy organic food
• Grow some of my own food
• Buy fresh and prepare myself instead of buying prepackaged and processed foods
• Plant a tree
• Seal my home. Caulk and weather strip my doorways and windows.
• Switch to double pane windows that keep more heat inside my home
• Don’t use electronic hot water pot (PLAN TO)
• Pack light, natural and environmentally friendly products when travel (ABLE TO)