Hopefully, you've heard about the super-cool initiative that is BlogHersAct Canada. It's a sister-project to BlogHersAct that draws upon the talent and energy of Canadian women bloggers (although participation is by no means restricted to Canadian bloggers), and the cause that it is championing this year is the environment. Which is awesome, because we all the environment, right? And we all want to make it safe and lovely and long-lasting for our children, no?
Of course we do. Which is why LMJ has struck up a partnership with BlogHersAct Canada and another super-cool online eco-initiative that you almost certainly already know, Green Mom Finds, to join forces and kick some serious ass in saving the planet. You know, for the kids.
BlogHersAct Canada's mandate this year is to spend the year issuing and meeting monthly eco-challenges, to push people to make realistic objectives around helping the environment and to help them meet those objectives by generating oodles of blogosphere support. From here on in, LMJ and Green Mom Finds are going to getting really, really naggy with our supporters and do everything we can to drum up participation in these challenges (okay, naggy, but sweetly naggy, and also bribey - there'll be prizes!!!)
SO. Shall we get started?
The first challenge of the year issued by BHA-Canada was to reduce meat consumption for the month of January (read about it here, and here), by at least a few meals per week. Well, January is almost over, but there's still time to make a last-ditch effort. Can your family go without meat for a week? Are you willing to try?
We're going to make it manageable - from Monday to Friday of next week (so, you have this weekend to gorge on bacon sandwiches, if you need to), make your best effort to keep vegetarian in your kitchen, and keep a record. Write a post, or append an update to your regular posts, every day (or as many days as you can), and then post a wrap-up sometime between next Friday and next Sunday, midnight, explaining how it went, what worked, what didn't work, any recipes that were life-savers, what-have-you. Note that we're not going to hurl Tofurkey at you if you don't make it through the week - the point here is to TRY, and share our experiences in making this effort with each other. Also, we think it will be funny ("day five: I thought that husband was nibbling my toes to be sexy, but
turns out that he - having gone five days without sausages - was trying to eat them")
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