n504509967_25156_9290If you’ve been following along, you’ll agree that this — the green experiment, bringing me from not-so-green-at-all to whatever shade of green I can manage to get comfortable in — has been a scatterbrained journey to this point.

Researching and discovering cool green , products, foods, and initiatives has been really key in this  ‘’ journey. I think my preconceptions of what it was to be ‘green’ involved things that were way less cool and interesting, and way more bland, boring, and well, a lot of work.

And in hindsight, I’m almost ashamed to admit that it takes neat videos, celebrities, yummy looking, easy to make , cool inventions, and flashy sales pitches to catch my attention when it comes to becoming more eco-friendly. But it does — and I’m probably not alone.

Like many of you, I just wasn’t born and raised to care about the environment, to put it bluntly. I certainly don’t blame my mother, she had plenty of things to worry about, like many mothers do. But as I’m getting older — gaining knowledge, experience, observations of my own and opinions to go with them — I find I am starting to notice, with the help of this green experiment, of course, that I should care about the environment. That it’s important to care about the environment. And whatever it takes to motivate me to actually do something, so be it — why be embarrassed? That’s why companies and organizations make these flashy sales pitches, cool inventions, and neato videos featuring their products and initiatives.

n506717070_28564_52So what am I doing differently? How has this experiment changed me?

Well, I can tell you honestly, my interest in green, things has been awakened. I notice things everywhere – things I’d definitely not noticed before. The buses here in Ottawa, for example — some are hybrid! You know, I hadn’t even noticed that before all this. I’m definitely more aware of things like EcoCabs, reusable cloth bags at grocery stores (and now the need to pay 5 cents for every plastic grocery bag you use), organic and drink everywhere! But do I notice things that aren’t ? I don’t think I’m quite there yet. I mean, unless it’s blatantly obvious, I don’t notice it much.  But I’m hoping to get there!

I hope you’ve enjoyed taking part in the journey so far, I’m looking forward to seeing what this next part of the journey holds for me.

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