PLNU Sustainable Superstars SUMMER 20

Be ready for outages this week guys. Conserve energy wherever you can to help relieve stress on the grid! 

Some pictures of my garden, the only plant that stuck with me from the beginning is the green bell peppers the rest didn't fare out so well,  some are just planted about a week ago. I tried to grow: tomatoes, bell peppers, baby beets, chives, zucchini, and egg plant. 

I just had a random idea. Why don't all new houses include a smart meter that not only gives standard info like temperature but a simple breakdown of what sources the electricity being used is sourced from? Like if you were to check at 5 pm, in San Diego it would probably be around 75% fossil fuel sourced. If you checked at 6 am, it would be...

EnoughBroken bottles and rusted pieces of glassCrumpled up newspaper lost in the grassFlooding concrete plaguing our treesCan this be the environment that goes on around me?Toxins and insecticides splashed onto our foodoceans filling with black grim oilSea life headed doe fatal doomThis is what we are to consume?Mills bleeding out iron casting...

The next step would be recycling my shower water. And recycle rain water in the winter. I'm also working towards fixing any leaky fixtures in my home. 

I feel great cutting down my sugar intake. I don't have that "crash" I would feel mid day!