Lauren Reagan Writing Online

I  really have to admire any business, small or large, that does it’s part in producing environmental friendly products and that takes advantage of any type of greenery that they can these days. I have a friend that works for such as company by the name of American Home Craft Inc which is located in California and they are “leading the green revolution” with their technology that they have worked so hard to achieve.

She tells me that the employees are very proud of that fact also, which is a good thing. The department that she works in she tells me, are all very nice and seem like a close knit family to her all ready, and how they are all very devoted to the company and what it stands and strives for, and they have a good time while doing so in the process, she loves it there, it’s all good! Is it possible that the people that really love and care about our Mother Earth and our environment are full of love are really care about other people that are sharing the world with. If that is the case then I need to start hanging around more people like that because other folks are just getting on my nerves and not making me feel good about myself which is the kind of people we all need to surround ourselves with, right?

Word is that there is a strong possibility that we will not be seeing our beloved Twinkies (and other well known and well loved Hostess products) here in the near future and this story is all over the news these days. I remember going on a field trip back in elementary school to the local Hostess Bakery. It was a pretty cool field trip for kids that age. We were fascinated with the products that they produce and seeing how they made and packaged their baked goods was interesting and educational enough to keep our interest through out the entire tour. Something that is an issue with most field trips, if you can’t keep the kids interested they are going to wonder off and/or ruin the day for all the other kids and chaperones.

And the end of the field trip, each kid was given a mini loaf of Wonder Bread to take home and eat. We were all fascinated with these tiny little mini loafs with all of the brightly colored dots all over the package, something that Wonder Bread is well known for. I remember wanting to eat that bread right there on the bus, but I wanted to take it home and show my family before diving in and eating it all up. And if I remember correctly I never did eat the darn thing, which ended up requiring me to toss it out with the rest of the weekly garbage for the compost pile that my mother was always adamant about us contributing to for her gardens to utilize and prosper from.

Don’t go Twinkies!

I don’t have the time or much opportunity these days to read much more than the newspaper or a magazine or a Reader’s Digest perhaps, which I always has several copies conveniently located in the bathrooms in the house. But that doesn’t mean that once in a while I’ll find a book that really interests me and I will take the time to do what I can in reading it all the way to the end. My daughter actually had me in mind when she and her friends went to the local flea market yesterday when she was looking through a box of books that were being given away for free. She is an avid reader and loves looking for new and exciting books to bring home and when she sees books that are being given away she usually walks away with an arm load.

This box contained a book written by Jimmy Buffett, by the name of “A Salty Piece of Land” a novel. She knows that her dad and I are both avid Jimmy Buffett fans from way back and she went ahead and picked it up for me along with a bunch of other ones for her from this box of free reading materials. That was a pleasant surprise, she is always surprising us with things, and they are not usually on the pleasant side I’m sorry to say.

I’m glad to know that people all over the world are doing wonderful things in a huge effort to save our Mother Earth. Being “green” is certainly the way to be these days and rightfully so, says I. I have always done all that I can possibly do to recycle at home and at work. When I worked for a major insurance company I started and coordinated a recycling program that I hope is still be continued today even though I haven’t worked there for over a decade. It gave me something to sink my teeth into and it was a positive energy that I put to good use and was proud of the way it all turned out.

I’m now learning about e-waste recycling, which I am beginning to think is very interesting. Veolia Environmental Services, a waste management and industrial services which is located in Australia and their web site, Veoliaes.com.au, is one that I stumbled on the other night while looking up some information concerning waste management in Astralia.

I’m thinking on suggesting that the company that I work for now look into a program for their e-waste recycling items that are currently just getting tossed into the trash, thus landing in our precious land fills. I think I’m up for the challenge, it worked well with the last office, years back, so it only makes sense to try again.

Isn’t it amazing how the Internet has made life so much easier in so many ways. I remember many years back when I was working for an insurance company, I was told that the companies goal was to become as paperless as possible, which we all had a good laugh over just thinking how odd, but cool that would be. Computers have made it possible to reduce the amount of paper being used by most of us, but I’m afraid that we will still be cutting down trees to be used for paper for a very long time, so recycling paper is a major goal of mine.

I have always hated all the phone books that we all have in our homes and offices, it is such a waste of paper since most of us rely on the Internet these days to find what we need and want instead of letting our “fingers do the walking” by way of the many phone books that are issued to most of us each and every year. It used to be that we only had one or two phone books, now a days I find that I have four or five to have to deal with and weed through in an effort to find a name, address or phone number, what a major pain in the rear, especially since I don’t use any of them considering I am connected to the World Wide Web at work and at home, which makes finding this type of information so much easier.

One of my favorite sites to locate names, addresses and phone numbers is JustClickLocal.com. Whether I need to find information in Miami, FL, or maybe something in Pittsburgh, PA or in good old Charlotte, NC, I can go to JustClickLocal.com and key in a few strokes and have the information in a matter of minutes, it’s just too easy to pass up. So I am urging folks to toss their unused phone books in the recycling bin and give JustClickLocal.com and try see for yourself how easy and useful they are.