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Welcome to the 2012 Lake Country School Challenge
Watch this page to follow the experiences of the families taking the Challenge!
Recognition Ceremony was fun!
It was great to see so many families at the STEM Academy Challenge event last night at Randall. Everyone seemed to have a good time. County staff enjoyed meeting all of you and talking with you about your experience with the Challenge. We hope you will continue to visit the website and blog and share more thoughts about your ongoing efforts to keep reducing, reusing and recycling.
If you have not done so already, you can still pick up a discounted compost bin at Retzer Nature Center through this weekend (they are open Saturday and Sunday from 8 am-4:30pm) and you can take a nice hike as well.
Thanks again for participating- and helping to spread the word to friends and family.
Here are a couple photos from last night.
- Karen Fiedler, Waukesha County Recycling
Keep Up the Good Work, Inspire Others, Be Inspired!
It was great seeing everyone and chatting with some of you at the Challenge conclusion event. Your efforts are appreciated and do make a difference. I encourage you to continue, as well as share & inspire others.
Feel free to use this blog to continue the dialog and share updates. Check out the yogurt recipe if you haven't yet! Share YOUR ideas and discoveries!
Finally, if you'd like to be inspired by one of our former colleagues, Courtney, and her friend Robin, check out their amazing blog posts that celebrate living fully and creatively with less!
http://domesticwormhole.wordpress.com/
- Compost Guru
Diapers make the difference!
As a new family of five (our youngest son is 7 weeks old), we weren't sure what changes we could make at this time. The biggest change we ended up making was switching from disposable to cloth diapers for our little one. Of course, when you add up the weight of throwing away all that "waste", it can really make a difference! Another change, albeit quite a bit smaller, was buying washable breast pads in place of the disposable ones. We also have ramped up our composting a bit, even composting our facial tissues.
One of our big recycling "passions" is the recycling of plastic bags, and not just plastic grocery bags. Unless I'm mistaken (and someone please tell me if I am), all those little dry bean, rice, cereal, frozen vegetable, and toilet paper bags can be put in with the plastic grocery bags and brought to most grocery and big box stores for recycling. Spread the word!
The End
Our last week! I thought we were doing pretty good since the last challenge and told Dustin there wouldn't be much progress because we were practicing what we learned during this past year. I was wrong. We realized from our weights each week that somewhere in the last 365 days we had gotten lazy. Now we're back on track doing those little things that make a difference. I think we just need a reminder now and then of the importance of Reducing Reusing and Recycling. We thank you all at the WRF for doing just that with all the things you do for the community- informing, educating, equipping and reminding us all to do better!! The Rajnicek family
