Little life, Big changes

You made it! Welcome to the blog that will change your life. The blog that will give anyone who reads it an epiphany into next week. The blog that will SAVE THE WORLD!

Yeah, right.

This is about a project. That project is my life.

If you already know me...sorry about that. If you don't know me, this will help a little:

I'm 23 years old. About 6 months ago, I decided I wanted to change my entire life. I went from being absolutely positive I wanted to be a veterinarian, to a vet tech, to some random person with a couple of animal related degrees, to nothing of the sort (well, I still have those degrees).  I decided my passion is sustainability, recycling in particular. Lucky for me, I landed a job almost right away with the Michigan Recycling Coalition.
Now, it's time for some more change.

I watched the movie "Trashed" the other day, which briefly featured a woman who said her family of 3 produced one grocery bag of landfill waste in an entire year. It got me thinking; how can I do that?

Along with other sustainable living practices, our family of 3 (plus a cat and a dog) produces about one 13-gallon bag of landfill waste each month, which equates to ~25% of our total waste. The other ~75% gets recycled. Not bad, but it could be better.

The ultimate goal of this project is to produce one 13-gallon bag of landfill waste in 2014. Yes, one bag for the entire year. 

I will officially launch this blog in January. In the meantime, I'm soliciting advice and doing some research on all the ways I can make this happen. I'll post my initial plan when it's ready, and updates on how it's going after that.

Any questions or comments? Feel free to post. If this blog really does change someone's life or save the world...bonus!!

Anna

"Thank God men cannot fly, and lay waste the sky as well as the earth."
-Henry David Thoreau