Tera Warner

De-Clutter Paper and Save Trees

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I’m more than happy to do my part with helping to save trees! I love looking at trees, I love climbing trees, I love sitting under trees, I love breathing the oxygen that trees allow us to breathe.

Just imagine a world without trees? Not a pretty picture, huh?

De-clutter, Recycle, and Save a Tree

Thanks to the Clutter-Busting element of the Body Enlightenment System(BES), I have restarted my paper de-cluttering project — which ultimately is allowing me to save more trees.

While the paper in my home is lessening more and more each day, and while what remains is well contained for the most part, the fact of the matter is that there is still more paper in my home than I care to have.

Gosh, I’ve gotten really good at quickly recycling the new paper that arrives. In fact, I’ve gotten a little too good at it. One day I instantly recycled a local coupon magazine that had an ad in it of my son with Jaguars’ Running Back, Maurice Jones-Drew. Yikes! The recycling truck took my copy away before I realized the “keepsake” that rested within those pages. (Of course I had to track down another copy elsewhere.)

In any event, what I haven’t been equally as good at recycling, is older paper piles that I let build up sometime back — when I was less mindful of the paper/tree effect on this world.

You know, I really wouldn’t mind seeing just about ALL of this at-home paper gone forever. I’d rather not file paper away anyway, if I don’t have to. I much rather recycling what I absolutely do not have to keep.

Perhaps my strong desire for wanting a paper-free home (as much as possible) is:

(1) A result of my love, understanding and respect of nature having further intensified.

(2) A way of saving the trees, thus helping the Earth.

(3) Due to the fact that I would rather not spend my time keeping on top of paper organization. The less paper I have, the less I’ll need to keep it organized. And, think about all of those papers that get filed away that we end up never returning to anyway. Wouldn’t they have more purpose being recycled?

C’mon! Do we want more trees to assist the flow of Earth’s oxygen and keep the Earth cooler………or do we want more paper? Let’s just simply recycle every piece of paper we do not need and use what has been recycled for any paper supply that we do need.

The way I see it, the more paper I recycle from my home, the more recycled paper I am helping to make available for others and myself when necessary, and hopefully that means a higher level of oxygen for us to breathe.

ACoolerClimate.com says: “If we want to help stop global warming, then we should become aware of where our paper comes from.” A quick read on the topic along with some useful links are here.

Well, talking about trees, I’ll leave you this week with Tree Pose. “This noble pose reminds us of our connection to the earth, which sustains and nourishes all living beings………..The Tree improves your posture and helps stabilize the pelvis, elongate the spine, strengthen the legs and ankles, and increase flexibility of the inner thigh muscles. In addition, it helps with balance and centering.” ~ Essential Yoga by Olivia H. Miller

In the Love of Trees,

Penny