Well, today after class, I started to look more critically upon my life, and how certain actions could guide me in the path of a more eco-friendly life. At dinner, I ordered pasta with pesto, tomatoes, onions, and red peppers, trying to stay low on the food chain. (Counteracting my lunch which consisted of Chik-fil-A)! In Biology, I type my notes instead of write them down on notebook paper, and at the Trivette Market a few minutes ago, I found another bizarre way to classify myself as "green".
Buying an overpriced box of Nature Valley Granola Bars, I noted the small box-tops for educcation on the front of the box. The box itself is made from 100% recycled paperboard, and after eating all the bars, I will recycle the box, at our local dumpster--emptied every morning promptly at 6am-8am, by a loud, clattering, beeping, dump truck. With the box-top for education, I will send it home to a local elementary school thus promoting education; I will have recycled the box thus promoting recycling, so, one can make the assumption that I am promoting the education of recycling!! Ha! ;) Just a little late night tangent that I wanted to get down, goodnight all!
Monday, August 31, 2009
First Post Bio and Introduction
Hello all,
My name is Ashby Gale; I am a freshmen attending Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina, and I've created this blog as a part of a college seminar class, Contemporary Green Living. I grew up in Hilton Head Island, SC and moved up to the mountains of Asheville in August of 1996. My hobbies include coin collecting, cooking, botany, jazz saxophone, camping, hiking, fly fishing, biking, backpacking, and metal detecting, which will influence much of what I will discuss on this blog, occasionally tying it in with green living.
Yesterday I visited a beautiful part of the mountains here in WNC by hiking along a section of river on the Hebron trail. About 1/2 mile in, you'll come to a set of beautiful cascades, twisting throughout a sea of boulders. On our ascent up to the top, I spotted a harmless water snake, sunning himself amongst the rocks. What a beautiful creature that can be at peace on a square foot of land, overlooked by numerous hikers until a pair of observant eyes spots him among the detritus thrown about the rocks!
Then, today, I awoke to a drizzly cold morning, desperate to put a damper on my day.
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