Ramblings of TJR -- Marketer -- Mom -- TV Addict.

Following up on my last post on how eco-friendly a road trip can be vs flying, today I want to talk garbage.  I know not a sexy topic, but we keep adding to our landfills and a lot of it is unnecessary.  What makes garbage on road trips? food (and particularly fast food) containers pop cans, water bottles, coffee cups, juice boxes (of which there will be NONE on our trip paper goods like - kleenex, wet-wipes, napkins and paper towels paper and plastic bags Food - Now I'm travelling with a couple of Food Revolution folks, so we won't be eating much fast food. We'll be buying food in grocery stores (we have all the Trader Joe's on our route mapped out), and doing a bit of quick mixing in our hotel rooms at night.  We will have a plug-in cooler to keep things cold.  Karen is all over it.  She will be using re-usable containers and plates/cutlery that she has in a picnic kit.   I've been looking at some options that would reduce our use of pla...

I love summer road trips. And now that we have actually had a few days of summer weather it feels like we should be heading on our summer trips.  I'll be heading on my big road # TraverseTrip to San Diego in just two weeks. It will be a great road trip with 3 blogging girlfriends  Karen , Nicole and Alexis to Blogher '11 - no juice boxes allowed.   We've had a few interesting reactions to our road trip... mostly words I can't repeat here about how long a drive it will be.  Yes, it will be a long drive! But there are some real environmental benefits to driving - besides being a great road trip adventure with my girlfriends.  So besides discussing fashion and shopping along the road on Fashion Forward 40 , I'm also going to see how we keep our road trip as environmentally friendly as possible. Lets start with the biggie.  Driving compared to flying.  For those that don't love numbers I do apologize as the next part g...