NOTO's Weekly Green by Carrie

So, it’s Earth Day.  What are You doing to celebrate?

We all have dreams.  Mine, as a burgeoning environmentalist and tree-hugger is a neighborhood in my humble home city of Akron, Ohio, where citizens are plucking fruits from luscious trees and bushes lining everyone’s yard.  Where green things are sprouting from everyone’s raised beds, and people, yes people, are outside together, not mowing or whacking weeds, but hanging out, watching children play, making neighborhood plans and composting! (I said this was a dream, okay?)

Whew!  I know we haven’t quite arrived here yet, but at Noto we think it’s the little things we do that can help. That is why Earth Day marks our first Weekly Green blog post.  

Because we want Noto to be a place where you can feel good about shopping and being the beautiful creature that you are, each week’s Weekly Green will be bringing you a project, lifestyle habit, or idea that we are working on to improve our bit of this planet.  

Whether we are refurbishing chairs that would have gone by the curbside, gardening in a small-scale, urban way, or making green smoothies, this is our way of offering you something meaningful that’s a little more than skin deep.  

The bottom line is, we are here to help each other.  To let our lights shine so that others are inspired to let theirs shine too. We want to offer you some lifestyle choices that make you feel good inside.  We are all here to bring our unique visions of coolness to life, and feeling good is primary.  There are lots of ways to do it and we are psyched about bringing them to you each week.

Here’s to Peace, Love, and Looking and Feeling Good.

-Carrie (greening NOTO one step at a time)