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Whether you’re eating turkey or tofurky, organically-grown sweet potatoes or canned yams, the Eco Women hope you spend your Thanksgiving surrounded by loved ones, sharing laughter, feeling gratitude and making memories.

Happy Thanksgiving!

Even though the Eco Women hope that you won’t do any shopping this weekend, the fact is, you’re going to have to hit the stores at some point this holiday season, whether you’re working on your Christmas list at a locally-owned store or buying food for your family at the grocery store. So when you do go out, please remember to take your cloth shopping bags with you. The Eco Women particularly like this one.

Portland Composts is a new program and I may be a little biased…okay I might be a lot biased but Portland, Oregon has always been known as a sustainable city. We Portlandians are ranked NUMBER ONE in the country for most bike friendly cities, only coming in behind Amsterdam in the entire world! Plus we have an army of workers who bike to work. We even have solar powered garbage compactors located around the city. But now Portland City Metro is not only encouraging composting, they are essentially demanding it…at least if you don’t want to have your garbage cans overflowing and spilling out into your yard.

Garbage pick ups will only be every other week from now on – instead of every week. So, people will need to cut down on their garbage production or increase their recycling and composting to keep their garbage from growing into an unmanageable amount. The city even provided these cute little composting pails (pictured above) for every household. I think it’s super city sustainable power!!! And, I’m really excited to see how the program works out.

I’ll keep you all posted on the progress of this new sustainable program.

How ’bout your city, is it encouraging composting?

It’s just two weeks until Turkey Day. Are you going through your recipes and preparing for the biggest food day of the year?

More importantly, have you bought your turkey yet? According to a survey by the National Turkey Federation, 88% of all Americans eat turkey on Thanksgiving Day, so it’s safe to say that a LOT of turkeys are going to be purchased in the next 14 days.

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Thanksgiving is fast approaching — just three weeks until the 24th.  Are you American Eco Warriors ready?

For years, Recycla has been fascinated by the historical First Thanksgiving at Plymouth Plantation, which was a simple harvest festival that was held in 1621. (Thanksgiving feasts have been held after the harvest all over the world for centuries.)  For their festival, the Pilgrims would have eaten what they had available at that time of the year.  In that part of Massachusetts in 1621 those foods were:

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