one small change

the one small change initiative has been on my mind a lot...
i have been thinking and pondering how to approach the laundry detergent question and because of some light bulbs giving up, i started to do some researching for energy saving light bulbs...

now here we go, there were 3 bulbs which died over the past few weeks, we replaced those with cfl bulbs in our bathroom and the boys reading lamp as well as one of the hal-way spots. there are still some regular bulbs in our stash and i will use them up too. it seems like a sensible thing to not through out old but still working stuff. o, and by the way, switzerland as well as the eu has a put a regulation into place last year in september. the EP environment committee has approved the plan, under which incandescent bulbs are to be gradually phased out from September 2009 to 2012. so i guess i'm just about doing the mainstream thing...

now the laundry detergent...
i'm not there yet, but read a lot and was surprised that the biggest impact is not what kind of detergent is being used. the biggest impact has the dosage one uses for washing. and to my surprise, lots of people wash "clean" cloth...
the action items now are:
1. making sure we wash only dirty cloths
2. cut the measuring cup at the correct level of needed detergent (those little measuring cups are of course bigger as needed)
3. we will buy total from migros, it got the climat top label (if it would have been just for me and my family, we would have switched to held, but it's not just me there are 8 other adults involved in our laundry process, i will keep the detergent a topic and who knows if we will be able to make the switch at some point...)
o yes and here a quick link for my american friends....