Contact your Congressperson today and save greenway/bike path federal funding programs!!!
TrekBikes and the League of American Bicyclists have shared that there is federal funding that is about to be eliminated!

On Thursday, February 2nd the House Transportation Committee is voting on the American Energy and Infrastructure Jobs Act, a bill thateliminates crucial funding for biking and walking. We stand to lose $1.2 billion and over 3,000 potential bike and pedestrian projects, including Safe Routes to School programs.   We need your help to preserve these dedicated biking and walking infrastructure funds.   What can you do?    1. Pick up the phone and contact your elected official. Find their phone number here. 2. Send an email to your elected official. Find their email here.

5minutes of your time, contacting your Congressperson via the link above will help save these necessary programs.  Without bike paths and greenways, people will use more carbon emitting vehicles and continue to pollute our environment.  ACT NOW!

As part of my overall eco-friendly healthy living goal, I've decided to reduce our family consumption of meat by 25%.  Going completely vegetarian was not an option (meeting a lot of resistance), so we figure we will compromise.  I am able to achieve my goal by active meat reduction.  For example, instead of cooking everything from the pre-packaged container, I make a conscious decision to only cook 3/4th of the chicken breasts and placing the rest in another storage container.  That way, we are consuming less meat and I compensate by adding fresh organic tomatoes (since we love tomatoes) to almost every dish.  So far, it's been a successful month.  The kids don't even notice having less meat portions (thank goodness).  I have officially stopped eating beef for almost nine years!  It's been so long.  I don't miss eating steak (the first 3 months were tough) at all.  Maybe by year end, we can reduce our meat consumption in half!  I noticed we are saving more money on our grocery bills as well.  Fresh vegetables and seasonal fruits are usually priced less than meat.

So instead of considering being a vegetarian vs. not, you have other options and might want to consider overall meat consumption reduction.  Bon appetite.

Ten days into the new year and there are already people who are back to their old ways or on "auto-pilot."  By now, most of us realize that in order to achieve any goal (small or great), we need to make a conscious effort and live like it matters.