How long does it take...

Our good friends at Practically Green wrote a post today about the Boston Water Crisis and the Gulf Oil Disaster.  It's a good piece, and I suggest you give it a quick read.  One paragraph really grabbed my attention:

How long does it take to form a healthy habit? I estimate it has taken me a year to switch to using cloth bags for grocery shopping 100% of the time, without a second thought. How many times did I spank myself and trudge back to the car to get the bags (“the walk of shame,” one friend calls it).

What I found troubling was how quickly people bolted for the grocery stores to load up on cases and cases of bottled water.  We've all worked so hard to break the habit of using bottled water and switch to reusable bottles.  It doesn't take much to fall off the wagon.



We're happy to say we made it through the water crisis with only one 6 gallon water cooler of clean water.  We didn't buy any individual bottles of water, and we didn't have to boil any water either.  Good thing we had a lot of Klean Kanteens to get us through the mess.