For all of you who do not know, Project Appleseed is a project that we at Greener Thinking started as a test to see how well we could do on our own to help the environment. Many people would say we failed… but we are not ones who quit!

First we ordered some pines through the Arbor Day foundation but found that even though our site says we are green we found our thumbs were not. These pines took an ugly turn for the worse and soon were naked and without needle.

Next we tried to expand and start from the beginning while also keeping in touch with our original name for the project (Project Appleseed). So I planted two apple trees one was a Fuji and the other was a Gala. Everything seemed to go well. Until, one day I noticed that the Fuji did not approve of the love it was given and decided to lose all of its leaves. Luckily the Gala held strong and grew like a champ. Its now about eight inches tall and looking a little funny with its leaf placement.

Along the way I also started to grow a Pineapple… still has the word apple in it right? To do this I took off the top of a pineapple and planted it. This is growing pretty well too but, I don’t think it will ever make the transfer to the great outdoors. They aren’t really fans of Michigan winters.

This just proves that no matter how bad you are you can grow at least a couple of things. Below I have some pictures so you can see our progress.

Hello everyone,
We have been working hard on a couple of new things. The first thing you may notice is that we now have a new look. This new look will help expose us to a wider audience and also reduce the amount of time that we spend working on the site. I mean, lets face it, we are Greener Thinking, we inform people about Green News and experiments that we have done (or are doing), we are not here to build websites. The less time we work on the way the page looks the more cool stuff you get to read.

So why have we not written anything in some time, you may ask.
Well thats a good question… but not an easy answer. We are addicted to the outdoors, and we also have day jobs. Did I mention we like the outdoors? Well, we spent a lot of time outside this summer and did not keep the site as updated as we would have liked but, we have also been working on something else during this break. I hope I can reveal more soon… but not right now.

Back to the outside thing! Since we had some time off hanging outside, we should have quite a bit of material to make some pretty cool articles. I traveled all over Michigan from south east lower Michigan to the Porcupine Mountains and back. I have some very cool pictures.

I also would like to do some updates to Project Appleseed. This is a project we started in celebration of Arbor Day. We had a couple of hiccups along the way. First off we bought some pines and they did not really appreciate the travel… and you can read more about what happened here and here.

Well please look around and explore. We now have a comments section to get everyone more involved, good or bad. Let us know.
Enjoy!