One of the most popular actions on Practically Green is Use reusable shopping bags regularly. 10 easy points, right?

But I have to admit it took me about a year to remember to bring reusable bags into a store, and I know I’m not alone. One friend, a perfectly competent smart woman, makes herself walk back out of the store to get the bags from her car where she left them. She calls this “the walk of shame” – though I doubt anyone else notices her doing it. In my own case, I cringe to confess that I sometimes/often wind up buying the bags they have on sale at the cash register – and now I have so many I’m giving them away. Ugh.

Good news! You can avoid all of that madness! Get yourself one of these free car window static clings!

The Clings: two shapes to choose from!

The clings come from a company called Conserving Now, a company co-founded by a mother-daughter team in Reno, Nevada.  Their site includes information for teachers and parents,community ideas, a shop (which includes lots of reusable bags!), and lots more.

Gayle and Meghan

Gayle and Meghan told us more about the clings and the vision behind them:

We get rave reviews on our cling.   Our community members have told us that they no longer forget their bags.    We have worked with many cities and organizations and the number one concern that they all have is that it is very difficult for people to change their behavior and actually remember their reusable bags.   We are thrilled to be able to provide that little extra help.   We have also partnered with many small and large corporations and organizations.   One example of such a partnership was our work with Grant Thorton, a large accounting firm where we provided educational content and car window static clings for each of their 5500 employees.   They also provided  additional sponsorship dollars for classroom kits to be distributed for earth day.   This is just one example of organizations stepping up to demonstrate their real commitment to their green initiatives.

We are also very focused on educating our youth.As a former teacher and a young mother, we both know how important it is to instill good environmental habits in our young people.   We have shipped our classroom kits all over the country and are actively looking for sponsors to help us do even more. We have a very close strategic partnership with Envirosax.   They include our car window static clings in their shipments and actively promote our site in addition to working with us closely to sponsor a significant number of classroom kits in 2011. In fact, we also partnered with a large federal credit union up in your neck of the woods to provide co-branded classroom kits to the community schools on their behalf. Many of our corporate partners are looking to support local green initiatives and report that our family interactive kits are the perfect vehicle to do just that. Our goal in creating the curriculum was to involve and educate not only each child but to include the family, teachers and school in all the activities.

We do sell product on our site, including our ultra sturdy cotton tote bags as well as the Envirosax line of bags.    100% of our profits go toward providing classroom kits and/or funding car window static clings for individuals.

Find them on Facebook and on Twitter @conservingnow. And put an end to forgetting to bring your bags when you go shopping!