Green Choices

Well, it's Earth Day today so I thought I'd share something a little different. Usually I share things with you that are geared toward choosing how you are living your life and choosing to do things that make you feel happy and fulfilled. The thing is that all the same principles about choice apply to the environment.

I'm not an envirnmental activist. I live in a traditional suburban house, using electricity and natural gas. We mow our lawn (no sheep here:)and drive our cars. I have no intention of trading that in for a yurt and a bicycle. But we do believe in being kind to our environment and have found that we can "clean up our act" by making small, simple choices.

The concepts are the same and the techniques are the same. All you have to do is make a small choice, something that isn't horribly difficutl. Then do that thing over and over until it becomes a habit.

The latest thing we did was composting. I've never quite pulled myself together enough to create a compost pile. I've looked at it, but it always seems to be difficult. You have to balance green stuff and brown stuff, you have to turn it, it has to get up to temperature...it's probably not all that difficult but it just seems too hard to get started. However, my recycling pick-up also takes yard waste, a.k.a. compostable items. So now we throw all our veggie scraps, tea, etc in a little container by the sink then just add it to our yard waste bags. Simple, quick, easy.

There are hundreds of simple, quick and easy choices you can make. And if everyone makes one choice we can have a large impact.

So in honor of earth day I encourage you to make one grean choice today. Something quick, simple and easy like changing one light bulb to compact flourescent or buying an eco-friendly cleaner or dishwasher detergent. One choice, one change, one improvement.