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| There is so much out there about "green" these days--changing lightbulbs to flurorescents, reducing carbon footprint, etc. What kinds of things are you doing in that direction? Personally, I am growing a bigger garden this year. Food prices are so high, I have increased the variety and amount of vegetables I'm growing, and I will put up lots for the winter. Also, my husband is getting a motorcycle to commute to work on. Instead of driving our Jeep (18 mpg on a good day), we're spending about $3,000 to buy a 250cc Honda motorcycle that gets about 70 mpg, and the insurance is only about $100/year. I think it will end up paying for itself in a very short time, and will be putting less emissions into the air.
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| We've been living as green as possible for quite a few years--recycling everything we possibly can, not buying items wrapped in a lot of packaging, favoring products made using recycled content and so on. Also, we drive small vehicles and use our trusty, battered (gas-guzzling) farm truck as infrequently as possible. Soon, we plan to replace our car with a small van so we can haul some of our farm needs in that. Since John and I are the only human members of our family, in the past we've permanently removed the back seat from small vans and configured that way they really do accommodate a lot--like a fullgrown goat or sheep or a pretty good-size load of bagged feed. Can you tell that for us, serviceability is more important than style? :o) Something else we plan to do this year is to resist turning on our air conditioning until we can't stand the heat a moment longer. When we moved to the northern Arkansas Ozarks from Minnesota, we thought we'd never have air conditioning in our home. However, the heat and humidity here is outrageous; air conditioning is a necessity but we've vowed to tough it out as long as we possibly can. Sue
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[quote]Sue Weaver (5/13/2008)
We've been living fairly green for quite a few years--recycling everything we possibly can, not buying items wrapped in a lot of packaging, favoring products made using recycled content and so on. Also, we drive small vehicles and use our trusty, battered (gas-guzzling) farm truck as infrequently as possible.Soon, we plan to replace our car with a small van so we can haul some of our farm needs in that. Since John and I are the only human members of our family, in the past we've permanently removed the back seat from small vans and configured that way they really do accommodate a lot--like a fullgrown goat or sheep or a pretty good-size load of bagged feed. Can you tell that for us, serviceability is more important than style? :o) Something else we plan to do this year is to resist turning on our air conditioning until we can't stand the heat a moment longer. When we moved to the northern Arkansas Ozarks from Minnesota, we thought we'd never have air conditioning in our home. However, the heat and humidity here is outrageous; air conditioning is a necessity but we've vowed to tough it out as long as we possibly can. Sue
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