How can I help Go Green at home?
There’s a lot of talk about all these supposedly great products one can buy to “go green” – while you’re expected to throw away all the old “non-green” ones they’re replacing to make room for them. I’m reminded of the tale of a person who was so enamored by the “go green” mentality that they replaced all their kitchen countertops with new ones made from colorful, recycled plastic – and to do so, they wasted their perfectly good granite counters that would’ve lasted a century longer. Meanwhile, despite its being recycled, the new countertops required a lot of fossil fuels to be burned for it to be manufactured and shipped, not to mention all the energy and resources that went into marketing it, which were indirectly “bought” by the consumer. So it’s definitely easy to get swept up in “green fever” without really considering the consequences of one’s actions. Yes, it’s great to replace your clothes dryer with a more efficient model – but not if it means that all the energy that went into
