Earth Day 2013

Salute to Mother Earth. Canyonlands, Utah, 2013

So what am I personally doing about moving toward a more sustainable life on this Earth? (We all need to pitch in and do a little, you know!)

Well, aside from the standard recyling, combining automobile trips, and using the bicycle in good weather, we have as our objective a move this summer to a small apartment within walking distance of most of the services we regularly need–grocery store, bank, pharmacy, etc. We will also eventually get rid of one of our two cars and the one remaining vehicle, if all goes as planned, will be a fuel-efficient hybrid.

These lifestyle changes ought to have a huge impact on our personal family carbon footprint (cut it in half by Earth Day 2014, is the idea) as well as have the imminently practical effect of reducing the amount of money that flows out of our bank account.

Will our contribution make a difference in the rate of consumption of resources and in the overall global warming equation? Not much. But imagine if we all did something similar! Then there would certainly be a tremendous impact..and we have to start somewhere, right?