rachelm's blog

Anything you can do I can do greener. I can do anything greener than you. No you can't. Yes I can. No you can't. Yes I can.... My apologies to Irving Berlin, but these days it seems almost everyone I know wants to live greener than ever. Its become local cachet... to the tune of: I only drive three days a week. Well I gave up driving and ride the bus. I quit driving my car and I bought a bike. I got my bike out of the bulk trash and rebuilt it. I walk everywhere... and I bought my shoes second-hand... It can become almost silly, but it is a positive point of pride. This is a good thing as long as we remember that simply tearing out all the old "non-green" materials from our living places and dumping the mess in the landfill to make room in our homes for the new "greener than thou" materials isn't always the true "green way".

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Green on the Road

I'm visiting my mother in a senior living community in western Pennsylvania, and realizing again how easy it is for many of us to live "green" in Austin. I'd like to use this forum to chat about what other parts of the world are doing (well and not-so-well) to be "greener", how we can learn from them and adopt good practices, and just to share ideas that we've picked up in our travels. Let's not limit it, though... we'll see what evolves!

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