I watched the shows about eco-friendly homes and felt vaguely guilty that my house isn’t green. It is at least recycled, since it was built before 1900, but it doesn’t have a lot of the things that an eco-friendly person would use in new construction. Then, I realized that I could still try to go green a step at a time and that I had been actually doing so all along. I have made many eco-friendly changes simply be choosing the greener option whenever possible.

For example, as each light bulb burned out, I replaced it with a CFL light bulb, …read more