Welcome and what this is about

I've always thought that the environment was worth caring about. Even as a child I wanted to save the trees and stop pollution. But aside from saying that, I had nothing. Time went by and life got in the way of these notions. They were still there poking me in the back of the brain every time I did something wasteful but still there was no clear picture of what I should do, if anything.

Fast forward to 2010. Global Warming was becoming climate change and seemed real bad. Again, the only thing I was doing about it was sitting around hoping something would be done. I didn't have a job at the time so I spent a lot of my time watching things on netflix and reading.  A movie came up called The Age Of Stupid. It seemed like a good way to kill about 90 minutes so I hit play. The movie absolutely blew me away. It didn't preach, it didn't lecture, and it didn't even try to call us to action. It just mixed the truth with some speculation and some dark humor. I turned to my girlfriend and said we should do something. Her response, which is the response of the majority, was that it costs a lot to go green. She was right, or so I thought.

The next day I went for a walk outside. I have a treadmill in my basement. It is old but it still works well. I've always used it as a good form of exercise and I can stay in the air conditioning, but not that day.  I racked my brain trying to come up with something I could do that would help cut back on my carbon footprint that wouldn't bankrupt me. While I was beating myself up my girlfriend found a recycling drop off site near by. And I sat down in front of the internet and began to drink up as much information as possible.

Over the last two years we have cut our electric and water bill down by a third and we are only sending one quarter of what we were sending to the landfill! And with all of these changes we have spent very little money. On this blog I'm going to talk about what I've done in the past, my current green projects, and the future. Hopefully I'll give you a few ideas. And I hope you give me some as well.