SeeingGreen ™

Seeing Green is part lifestyle, part ethos, but mostly it is about having fun while living consciously and sustainably. Here are a few tips to help you start Seeing Green.

* Paper or plastic? Neither. Bring your own bag. While you’re at it, bring your own travel mug for coffee and skip the plastic water bottles - refill your own container.

* Carry out more than you packed in. There’s always a little trash to dispose or recycle in its proper place.

* Be nice to others. Hold the door open for someone else, say please, thank you and let others merge into traffic. You will feel better and perhaps make someone else smile.

* Offset your carbons. Educate yourself about what you can do to help stop global warming. See Al Gore’s movie, “An Inconvenient Truth.”

* Relish the wonders of the library. Free (to borrow) books, movies, periodicals and helpful staff. What more could you want?

* Leave your car at home. Walk, bike, skip or scoot. You’ll get a whole new perspective.

* Try something different. Explore a new neighborhood, shop at an ethnic market, read a book about something new to you.

* Get lost. Open up your mind, senses and spirit. It might just take you somewhere.

* Be grateful. Many of us in these here parts have it pretty good. Think for a moment about someone else, in another part of the world that is ravaged by war, famine, and oppression. Appreciate what you have.

* Get involved with something other than yourself. Volunteer, donate, help a neighbor.