It’s easy to jump on the green bandwagon, but this is not something new and trendy that will make us cool today. Being green is a way of life that many of our parents and grandparents embraced while we thought they were being cheap. Remember how they always turned out the lights and reused those paper bags until they were falling apart? If you don’t then your Mom and Grandma were of the consumer mentality that became the norm in the second half of the 20^th century. We are now having to re-adjust our thinking to remember our conservative roots. By conservative I’m not talking politics, but the need to be good stewards and conserve our resources.

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