{"id":306,"date":"2024-07-29T17:50:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:50:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/clients.computerguru.me\/ps\/wprebuild\/?p=306"},"modified":"2024-07-29T17:50:37","modified_gmt":"2024-07-29T17:50:37","slug":"small-doesnt-mean-insignificant-going-green","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/clients.computerguru.me\/ps\/wprebuild\/2024\/07\/29\/small-doesnt-mean-insignificant-going-green\/","title":{"rendered":"Small Doesn\u2019t Mean Insignificant: Going Green"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not easy being green,\u201d Kermit the Frog sang with great feeling. Today, 51 years after the song debuted on <em>Sesame Street<\/em> in 1970, the reality expressed in that one line hasn\u2019t changed: It isn\u2019t easy being or going, green.<\/p>\n<p>Kermit\u2019s struggles with <em>being<\/em> green are, of course, different from the struggles that <em>going<\/em> green can involve. But making eco-friendly choices\u2014from what we buy and eat to how we get ourselves from one place to another\u2014isn\u2019t easy. It is, however, necessary, not only to improve our own well-being but also to help sustain the life of, and on, our planet.<\/p>\n<p>Attempting to overhaul long-term behaviors in a short period of time usually causes frustration (<em>Why does this involve so much decision-making? I thought it was supposed to make life easier!<\/em>), self-recrimination (<em>Social\/magazines\/books\/TV shows make this look simple. Why is it challenging for me?<\/em>) and defeat (<em>Life is complicated enough as it is\u2014I don\u2019t need even more complications<\/em>).<\/p>\n<p>Rather than trying to fast-track major changes and become green overnight, approach it as an opportunity for self-education, and set small, manageable goals. Swapping out incandescent light bulbs with LED bulbs in your home, for example, is a considerably cheaper, and easier, goal than installing a solar panel. And even though swapping out light bulbs is a smaller change than putting in a solar panel, it still has an impact: LED bulbs use less energy than incandescent bulbs, which reduces the demand from your home on the local power plant, which in turn reduces greenhouse emissions. They also last longer, which reduces the number of bulbs that get thrown away and wind up in a landfill.<\/p>\n<p>Other little changes that can have long-term effects:<\/p>\n<p>\u00b7 Getting (and using) a reusable water bottle<br \/>\n\u00b7 Buying a reusable straw and saying no to plastic ones<br \/>\n\u00b7 Going paperless and switching to online payments<br \/>\n\u00b7 Setting a small bucket or container out on your porch\/front stoop\/fire escape to collect rainwater and then using it to water houseplants<\/p>\n<p>Making incremental, lasting changes to our lives leads to incremental, lasting changes in our relationships with ourselves, our communities, and our planet. Remember that small doesn\u2019t mean insignificant, especially when it comes to Earth!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cIt\u2019s not easy being green,\u201d Kermit the Frog sang with great feeling. Today, 51 years after the song debuted on Sesame Street in 1970, the reality expressed in that one line hasn\u2019t changed: It isn\u2019t easy being or going, green. Kermit\u2019s struggles with being green are, of course, different from the struggles that going green [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-articles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/clients.computerguru.me\/ps\/wprebuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/clients.computerguru.me\/ps\/wprebuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/clients.computerguru.me\/ps\/wprebuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clients.computerguru.me\/ps\/wprebuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clients.computerguru.me\/ps\/wprebuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/clients.computerguru.me\/ps\/wprebuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":315,"href":"http:\/\/clients.computerguru.me\/ps\/wprebuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306\/revisions\/315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/clients.computerguru.me\/ps\/wprebuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clients.computerguru.me\/ps\/wprebuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/clients.computerguru.me\/ps\/wprebuild\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}