Less Can Be More - So you're driving a fuel-efficient hybrid car, you replaced your carpeting with sustainable bamboo laminate flooring, and you wear clothes made only from eco-friendly natural fibers. What more could you do? Maybe you should ask yourself how you could do less. Consider all the energy that went into the mining and the harvesting of the raw materials for your car, flooring, and designer duds, and add to that the energy required to manufacture and transport them. Then ask yourself if you couldn't have done without those things, if not forever, then at least for a little bit longer. Sure, your old gas-guzzler isn't as eco-friendly as that shiny new hybrid you've had your eye on, but at least we don't have to mine the metals, fuel the foundry furnaces, and run the automobile assembly lines every time you start it up, so put off buying the new car as long as you can. Ditto with the bamboo flooring and designer jeans. As an earth-conscious consumer, sometimes less is more.

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