… complete destruction of the earth, apparently.<\/p>\n
You see, I think of my self as fairly eco-concious. I don’t drive a car. I make sure to use compact fluorescent light bulbs. I don’t leave the water running when doing dishes or brushing my teeth. I also recycle.<\/p>\n
Generally.<\/p>\n
But certain times it’s not convenient for small things. For example, I tend to throw the tiny box that my bar of soap comes in into the trash can in the bathroom. I’m usually naked at the time (since you don’t realize you need soap until you’re planning to shower) and running downstairs to the recycling bin for a small, flimsy, piece of cardboard doesn’t seem like it’ll benefit the world that<\/em> much.<\/p>\n But every time I do that, Randy will pluck the 2 inch by 4 inch box from the trash can and bring it to the recycling bin (often with what I interpret to be a\u00a0slightly exaggerated sense of\u00a0 frustration), as if I’d just poured 10 million gallons of oil in the Atlantic. Meanwhile, Randy is the same guy who will flitter about the house from room to room leaving beind him a wake of illuminated rooms\u00a0 – never even thinking about shutting off the lights. I tend to follow behind and turn lights off as often as he’s turning them on.<\/p>\n It is rather peculiar. He seems to focus on the material benefits of being environmentally responsible (recycling), whereas I’m more focused on the conservation side (not wasting electricity). Combined, I guess we make a good match and balance each other out.<\/p>\n Though, the one area where I’m Al Gore’s number one enemy is when it comes to\u00a0showering. I love a good shower. And a good shower has lots of water pressure and takes at least 15 minutes, ideally 25-30 minutes. I become all giddy and austic in the shower, standing under the warm water, \u00a0humming happily, while rocking back and forth and enjoying the spray.<\/p>\n I like to think I make up for it by not running water when I shave, brush my teeth, or even wash dishes (I’ll get things wet, turn off water, then scrub and stack until done…then turn water on again\u00a0to rinse). And Randy and I just ordered a new energy-efficient dishwasher that should help, too.<\/p>\n So, I still think I do my part.\u00a0Don’t \u00a0judge me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" … complete destruction of the earth, apparently. You see, I think of my self as fairly eco-concious. I don’t drive a car. I make sure to use compact fluorescent light bulbs. I don’t leave the water running when doing dishes or brushing my teeth. I also recycle. Generally. But certain times it’s not convenient for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2271","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2271"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2273,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2271\/revisions\/2273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/snarl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}