Love it or hate it: We’re about to be in the chaotic holiday season.
The 4th ‘R’ of achieving green-ness is the one not often discussed: Refuse it.
While recycling, reducing and reusing are all crucial, always ask yourself of you really need that freebie, gift or flyer someone’s trying to stuff in your face. It’s OK to say no and politely decline.
It will also spare Aunt Sally’s feelings when she sees that homeless guy on 7th wearing that hot pink fleece hat that you really didn’t need…
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[...] By our conversation, you’d think I was born designated into this ‘eco-lover’ lifestyle. Just how I was born into a loud and Eastern-European-Irish mutt and whiskey-loving family. Was caring about the earth a genetic combination I was cursed into, just like my abnormally tiny eyes and obnoxiously loud laugh? Or was it more like when priests and nuns claim “God” came to them and sentenced a lifestyle of poverty and black-colored robes? Was there some sort of higher up tree-being that brainwashed my mind one night (preferably after too many Old Fashioneds) with a mantra of “Reduce, Reuse, Recycle & “Refuse”? [...]