(Impact) Living is easy...

All this talk about impact shopping got me thinking in lists, and it's surprisingly easy...(some of them I'm already doing):

• co-op (I get a wicked good employees discount!)


• farmer's market


• Goodwill


• patronize local businesses


• patronize businesses in my neighborhood/end of town


• drive less


• water, no soda, less coffee (fair trade & organic)


• pillage friends' gardens/grow my own


• bike to church


• short showers ("Keep 400 pounds of CO2 out of the atmosphere annually by shortening your shower." from NCP)


• no smoking (don't give them your money! plus all the energy to grow, manufacture, distribute to the market, cover up unethically for something so clearly unhealthy)


• reuse paper


• compost


• no lot-fed beef (only local or organic or free-range; none from the Amazon)


• print duplex (and talk profs into accepting papers in this format...it's a seminary...it should seem obvious)


• no Haye's stores


• open source software


• d.i.y. (do it yourself)


• don't make a bigger impact (drive farther, etc...) just to accomplish these


I'm sure I'll think of more...