Blog #9

To be honest, we could certainly use more Jimmy Cardigans right now, about a billion of them. I’d like to think of myself similar to that persona. As described in previous blogs, we have made many changes in our home and lifestyle to be healthier all around; healthy for us and healthy for our planet. Like trading in our SUV for a 4 cylinder car and cutting our cable. Cutting the cable reduces the amount of time we sit in front of the television burning electricity. Instead, we burn calories or read. I agree with steering us away from non-renewable energy sources. We have so many resources available to us that are free and will never run out. Solar energy is the one with the most potential. Solar energy is also the source of other renewable energies that we use such as wind and plants. We are looking into retractable indoor clotheslines so that we can stop using the dryer when washing clothes. That, over time, should save not only money but energy, reducing our footprint at my address. In the next five years, we plan to have our air conditioner converted to solar power, and eventually, have a home built to run on solar power altogether.