Living Like Ed - (Page 15) of your life. In fact, I’ll bet you barely even notice the difference. When you feel more confident and more comfortable—better acclimated, if you will—you make one or two more changes, and so on and so on. Six Areas of Your Life There’s a certain fear factor about “going green.” Many reasonable people think, “Wait a minute. I don’t wanna be shivering in the dark, just so I can save a little energy.” But that’s not what it’s about. You’ll still be able to have a cool beverage and a warm shower. I’m just gonna show you how to have those things more efficiently. I sometimes refer to my house as the SS Begley, and Rachelle claims that I run it like I’m the captain of a ship. But it’s all about efficiency, organization, maintenance, and conservation. And my house is just one area of my life where I’ve applied these principles. My goal is to help you understand the choices you can make to simplify your life, to help the environment, to save energy, and to save money. In the pages that follow I’ll offer suggestions for all six of the areas in our lives where we can be more efficient: • home • transportation • recycling • energy • garden 15 chapter: title and kitchen and hair and skin care • clothing Anyone who takes a step toward helping the environment makes me happy. I see people—even big businesses—making progress all the time. It doesn’t matter if it’s Wal-Mart or McDonald’s or one of my friends or neighbors. In the 10k of life, when a runner who seems to have been lagging behind sprints ahead, he deserves a pat on the back and assistance in the race. I’ll help you discover some of the changes, large and small, that you can make. I’ve even marked these suggestions to make them easy to spot.
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