Ideal Bite

OK, maybe you - like me - suffer occasionally from the summer doldrums (people think I'm nuts, but honestly, while spring and fall rock my world, summer can make me consider bridge jumps).

Fortunately, however, I have come up with a cure for what ails me.  This summer, every day, I am going to try to do one thing that makes me feel like I'm making a little change for myself and the world (sounds suspiciously like the mission of this company, doesn't it?)

Seriously, though - it's bizarre.  What shopping therapy does for some, "green therapy" does for me. I can't explain to you how great I feel when I fill up my SIGG bottle or put in a faucet filter instead of buying a bottle of water.  I love saying "Oh no, I don't need a bag" at the drugstore.  I get completely weird satisfaction from putting my used ink cartridges in the mail and sending them back to the manufacturers.   I feel all warm and fuzzy when I look around my bathroom and realize that - with a few exceptions - I have a nearly paraben-free beauty habit. 

But I gotta say - changing those CFL bulbs takes the cake.

Try it. CHANGE at least ONE of your lightbulbs to a CFL version.  (Then go to Environmental Defense and let them know you did it - they are keeping track). It's amazing how good it makes you feel.  You unscrew the one, screw in the CFL version, turn it on (waiting that caught-breath half-a-beat waiting time that it takes the CFL to light up), and... drum roll...

Viola!  Instant feel-good.

They might be more expensive than regular lightbulbs - but think of it this way: even putting aside the fact that they pay for themselves in energy savings:

They are a LOT cheaper than therapy.

-Heather... off to thin the blossoms off my heirloom tomatoes...

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