For those of you who have been following me for a while, you may rightly believe that “I am” passionate about the environment. But the real truth behind a thing isn’t the “I am”, but “why am I?” “Why am I passionate about the Environment, and how does that permeate every other thing that I choose to do or not do?” What does the Environment have to do with me doing my own remodeling, and what does that have to do with “Reuse?”

Those of us that are “Green” struggle with it every day. We try to be deep green to help make up for all the people that are “Purple.” (The opposite of Green. Those people who consume and pollute to an excessive degree) We struggle against the very real and human instinct for comfort, taste and sensuality. We try not to eat to much beef, we recycle our toilet paper tubes, we re-set the margins on our printer paper (that ones for you Robin) and we make do with less, reuse what we can and recycle the rest. It’s difficult. It really is, but it helps define us.