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Sustainable Living Rule #3: Take Your Time

Posted on July 03, 2008

Take it easy. Go slow. Take your time.Lately, I've been writing about lessons learned during my three-month sustainable living experiment. Most of them are not concrete facts, but rather emotional insights which came to the forefront when the stresses of my new lifestyle began taking their toll.Welcome to my most significant understanding: that developing an environmentally sustainable lifestyle MUST be personal, too. It must reflect the individual. It is not a one-size-fits-all game plan for green living. There's an unfortunate popular Wonder Diet mindset pervading American ...

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