Balanced Green Living

The squeaking wheel gets the grease they say, and so it goes in the court of public opinion. When it comes to Eco-News and green living, he who has the most sensational opinion seems to get the most airplay, thus shaping the future of things to come. Buzz words are thrown around from both sides of the environmental issue; words like: ‘tree hugger’ and ‘whacko environmentalist’ are pitched from one side, while remarks such as ‘pollutocrat‘ and ‘brown living’ are thrown down the other. But why does everyone have to take a side and gather at an extreme? Is there not a middle ground where most of us normal folks can meet and exist at? In my life, I have found that balance is the key to a healthy life and good conscience:

Wikipedia defines green living or sustainable living this way:

Sustainable living refers to a specific lifestyle that attempts to reduce an individual’s or society’s use of the Earth’s natural resources. Practitioners of sustainable living often attempt to reduce their carbon footprints by altering methods of transportation, energy consumption and diet. Proponents of sustainable and ecological living aim to conduct their lives in manners that are consistent with sustainability, in natural balance and respectful of humanity’s symbiotic relationship with the earth’s natural ecology and cycles. The practice and general philosophy of ecological living is highly interrelated with the overall principles of sustainable development. By minimizing their “ecological footprints” – the extent to which they create an environmental impact – proponents of ecological living hope to preserve the earth for future generations of human beings and other life.

Did you catch the key term in there? “Natural Balance”

I see no room for extremes in this definition. In fact, I see anything but.

Living Green means constantly seeking a balance between relative personal comfort and keeping an ear and eye on the impact one has on the world around him… …respect the world around you in such a manner as to actively preserve your surroundings for future generations.

If you want to live green, you don’t have to give up eating steak and ride a bike to the office everyday. On the other hand, that doesn’t give you license to dump used oil in the street or torch your lawn with improperly mixed pesticides.

Maybe I’m naive, but I just happen to think that most regular folks want to fall in the middle. They’d feel good about being green if someone would just step up and define it for them leaving aside the politicaly charged emotion and squeaky wheel philosophy.

And that is what this site, Balanced Green Living is all about. I will help you find that middle ground that seems more normal than what you have been shoveled thus far. I know you want to do what is right and good for our planet, you just don’t know who to trust. That’s why we’re here:

Balanced Green Living is Eco Friendly for Regular Folks.