Think about it

Being green is trendy right now. Which I think is a good thing, at least people are waking up to the fact that maybe the earth does need some protection, lest it be destroyed by the people who take so much from it. But I am a little concerned about the people who are so eager to be seen as green that they are doing more damage than they are helping to fix.

Andrew and I were passing some time before Numb3rs came on Friday night, so we watched Greenovate on On Demand. Greenovate is a show about people making green revovations to their home. One of them looked semi-interesting so we put it on. And the couple on the show left me scratching my head.

They had some good ideas - they wanted energy star rated appliances, wanted a newer HVAC system to use less electricity, things like that. But as any true green person will tell you, creating more waste goes against the very basic priciples of living a greener lifestyle.

They hired an interior designer who specializes in organic household items. One of the suggestions she had was to spend a LOT of money on a new organic mattress and bedframe. But.... nothing was wrong with their old mattress and frame. They didn't NEED a new mattress. Maybe when they need a new mattress they could look into the spiffy organic one. But they just created more waste by throwing away a perfectly good mattress. And they were re-tiling their shower with some cool looking pebbles from some river.... maybe the Nile. But anyway, they liked the tiles so much, they ripped up the tiles in front of the fireplace to re-tile that. The problem? They never intended on re-tiling that area and it didn't need to be re-tiled. So they ripped up perfectly good tiles and threw them away. For what? Because they liked the look of the new tile.

I know people redecorate every single day and throw things away that don't need to be thrown away. But to do it in the name of being green is ridiculous. Being wasteful isn't being green.