Living green with a large family.

And, save the world by being poor, or at least acting like it.  Contains a lot of sensible advice that I really need to listen to.

Step 1, the easiest one, is to buy nothing.

Don't buy new clothes, don't buy furniture, don't buy gadgets. Don't buy appliances, don't buy bottled water. Don't buy Baltic Avenue.

When you buy less, there is less to throw away when you're done with it; there is less trucking to deliver it to the stores; there is less mileage when you don't go anywhere to buy it; and of course you use less electricity when you don't own a lot of things that plug in.

And people who buy bottled water are morons. This is not a green statement, it's just a fact. Unless your local water is dangerous, stop fooling yourself! IT'S FRIGGIN WATER!

Okay, that last sentence was my main purpose for starting a blog in the first place. I feel better now.

Great stuff -- I will be bookmarking this blog, titled I have to sit down.

(UPDATE:  A quote I like even better, from the other part of that two-part post:

With seven or eight kids, you don't buy anything. I'm serious. I buy, like, food, paper, gin, and soap. There isn't room for anything else in this house.)

h/t HMS, which I will get back to as soon as my daughter stops vomiting on me.