As the partner and mother in my family, I am dedicated to doing my best to keep our immediate and extended environments as clean as possible. That said, we all like to live in the moment without constant calculations and stress. In recognizing our responsibility to both needs, we spend a lot of time and effort working to keep on with our transition to an eco and health-conscious lifestyle while part of the time we just go with the flow.

Transitioning stress-free is key to this change. Not only because it feels better to be without stress, but for the plain fact that all the "green" in the world won't cancel out the damage done to one's health and environment that stress causes. That is why we live by and promote the "80/20 Rule™". 80% of the time we live green. 20% of the time, we let ourselves go, not in the sense that we go out on a conventional binge, but we just live in the moment. We eat at other's homes, out at restaurants, use air transport, take two cars to town and our kid plays and eats in homes that don't live the way we do. And that is ok by us. It has to be or we will get sick and render ourselves useless to our cause in the first place which is to live healthy and stress-free.

1. 99% of our diet consists of plant based foods, organically grown and locally sourced whenever possible
2. we reuse as much as possible
3. we use only glass and #304 stainless steel to store our food and drink
4. we use stainless steel and glass to-go water bottles
5. we use sustainable organic bamboo cooking utensils and cutting boards
6. we use all glass jars for freezing and storing food, breast milk and baby food
7. 90% of my daughters baby food was homemade, local and organic
8. we bring our own containers to restaurants for coffee and takeout
9. we drive a 1983 Mercedes 240D and she eats as much vegetable oil as we can give her
10. we have converted half of our closets to preowned, organic and sustainably sourced clothing
11. 99% of our daughter's toys and clothing are preowned, sustainable and toxin-free
12. we get most of our food from local organic farms (CSA) 3 seasons out of the year
13. we support local economy as much as possible
14. we recycle everything from plastic to batteries
15. we live in a very very old home
16. the wood in our "new" wood floors was reclaimed
17. all of our home updates are energy efficient, no-voc and pre-owned
18. more then half of our light bulbs are compact fluorescent
19. we try to carpool into town
20. we are exploring solar heating/lighting
21. we have a goal to be completely off of the grid in 7 years
22. we run a legitimate "green" business dedicated to sharing sustainable "green" goods and information