We hung lights on the outside of the house today. The days are short, the nights are long, the temperatures dropped precipitously last night and the wind was cutting. Thanksgiving feast finished; the garden cleaned up of dead leaves and everything looks brown and bare. Wintry. I like lights on bushes and around doorways. I like the bravery of it. Yet as I connected string to string, I couldn't help but wonder how many watts I was consuming. Inside the house we have converted to CFL bulbs in an effort to conserve energy. When I buy a new light fixture I choose one that will accept a CFL. I follow my teenagers around shutting off the light fixtures they leave burning. Then I blithely string lights around the outside of my house on the off chance they will cheer the passerby!
In everything we do we make a choice. We can weigh the monetary cost and the environmental cost. To live without consuming excessively what does that mean?
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