Peer pressure has never been something that I could be accused of succumbing to. I smoke cigars. I drive a 4×4 SUV. I drink beer, I chew tobacco. I wear cowboy boots, cowboy hats and am more often given puns on Grizzly Adams jokes and redneck references.

As I have grown older I have found myself making, for lack of a better word, green decisions, however.

I’m not sure when I made this change.

A recent conversation with V00d3w is what spurred my questioning of how I make decisions, and I wondered when this change took place.

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I’d read a story in Consumer Reports a while back, that phosphate dish detergents were going to the wayside.

I didn’t think much about it.

Then the New York Times did a piece on it as well. Still didn’t pay much attention.

This week, I paid attention.

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Huffington post recently wrote a story entitled 9 Ways to Not Own a Car.

Like most how not to own car editorials it is written purely for people who live in cities.

Those of us who live in rural parts of America pretty much can not do any of these things.

A Small Example as follows.

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