As citizens of our earth, we all bear an important environmental responsibility. Environmental issues and environmental choices are presented to us each and every day. As a result, and as our consciousness is continually raised, many of us are choosing to live a green lifestyle. Our green living choices come in many different forms - some small, some quite large.

The choices we make to go green can aggregate to widespread responsible environmental stewardship as a community as we all move toward living more lightly on our earth. These green living choices manifest themselves in many ways. For example, when we choose our energy sources, we may choose renewable or sustainable modes of energy production such as solar power or wind power in our pursuit to be as eco-friendly and ecological as we can be. The choice to implement a solar power generation project in our home or office can become an important step in reinforcing our individual and collective environmental stewardship responsibilities. Solar power can be an effective way to go green and it can be as simple as a solar water heater, as elegant as solar panels on your RV or as comprehensive as an eco-friendly, complete solar panel project for your entire home. Renewable energy is a responsible choice.

Another eco-friendly, ecological method of generating sustainable, renewable energy comes in the form of wind turbines. Wind power is coming of age rapidly as wind turbines and the technology behind wind turbines and wind power generation is experiencing significant advances. Wind power, like solar power, is a wonderful way to take the environmental high road.

Reducing our carbon footprint is a key objective of any EnviroCitizen in their pursuit of a green, eco-friendly lifestyle. Reducing your carbon footprint is simply ecological, as we say. Carbon is produced by so many different things it is difficult to name them all. Reducing your carbon footprint begins by simply reducing your overall consumption. But that alone is not enough. The environmental choices we make must include as many renewable, sustainable energy and production practices as we can support.

Eco-friendly, ecological decisions about reducing our carbon footprint must include a thoughtful process regarding sustainable products and sustainable product materials as well as local sourcing. While we all strive to make all the right choices – live green, be eco-friendly and ecological, choose renewable energy sources, use sustainable and recycled materials for a renovation project, etc... - we can never completely offset our carbon footprint. So, we reduce the carbon we can reduce and we offset the carbon we cannot reduce by supporting carbon offset projects.

In our pursuit of informed environmental citizenship, it is vitally important to keep abreast of environmental news as well as environmental issues. This allows us the opportunity to participate actively, and in an informed manner, as we attempt to lead our community to a greener, eco-friendly, ecological set of choices.