In their monthly piece What I’ve Learned, Esquire magazine asks a noted figure or personality to share their life lessons. In celebration of the new decade in which we hope to grow an learn a great many lessons, greenlimbs would like to share what we’ve learned so far:
Wax-lined coffee cups and grease-marked pizza boxes are not recyclable.
No matter how dingy, dirty, smelly or ugly the recycling bin, it will still be stolen.
Plastic bags are the bane of our existence.
It is very hard to change people’s minds. It is even harder to change their behaviors.
Heaven is an independent bookstore.
People are very intimidated by the word “sustainability.”
“Sustainability” is difficult to type without spell-check.
Even the most carnivorous of men can embrace Meatless Monday.
Successful composting is like sweet redemption for kids who failed science.
Sometimes choosing the lesser of two evils is the best you can do.
Door to door solicitation takes thick skin.
It’s a small world (after all).
Weatherproofing can save a marriage.
Education has the capacity to solve all the world’s ills.
Driving sucks. Parking sucks more.
There are more complainers than doers. It’s okay to be the former if you come around to being the latter.
Tending a tree is like raising a strong, silent child.
Conservation can become an obsession.
You gain more by listening than by speaking.
Slow, permanent change is better than a quickly-adopted trend.
Government follows the people, not the other way around.
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