Are you perplexed by the new green movement? Perhaps you genuinely care about the earth, but you fail to see how using biodegradable laundry detergent will change the world in a meaningful way. If someone told you how important your small changes were, and why you should care, you would be on board. Read on, because below are simple ideas that will vastly improve our earth and make your personal shade of green a little, well, greener.

As an energy conservation consultant, if I had a compact florescent light bulb for every time a client told me that children are their barrier to energy efficiency, I could replace the sun, (with 75% less heat of course). But still, in my own younger days I remember rolling my eyes at Dad's silly suggestion that I turn a light off after I left the room. Like many things in life, saving energy can be difficult to grasp when you are not the one writing the checks. Since the law currently requires we support our children until age 18, I produced the following set of ideas for inspiring our children to save energy.