Don’t doubt it for a moment – minimalism is green. The act of buying less stuff is unquestionable better for the environment. All the crap we normally buy has to be made somewhere, usually using fossil fuels, in factories that spew crap into the air. That crap then has to be shipped to the store – again, using fossil fuels, more crap spewing into the air. Whether you’re a pot-smoking hippy or not, you can see that’s not exactly ideal.
Being green doesn’t have to mean selling your car so you can bike everywhere. (Though, if that’s for you, then go nuts and rock out.) Being green doesn’t mean feeling guilty for everything you do purchase, because an extra ounce of CO2 was produced. Being green doesn’t mean you have to stop using toilet paper and start a giant compost bin. You can help just by doing something that already interests you.
So, pay yourself on the back, I say. Your choice to cut back on things, to buy less, is helping improve the world we live in. You don’t have to be an environmentalist to see the benefit in that. You improve your life through simplicity, and the world through reducing pollution. You’re a green minimalist. A greenimalist.
