I'm very excited to begin the Year of Used ! It interesting to think about...I haven't owned a car for 9 years, I belong to a local carshare group, take public transportation in the winter, I haven't paid for cable TV in 4 years, I shop at consignment stores, re-use boxes and containers wherever possible, frequent the used bookstore...etc, etc....but I can do more. I was at a bookstore recently and wandered over to the travel section. With a trip planned to Paris in April, I thought hey - I need to get a travel book - perhaps Rough Guide or Lonely Planet . And then I thought no....I can wait and borrow one from a friend or the library. I don't need to buy a new one . That's purely a result of the seed planted in my brain by the Year of Used . It's like that with many things. As a kid, we never recycled anything. It all went into the trash - papers, bottles, cans. Composting is the same - now that it's a part of my life, there's no way I'm