Recent calls for water conservation in the home may have you all getting creative in how to
reduce your water use beyond the usual ways: turning off the faucet when brushing your teeth, placing a bucket in the shower to capture the water that falls before the hot water arrives, only running the dishwasher or washing machine when you have a full load, and so on and so forth.
Independence: The technology to
reduce how much oil we
use with our food and
water is already available to a large extent, but much of the problem with the oil footprint of our food is rapped up in other systems
beyond what technology is capable of fixing.