Those of you who read my blog know that besides the Solar Water Heating I sell energy efficient shower heads and LED lights, devices that fit onto exisiting fixtures that requries no great effort to install. My whole business is about making going green as easy and affordable as possible! I only stock top quality products and as far as possible try to buy South African at all times. I believe that by making it easier for homeowners or business owners to install these products themselves that it means more, it becomes something a whole lot more that when you pay someone to do it.

Getting to the main point, never before in the history of our species has it been more evident thaty we are part of a living, breathing system. We live on this Earth with others - animals, people. We have to realise that there is a carrying capacity as incomprehensible that may be to most of us - we HAVE to start thinking about that.

We have to start thinking like a community - living with and not against each other. Right now it’s every man for himself and that has led us nowhere really, we fight for the best not caring too look back and see the destruction we have lift behind for the pursuit of wealth - in whatever form that may be for you.

We have to start reducing our gluttonous hunger for new, bigger, better - IT DOESN’T WORK PEOPLE - and we are fast tracking ourselves to a very miserable and expensive future, where things like water will become a scarce (and therefore expensive) commodity. I refer to something I read, can’t remember exactly but I think its called the Diamond paradox. Why are diamonds so expensive, they are nearly useless but water, something we would never be able to exist without, so cheap and treated so badly???

Once we realise that we have the power to change, all of us, we realise that we can make enormous differences as a group, as a community, as a species. We need to live more harmoniously in the system that supports us all, abuse it and we will pay the price.

So I use a shower head as an example - 1 Energy Efficient Shower costs R195, and will save the average family around 80,000 litres of water and between R2k -R 3k a year annually. Numbers that are not that great if one looks at it from a City or Provincial perspective.

But say 1000 people all make this small change - this changes things HUGELY - now we are talking 80,000,000 (million) Litres of Water and between R2 & R3 Million Rand savings a year.

The numbers are staggering and this is only 1000 people, imagine if 10,000 or 100,000 or millions of people did something this - the impact will be astronomical - OUR COLLECTIVE POWER!

So whether it be recycling, buying a shower head, turning lights off more often, ensuring your taps don’t drip, watering your garden only at night - WHATEVER! - don’t be put off by “it will make no difference” school of thought - it always makes a difference, always!

So make a change, believe that your neighbours are doing the same or spread the word if they not.

Our collective power is huge and we can do something about our environment, our living costs and our planet!
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