[jyl]

We don't buy bottled water. Expensive and wasteful. My wife insists on using a PUR filter (correction - Brita), I'm perfectly happy to drink tap water.

On the solar hot water panels - I've heard those have a better/shorter payback than solar PV panels.

My issue with solar PV is my climate (few really sunny months in Western Oregon), the steeply falling PV prices (why pay $X/watt for panels today when you can pay $0.5X in 2 years), and the need to coordinate with roof work (preferable to install PVs at same time as replacing roof, rather than having to remove the PVs to replace the roof later).


I'm also interested in instant hot water heaters, but my hot water heater is new so not going to rip it out. We'll probably finish replacing the old windows this year, to further reduce our heating bill.

Oh, more "green" - we are expanding our vegetable garden and thinking about some chickens. But those are mostly for the kids, to teach them about growing things. Gonna be some real expensive lettuce there. And some untouchable chickens.