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Natural Living Big StepsAfter about ten years of developing our awareness and concern we started to eatmore and more organic foods to the point where we make a conscious effort to,whenever possible, select them exclusively. We consciously make choices to selectproducts that are the most efficient or locally made. After starting to use publictransportation more frequently and saving for a hybrid car, we began to use ourcreative powers to imagine and develop alternatives to daily activities that werecentered around nature like spending more time working on projects designed tosupport a natural lifestyle, while getting involved with experts in order to plan oursun powered home. Finally, we took the giant step of building a home with strawbales. So far, achieving Natural Living, for us has meant:R Using public transit without exception other than in emergenciesR Planning for our next car to be hybrid gas/electric (we got the Toyota Prius in2004)R Replacing meat with vegetable based alternatives more and more and selectingprimarily organic or free range meats from our local organic grocerR Planting an organic vegetable garden, fertilized with organic compost generatedfrom our food and garden wasteR Composting all of our food , reducing our wasteR Allowing the landscape to naturalize, planting local wild flowers rather than grassaround the house.Now that weve taken a peek at things it is time to take a look under the covers. In thenext chapters in this section we will review in detail the key co ncepts of Natural Living .94