It aint easy being green

Has I was washing dishes last night I was pondering what it really means to "go green". Wendy and I keep away from paper plates, one less thing to buy at the store and it doesn't take that much more water to wash a regular plate or two at the end of the day with the rest of the dishes. I thought to myself that by not using paper plates we are doing the environment a favor and not adding extra to a landfill. Then I realized that since we wash all our dishes by hand, we are using a little bit more water in the process when we rinse them off. This left me wondering, am I saving landfill space but slowly draining the ocean? Eh, who knows, I got to get to work now.