If you’re anything like Carla and me, you may feel a bit overwhelmed hearing the constant chatter about what to do / what not to do in order to live a green lifestyle. Sometimes it’s hard to differentiate the facts from the fluff. One of the reasons we started Neela was because we felt that there were some easy, common sense changes we could make to help the environment – driving less, bringing a thermos on the morning coffee run, buying produce from the local farmer’s market, and of course, using reusable bags instead of endless amounts of paper and plastic. We like to think it’ s just going back to the basics.  Check out this interesting article from last Sunday’s New York Times.