We bet we can guess what your morning routine looks like: You gently click off your solar-powered alarm clock, crawl out of your hemp sheets, and shuffle across your bamboo floors to the bathroom, where you bathe in rainwater and botanicals harvested from your own garden.

Not quite? Good. Our mornings look a little different too. But if you find yourself questioning the greenness of your routine, a few changes can help lighten your impact—and maybe even assuage some of that guilt hanging over your bedhead.

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Excerpted from:

Wake Up and Smell the Planet by Grist.org, edited by Brangien Davis with Katharine Wroth, © 2007 Skipstone.