85% of us commute fifteen minutes or less.

We've got a Jetta diesel that gets, like, 200MPG, three Subarus and an electric bike. Four of us carpool, three walk, two cycle and two ride a big, shiny yet-incredibly-efficient bus. (And in the interest of full disclosure, we’ve got five SUVs, but we’re working on it.)

We eat organic and hormone free, we eat only local produce, we eat turkey bacon (it’s a start), and we have one vegan ex.

We’ve got compost heaps, organic gardens and a whole lot of water saved in rain barrels. We use a few hundred low-wattage, energy-saving light bulbs, a couple dozen low-flow showerheads and toilets, and we’ve converted to natural gas.

And we live in one passive solar house (but not all together, that would be weird.).

We sit on boards for PBS and the Providence Public Library, Big Brothers and the Providence Children’s Museum, Capital City Community Centers and the World Scholar Athlete Games. Trinity Repertory Company, 2nd Story Theater, Rhode Island Ballet Theater and Rhode Island Philharmonic.

We chair the Leukemia Cup Regatta Oversight Committee and serve as Treasurer of the Parents Committee at Pumpkin Patch Early Learning Center.

We volunteer and support and believe in PBS, NPR and US PIRG. Surfrider Foundation and Save the Bay. Jimmy Fund and The Poverty Institute. Leukemia Society, Ronald McDonald House and Amos House.

There are Jewish charities, Catholic charities, the Reform University Fellowship and Planned Parenthood. The Good Neighbor Energy Fund, Meeting Street School, and Narrow River Preservation Society. Dwight Webb Brain Tumor Foundation, Dutch Island Light House, Casey Farm and Beavertail Lighthouse. And of course the Rhode Island Food Bank, Rhode Island Project Aids, Keep Providence Beautiful and an orphanage in Maine.

We’re Big Brothers, we help the Little Sisters of the Poor and we send gently-used clothing to Peru.

And, we work in advertising. Go figure.