Reply #7: cally, your final line is the key: little steps in the right direction are

[Gormy Cuss]

better than none. Eventually all of those little steps add up.

I haven't made any changes yet, but we're already pretty frugal about energy use.
The irony is that we use so little energy now that our payback time frame on solar systems is about twice the average and that's why we haven't installed it. As soon as we can justify the cost, we'll have solar panels.