My husband, our daughter and I live on just shy of 9 acres in central NY, on a hill best known for getting a ton and a half of snow.  We have 18 chickens, 4 beehives, and a large garden that takes a huge portion of our time during the summer.  Our goal is a root cellar full of our own potatoes, and canned vegetables that we grew to last us through most of the winter.  We heat our home through a wood stove, using renewable wood, locally harvested, and take public transportation to and from work (except the days we miss the bus)..   Food we don't raise ourselves, we strive to purchase from local farmers and meat producers.  We re-buy as much as we can, and with the exception of shoes and underwear, clothing we wear is 90% from the local Salvation Army or consignment stores. 

We're not perfect, by any means. But we try, really really hard.  And one day thinking about areas that I could improve on, it struck me that my beauty regime was full of petrochemical products that had been produced in questionable social conditions, shipped from who knows where, etc.  So I started looking into ways to stop putting my money into those products, without giving up on my appearance.