We all know that when the first settlers came to America they where following a dream! What most do not know is that many of those dreams where inspired by paintings of the Catskill Mountains. At the beginning of this country’s history artists where mesmerized by the beauty of these mountains and painted many pictures of them. These pictures where sent and sold all over the world and they had a huge part in creating what later became know as the American dream.

With popular advertisements, celebrity endorsements and major community programs for recycling in place it seems almost everyone is doing what they can in terms of the three R’s (reducing, reusing and recycling). People are separating their recyclable materials from their garbage, composting, unplugging unused appliances and buying and using more earth friendly forms of lighting – but there is one avenue that a lot of people aren’t yet traveling that could do wonders for the environment.