One of my favorite money gurus was a library cheerleader today. In his usual thoughtful-and-pithy style, Andrew Tobias was blogging (www.andrewtobias.com) about how individuals might respond to today’s economic and environmental challenges. Here’s my favorite selection from his advice:

“So what do we do now?

The easy things to say are the things it’s always easy to say: economize wherever you can; keep paying your credit cards in full each month to avoid interest (and so your browser will be able to access this site); recognize that there can be as much happiness reading a good library book under a tree – at zero cost in cash or carbon – as in driving out to the ballgame for whatever that costs in gasoline, tickets, hot dogs, beer, crackerjacks and antacid (sorry, stadium bondholders).”