How do you participate?

[johnc]

It is a fact. We are overconsuming our resources and degrading the environment we call Home.

What are you doing in order to stop this from transforming in a total disaster?

I decided to join a group of people that raise awareness on global environmental issues greentumble.com. I research the news and send them new topic suggestions to write about, and soon I will start writing some articles myself.

 

[Machjo]

I eat vegan, work from home (used to live close to work when I did work outside the home), and cycle as my primary means of transportation in the summer months, using the car mostly only in winter or for large purchases or traveling distance or in a rush in summer.

If public transit were more decent, I would rarely use the car, bit we have stupid bylaws preventing high density development in the city which essentially imposes the need for a car.

 

[Walter]

I burn tires in my backyard, throw out all leftovers and never recycle.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

I burn tires in my backyard, throw out all leftovers and never recycle.

Because deliberate waste and pollution is a conservative value.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

I don't litter. I recycle. I don't drive an SUV.

And I have harnessed the heat from Walter's tire fire to heat my home.

 

[Machjo]

Nothing wrong with owning am SUV when it can provide legitimate benefits. The main thing is that a healthy person is not drink it to the grocery store not even a block away but uses it when walking or cycling legitimately don't suffice.

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Nothing wrong with owning am SUV when it can provide legitimate benefits. The main thing is that a healthy person is not drink it to the grocery store not even a block away but uses it when walking or cycling legitimately don't suffice.

Walking to the grocery store is never an issue. Walking from with 10 bags of groceries usually is.

 

[petros]

What does a vehicle have to do with being "green"?

 

[Machjo]

Walking to the grocery store is never an issue. Walking from with 10 bags of groceries usually is.

True enough. In our case, the store is a little closer but we can usually fill everything in our saddlebags. But for larger families, true enough.

What does a vehicle have to do with being "green"?

Fossil fuel.

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

What does a vehicle have to do with being "green"?

It's in the vehicle you choose.

Heck, coming up I learned from pasty-pinkies and Indians that not taking more than you need was a good thing.

I guess conservatives don't believe in that anymore.

 

[Ludlow]

not much

 

[petros]

Fossil fuel.

Fossil fuel? What does that do? Is driving the biggest personal impact?

 

[DaSleeper]

White man use a lot of wood, make big bonfire, too hot, sit far away......

Indian; use just a few sticks, build small fire, sit close, keep warm!

 

[Tecumsehsbones]

Fossil fuel? What does that do? Is driving the biggest personal impact?

So, your point is that minimizing an impact that's not part of the single largest impact has no effect?

How very scientific of you.

 

[Walter]

Fossil fuel.

No such thing.