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Outside Asylum Take a walk, smell the roses. Any topic is fine, save people bashing. |
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In Reply to: TIme for you stop whining and do something about it! Whatcha gonna do? * posted by mr grits on January 2, 2007 at 07:22:05:
Three years ago I sold a 3500 square foot, triple-garage suburban McMansion and moved to a 1600 square foot urban bungalow (without even a garage). Last summer I traded in my BMW 540i/6 on a 2001 VW Jetta TDI that I fuel with biodiesel. I now take the bus to work every day instead of driving, so my annual automobile mileage is about a quarter of what it was. Every light in my home that is not on a dimmer is a compact fluorescent. We have turned all our flower beds into vegetable gardens which we water from rain barrels. I have changed my electricity supplier from the standard nuke and gas supplier to a green energy cooperative whose generating capacity produces no GHGs whatsoever. I keep the thermostat up three degrees in summer and down three in the winter. I don't fertilize my lawn and I mow it with a reel push mower. I eat less meat, and buy local produce. I'm planning on donating half my lawn to the vegetable garden effort next year (more food, less mowing).I've also gotten involved in politics at all levels (national, provincial and municipal) to support and encourage environmental and oil depletion policy.
That's what I'm doing about it.
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Follow Ups
- I've already posted what I'm doing about it. - GliderGuider 01/2/0707:36:15 01/2/07 (3)
- Great, now that you've actually done something you can stop whining. * - mr grits 07:46:49 01/2/07 (2)
- I look on it more as outreach. - GliderGuider 07:51:56 01/2/07 (1)
- Just another Canadian Woad Show . . . nyuck, nyuck, nyuck. * - mr grits 07:55:05 01/2/07 (0)
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