what do you do for the environment?
 

something? or nothing at all? tell me...

i try to save electricity by not turning on the lights unnecessary, i'd rather put on an extra sweater than turn the heating higher, i don't drive a car and hardly ever ask a plastic bag in shops (take my own bags with me)

it's a start i guess.

I turn off lights and keep the heater off because I don't like spending a lot on bills. I don't drive because gas is high as shit and I live in a crowded city.

I'm usually too jaded about doing little things for the environment.

i compost my veggie refuse

i have a small car that eats little gas. i need a car, living where i live.

i sell the cans to the aluminum guy for 70c a lb., except we don't drink soda anymore, so better yet, i avoid aluminum consumption.

oh we buy most of our food organic. that avoids pesticides, pestilence, and pests.

some other crap i don't remember. honest.

i am a member of greenpeace. is that enough?, we recycle, we turn off lights. we walk everywhere if it's possible, i don't litter.

I rescue whales on my days off.

I eat many types of animal on holiday, so preventing the overpopulation of species such as cow, chicken and sheep.

recycle, use public transport, turn off everything, play make out music to pandas in the hope they will reproduce more.

that's the best idea i've heard in ages.

recycle all aluminum, plastic and paper, collect those plastic grocery bags and return them to the store

i have a high tolerance for heat, so i keep the AC off until it starts reaching above the 90F mark, and try to use fans when possible

i hate driving, so often i just don't go anywhere, when i do i am analy retentive about fuel economy, so i check the tire pressure often, the air filters and keep the windows open instead running the AC

I don't know that "The Environment" was my main motivation in the following choices, but it is either a secondary factor in making that decision or a nice byproduct thereof:

Vegan diet
Bicycle used for 99% of transport year round
Recycle
Compost
Electric lawnmower (2-stroke gas engines=gross)
Use my own bag at the co-op where I get most of my food

Vegetarian because of family restrictions; vegan on my own accord.
Never EVER litter.
Recycle a vair bit.
Compostness.
...And listen to music through relatively large speakers all day. =/

recycle bottles and paper, hell, I am the green ranger, i dont need to do anything cause i fight rita.

oh yeah i forgot i walk/bike whenever i can, use my bag at the coop, all that crap.

melly-- that was hilarious.

My vasectomy also means one less resource-consumption machine with potential to reproduce in turn showing up on the earth.
Fuck a human population explosion.
Edit:
Not that the environment was even remotely the primary reason for that particular decision. Pure byproduct there.

fuckit if it's going to be composed of morons.

i'm adding my own contribution into the gene pool.

if only idiots reproduce, it's going to be like this:

i shit in a bowl and eat it for me lunch.


ahh no just messing, thats icky. i am quite envoirmental though, i wash all me clothes at 30, i seperate the plastic bottles and the cardboard ect ect.

I recycle whenever I can, my parents try to buy local produce whenever possible, I bike to work (except under certain circumstances).

Good thread! I bus, walk, and bike absolutely everywhere, and only use the car maybe once every two months.
-I bike to work and back every day.
-I NEVER use stir-sticks, it's such a waste of plastic.
-I prefer shopping at places that have biodegradable bags and that don't use styrofoam for anything
-"For Here" instead of "To Go", because "to go" needs all this unneccessary travelling packaging and throw-away materials
-Don't use AC. I have a fan in my room
-Put my computer on Sleep Mode whenever left attended for a while, and shut it off if I'm gone for more than an hour
-I recycle everything I can
-I never throw out batteries

I need to start:
Taking shorter showers
Being more annoying about the importance of the environment
to people
Using the clothes line more

Some things I do are just for economic reasons, other personal reasons. Even with this list, there's still a lot of stuff I could improve on.

turn off lights when i'm not in the room
wear long sleeves instead of turning up the heat
turn off water when i'm brushing my teeth/shaving
don't drive fast
try to recycle
practice leave no trace when i'm camping
play my acoustic guitar more than my electric
gettin my masters in environmental management
work at the national guard training center in the environmental resource division
carpool to work
member of the Nature Conservancy


Things I want to do once I own a house:
Solar heater for water
Natural Lighting
Geothermal heat
Capture and use rainwater


I think it's great to talk about this stuff so that other people can get ideas - as long as it doesn't turn into an environmental pissing match

Destroy the o-zone.
Burn gas.
Kill animals.
Make life for every living creature slightly more difficult.

We walk or use public transport. I've never had any interest in learning to drive, and in NW England public transport is very good on the whole.

We use less water in the toilet cistern by putting a thing in between the thing and the, um, thing.

we recycle where neccessary, but we try to produce as little rubbish as we can, and re-use things where possible. I tend to think that the recycling-as-panacea thing is a bit misleading, because it doesn't really encourage people to produce less waste, or re-use things. It should be a third option, especially recycling is an industry itself, with all the problems of industry. When I'm at environmental events, that kind of talk sends people into a rage, which is quite funny.

We use as little electricity etc as possible.

We try to freeze food that would otherwise go off, so as little is thrown away as possible.

We buy ethical/environmentally friwndly products wherever possible.

Probably other things too.

Recycle.
Walk whenever and wherever possible.
Vote accordingly.
Vegan.

10 facts: Global warming and your diet!

1. The average meat eater is responsible for 1.5 more tons of global warming gases per year than a vegetarian.
2. Animal farming generates more greenhouse gas than transport.
3. Changing your diet will make more difference than changing from a standard sedan to a hybrid car.
4. Animal farming is responsable for 18 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, including 37 percent of human-induced methane (23 times as warming as carbon dioxide) and 65 percent of human-related nitrous oxide (296 times as warming as carbon dioxide)
5. Methane cycles out of the air in just eight years, so that lower methane emissions quickly translate to cooling the earth.
6. 70 percent of rainforests in the amazon have been cleared for grazing. In Australia, hundreds of million of tons of greenhouse gas emissions are caused by clearing for grazing.
7. Meat and dairy production uses huge amounts of water, causes air and water pollution, uses fuel, causes soil erosion.
8. Livestock use 30 percent of the earths entire land surface.
9. 33 percent of the global arable land is used to produce feed for livestock.
10. Along with driving less, going vegetarian is probably the biggest thing you can do to lessen your impact on this planet

I'm wearing the same Ministry t-shirt that I was wearing 17 years ago.

my adidas are suede and hemp. everybody knows that COW is a renewable resource!

You're wearing adidas?

i'm friends with ted nugent.

I make sure to recycle the PETA pamphlets instead of throwing them in the trash.

I also try to convince Vegans to become Tibetan Buddhists.

i try to keep my littering down to once every day or two.

I provide Gaia with plentiful amounts of natural fertilizer.

yeah, like this:

but tan and green.

will the planet forgive me?

I no longer wear Pumas because I've heard that they are made with real bits of puma.

http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i1...s/Adidas_1.jpg

This this you?

I use paper not plastic when posible. and use cloth bags when I can too.. etc.
Im semi vegetarian/vegie (in the process of re-vegetating after my six months of eating a little meat again when moving into a diferent household..)
I thrift shop
I dont drink soda/buy from crazy commercialised companies and take out for the most part

uhh.. dunno. I think I have a fairly good attitude toward the environment..

Im not very good with saving water though.. because Im a real water babie and love my baths and showers. :(

I dont know what it's like in the US.. but if you buy vegies from the supermarket here (which I dont really like doing but where Im living dont have much choice) they have all of these ridiculous plastic bags to put them in...
I use the paper mushroom bags and tell the chekout lady what's in each of them. or not use a bag at all if its one or two bigger items.

drives me nutso that its all 'dont use plastic' and then there are rolls and rolls of godawful clear scraggly bags ready for the vegie section..

oh and riduclous 'fast' cooking alternatives that require so much excess packaging... like soups in packets, microwave meals, sauces in jars, etc etc. lazy fkn people = lots more unecessary packaging and products!

This is a good one. The majority of this board unfortunately doesn't do the same it seems.

I try to, but I always am too lazy to do stuff.

i use tires to fire up my grill to cook panda steaks.