How do you make your footprint lighter?

Bahh, this whole "Earth Day" is a joke really. Its all about making people like me look like I don't care because I drive 14.5 miles to work in my little beat up '89 Dodge, yet these same yo-yo's who claim to be so concerned about the "environment" drive their own SUVs on such a holy day. Care about the earth do you???? they why in the heck are you driving your SUV on "Earth Day"??? You claim to care about the electricity that WE (meaning me) use, and yet you have your MH lighting, your pumps, heaters and such going for your tanks.....

How many who are concerned about the environment have a tank on this forum? Are you not using electricity? what about your lighting to grow plants???

You know, growing up we had a different name for "climate change", it was called THE SEASONS.

Bahhhh, I don't need government telling ME what kind of light bulb I can use, or what kind of fuel I can use, or what kind of car I can drive, or when I can drive it, to where, and whatever the hell else I use it for. This is a free country for petes sake, and yet you tree hugging nut job whackos out there want to take away my freedom to make my life better. How about this, give up your freedoms first, then we'll talk. As it stands, I'm keeping my Dodge, I will keep driving 14.5 miles to work, and 14.5 miles to school, to better myself, and the economy. You keep on hugging your tree, if you want more, go plant em, I'm sure I can find a shovel somewhere.
 
tree hugging nutjob whackos? whoaaa
im not amish, i use electricity, but i recycle what i can and use the fluorescent bulbs. i dont litter, and theres other things that are slipping my mind bc im tired.
i guess that qualifies me as a tree hugger? who knew.
and lol.. seasons and the climate change are 2 different things.
but, im sick of debates for today.. and tomorrow. i feel very opinionated lately and its just tiring me out to argue over whos opinion is better.
anyway.. your opinion isnt going to change anyone elses, and neither is mine.. or anybodies for that matter.
if i did plant trees though and you came over with a shovel, id take it out of your hand and hit you in the knee with it.
 
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Easydoesit said:
tree hugging nutjob whackos? whoaaa
im not amish, i use electricity, but i recycle what i can and use the fluorescent bulbs. i dont litter, and theres other things that are slipping my mind bc im tired.
i guess that qualifies me as a tree hugger? who knew.
and lol.. seasons and the climate change are 2 different things.
but, im sick of debates for today.. and tomorrow. i feel very opinionated lately and its just tiring me out to argue over whos opinion is better.
anyway.. your opinion isnt going to change anyone elses, and neither is mine.. or anybodies for that matter.
if i did plant trees though and you came over with a shovel, id take it out of your hand and hit you in the knee with it.
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LMAO! That was a good one! :rofl::rofl::rofl:
 
I recycle everything i can, i have a compost bin,i grow my own organic vegetables in my back garden i have several fruit trees and i love it nothing beats fresh food out the garden i want chickens soon but need to get hubby to build a house for them. I think that if everyone did a little bit to balance good and bad things it would help to stop things getting worse. I mean whats wrong with eating local food rather then having it shipped half way round the world to get wrapped in plastic and then put on a supermarket shelf ?Its the little easy things that will make the biggest differences and no i dont hug trees:)
 
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I love my Prius :), but I've been driving my husband's Jeep so that he can take the Prius because he commutes an hour to work 6 days a week.

I used to ride my bike to work when I worked at a clinic which has a shower. I'd still do it if my current office had a shower.

Every once in a while, though, I stop and think "Why should I be trying to save the earth for OTHER PEOPLE'S CHILDREN?" If they don't want the world to be a pleasant place for their kids when they grow up, why should I care?
 
Common sense tells us to be wise with our resources. Try to avoid wasting things, including time, money, energy, food, etc.

I don't drive a hybrid car, they are too expensive. I do drive a Toyota Corolla which gets excellent gas mileage, I've even read better than some of the hybrids. I plan my errands so that I can get to all of them as efficiently as possible and combine several in a day when possible. I fill my tank up every other month, and have driven a whopping 6900 miles in the last 15 months, part of which was a trip from FL to TN and back again.

I only use lights when I need them, and turn them off immediately. I won't use flourescent lights, because anything that is hazardous if broken, scares the bejeepers out of me. I keep my thermostat at 82F in the summer and thankfully live in Florida so heating isn't much of an issue. I admittedly don't recycle...I am not convinced it does much good based on the information I've read.

Anyhow, I try to employ common sense and do what I think is best for my family and try to not waste things or pollute things.

I don't agree with the global warming, or environmentalists on most of their beliefs. I think a lot of it is a scam to make money & to control people. I think it's absurd to burn food while people are starving to make ethanol, and even more absurd to pay through our noses for oil when we have it in our own country. I also find it amazing that the people who are spokespeople, Al Gore, etc, are millionaires who don't seem to have any problem living in gigantic mansions that waste tons of energy and fly around in jets and drive around in limousines and then tell us WE need to do something, they look like hypocrits to me.
 
everyone thinks this global warming is man made, but if they review their history they will see it is just the nonstop nature at work here we can't stop the evoloution of the earth, it got cold then warm then cold etc, just a big cycle and then crash and burn poof new planet is formed and all over again,...:eek:
 
I support Global Warming.
 
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