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October 16, 2007

i messed up - blog action day

Yesterday was Blog Action day. The action is supposed to be about the environment and how we were to write or post something about being green or whatever.
I missed the date, and didn't post. Something about not being in a school or work environment means that oftentimes, I don't know the date.
Anyway, around the people who are part of my circle of influence, I'm the greenest person I know. And I have a long way to go.
We do our recycling religiously! I wish NYC recycled more stuff. It's really a limited recycling plan, considering how many people are here, and how much trash we all produce.
I try and turn of our lights in every room any time no one is there, and have tried to encourage the boys to do the same. As regular light bulbs are burning out, we've been replacing them with energy bulbs.
Unfortunately, we're renters, so we don't make any decisions based on the choice of heat and things like this.
I'd like to get energy-efficient appliances, but again, it doesn't make sense to do that right now. Can't wait to have my own house.
Our TV has an energy-saving mode, and I always have it on. It's less bright, but if you have it on all the time, you get used to it.
I wish we could drive energy-efficient vehicles, but right now, our decisions for car purchases have been based more on affordability than idealism. One day soon though. I'd love recommendations of good cars that are helpful to the environment.
All in all, the thing that bothers me the most is how people always respond to me something about being only one person, and how what they do won't matter. It all makes me so angry because then I've got tons of people saying that, and so that's a bunch of people not making a difference.
Each person just needs to do all that they can, and if they do that, it will make a huge difference.
That's my 2 cents, a day late!

Posted by glassgirl at October 16, 2007 04:51 PM

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Posted by: RQ at October 20, 2007 01:47 PM