I now recycle newspapers and magazines, and I’ve changed every light bulb in my house from incandescent to fluourescent, except those on dimmers. And I drive a Toyota that gets +/- 35 MPG, combined. I typically walk to work, and I try to combine errands whenever I have to use the car. I don’t consider anything I do to be an inconvenience, really.

Hmmmmm I have done my part, for sure. I have been adfvocatiing that women “go green” by not wearing nlyon panties. They are made from oil,

We recycle and I have a high mileage, low emission car. We garden. Keep the lights and other appliances off when we don’t need them. I have planted a few trees and made contributions to several environmental causes over the years. I remember the energy crisis of the 1970’s and have kept conservation and preservation in mind since then.

Been recycling and composting for years. Also learned from my grandparents to turn off lights and not waste water.I couldn’t care less about my “carbon footprint” or whatever bogus issue the enviro-twits come up with. I do it because I don’t like wasting resources and paying more for bills than necessary.

I think the older you are the least chance of you going along with all the hype about going green. Everything that we have done is to save money, such as buying a car that gets 33 MPG. Turning the heat down in the winter and the A.C. up in the summer. Someone out there may be more informed than I, but in talking to someone that works in a recycle center I was told that the recycled products were coming in at a much faster rate than they could be sold and a lot of it ended up in the local landfill. I have no way of knowing if this is true. I do know that the recycle centers sell everything off to the people that can re-cycle the trash. It would be interesting to know if there is more recycled trash than can be used.

I recycle what bottles and cans and have a few compact fluorescent lightbulbs around the house. But I also have a backyard pond with waterfall and outdoor lighting, and a computer that runs constantly. I try something green where it doesn’t hurt, but also maintain some affordable luxury.

Most of the “green” things we have done were money saving measures. We have compact florescent bulbs everywhere we can, both drive cars with great gas mileage, and we keep the house well insulated and the thermostat colder in the winter and warmer in the summer. We do recycle, but were not fanatics about it. The upside of the recycling is that it pulls trash out of the main garbage can, and allows us more overall space (so we don’t have an overflowing main garbage can).

I guess in the final analysis, I am willing to spend a little up front to go green if there is a payoff in the long term. I am not willing to spend money I know I won’t get back – like exotic “off the grid” house schemes that cost $20,000 up front, and have a break even point that is longer than their lifespan.

Probably the most “green” thing I am pondering in the future is a plug in hybrid. The current generation of hybrids have a poor cost/benefit ratio – but a “plug in” would be a net savings (in my situation). Green purists would probably sneer at my mercenary motives – but hey, at least I’m not pondering buying an over sized SUV.

I ride my 30+ year old mopeds. At 90mpg, you can’t go wrong. Winter isn’t as bad as you would think, you just learn to layer. If I’m feeling particularly energetic, I will simply ride my (again, 30 year old) road bicycle. Benton Park to Downtown is a 15 minute moped ride, a 20 minute bike ride, or a 40 minute walk. Those are the ways I get from home to work and back.

Think outside the box here. You don’t need a car. St. Louis is actually very easy to get around in without one.

We’re pretty good about going green in my household… The majority of our electronics and appliances are Energy Star. We don’t leave our computers on all the time. As incandescent lights burn out, we’re replacing them with compact fluorescent. We have a Honda Civic Hybrid that gets 40+ mpg and a Jeep Patriot that gets the best mileage of any Jeep model (25 mpg — not great [good for a Jeep], but we need a larger car, the Civic can be too small at times). We recycle cans, plastic, cardboard and newspaper — because of that we only put regular trash out once a week instead of twice a week. We keep the thermostat set lower in the winter, higher in the summer. We’re on the path of no longer using plastic shopping bags, which is hard to do because everywhere has plastic bags… Whatever happened to paper?

well, since there is no standard or requirement in order to call yourself or your company “green” , then Yes. I recycle some stuff and turn off unused lights, so that qualifies as green. The next step is for me to make a commercial telling everyone how green I am and that they should buy products from me because of that.