Colorado Kid

I had a dream last night that I was in a TV show called, "How Green Are You"? (Fictional.) The winner would win $1,000,000,000. The rules, no use of cars or trucks. No matter what! Amtrak took us to a remote mining town, somewhere up North. No problem, I thought. I'm green from the word go! Not so fast. First they said we had to take care of several little kids. The store was miles away, down the mountain and in town. I started to make several trip up the mountain to move the gear up the hill. then it snowed. Not just a little but a lot. The Snow got deeper with each hour that passed. Someone got out a Horse drawn sleigh to haul all the stuff up the hill. It started to Snow even more. The kids were cold and weren't happy. I put them all on Cross Country Skis and helped out moving all the gear. And then....Wow! what a dream. How far are you willing to be Green?

Hvac

You’re chartreuse, I’m dark green.
I try but travel on planes and automobiles is my downfall. What can I do? We use less energy than most in our house energy consumption. We batch our trips to town. We use clotheslines and compost and bikes and ride sharing. Self powered transport as is possible.
Carbon footprint can be measured with online calculator..Try using one, you’ll be surprised.

JoeyBike

I went 30 years without a car. It was never about "Going Green" but all about having "Rolls of Green" in my pocket. Ditching the car saved me tons of money. Purely selfish motive. I only had to work about 6 months a year, bike toured around North America for fun the rest of the time (milder months).

lairlair

Yeah there's a direct correlation between co2 emissions and economic growth. That's why states struggle to make real ecologically sound policies. To make a true impact, you'd have to explain to everyone that there will be a big recession and that it will last for years and years...

Anyway, yeah, to answer the question I rely almost exclusively on public transport and cycling, eat almost no meat and few animal product, buy lots of stuff second hand... But honestly it all feels a bit pointless when you see the big coal mine being extended near my home. So I try to find joy in all of that, and cycling is good for the soul.

JoeyBike

I'm at peace with my choices. 30 years not driving daily (I rented cars occasionally for vacations) and not having any children. So if I had 3 kids and each had 3 kids I would have added 12 "oil burners" to the equation by now, assuming they all survived to today.

No coal mines near me but I feel the same as you when I see ppl driving giant vehicles needlessly. Giant pickups with perfect tailgate poseurs especially.

I did my part and more than most I believe. Sadly I'm going to get what they deserve anyway.

jadmt

I am not green or probably even a remote shade of green. I love cycling but I love driving my 4x4 truck too. I love drinking beer but alas don't recycle cans or bottles. tried it once and then the outfits stopped taking glass and cardboard so was not worth driving to the place just to drop off a weeks worth of cans ~42 cans. easier to just either throw then out the window as I was headed to buy more beer.

cooker

Actually in recent years GDP has begun detaching itself from oil:
https://www.energypolicy.columbia.ed...cline-oil-gdp/
https://www.iea.org/news/growth-in-g...cantly-by-2028

lairlair

Interesting! The remaining question is: does this better efficiency mean less CO2 emissions, or is this compensated by overall growth? Also, it shouldn't come as a surprise because peak oil is estimated to have been reached around 2008, and the economy is now surviving on shell oil (which isn't reliable or profitable at all). So obviously, the oil industry is at a crossroad and there's more and more pressure to give it up. I'm curious to see how this all unfolds.

DonkeyShow

Is being poor considered being green or just sad?

SkinGriz

It can be both.

AndreyT

Korben Dallas : [shoves a bag into Ruby's hands] You guard this with your life, or you're gonna look like this guy here! You green?
DJ Ruby Rhod : G-green.
[cut to the President's office, where every word is being heard over the radio, transmitted galaxy-wide on Ruby's radio show]
Korben Dallas : Super green?
DJ Ruby Rhod : Super green.
President Lindberg : Is that your idea of a discreet operation?
General Munro : Don't-don't worry, sir. I know my man. He'll calm things down.

1989Pre 

As far as being green goes, I have endeavored lately to keep all of my travels local by not traveling long-distance anymore. I am car-free and rarely travel the 20 miles to the city on a bus.
I should be more diligent when it comes to ordering from Ebay. They have a distance-from-your-home criterium that you can click on and buy the closest item of a certain type. No air-conditioning for me, but I feel a little guilty about the hot baths I take every night.