i know alot of my friends don't currently even recycle, so how far do YOU take this?




i personally think I'm addicted to it...seriously going to be a frickin' hippie soon.

8/15/2008 4:44:29 PM

8/15/2008 4:45:53 PM

i ride the cat bus

8/15/2008 4:45:58 PM

-i drive a manual that has a high mpg rating
-i recycle everything possible (i even bring stuff home to recycle if wherever i'm at doesn't have a place)
-i buy my organic veggies from a local co-op
-i'm using all recyclable grocery bags (http://www.delight.com has some cool ones)
-i'm washing all of our plastic baggies instead of throwing them out & buying new

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 4:49 PM. Reason : ]

8/15/2008 4:48:55 PM

i stand outside and spray aerosol cans

just b/c

8/15/2008 4:49:52 PM

I don't take it seriously at all... fuck the grankids

8/15/2008 4:49:53 PM

i stand outside and spray aerosol cans

just b/c

8/15/2008 4:50:53 PM

^
ha - i figured i'd get that response.

easy. target.

8/15/2008 4:50:59 PM

i ♥ hippie girls

8/15/2008 4:51:43 PM

I walk to work
clean my bags
re-use my plastic grocery bags as trash bags
by most of my produce from the farmers market
walk 80% of the time when i go out.


CONSIDER YOURSELF 1uped

8/15/2008 4:54:11 PM

i thought you moved closer to work so you could walk b/c you got a dui

8/15/2008 4:55:10 PM

niiice! i wish i could walk 80% of the time...you must live near your work or downtown or something.

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 4:55 PM. Reason : ^ ha!]

8/15/2008 4:55:14 PM

my internship involved a lot of work in pollution control systems in power plants

i think that makes up for the truck i drive, the stuff i don't recycle, and the emissions from my old ass two stroke engine on my boat

my canoe is zero emissions though

8/15/2008 4:58:02 PM

hahah i was going to do it anyway... but i certainly expedited it because of it... i hate driving in traffic.

8/15/2008 4:59:23 PM

sry. didn't pick up on that.

i really really wish that the city of raleigh would take the trash cans and modify them to be a combo trash/recycling.

i also want to start a compost.

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:02 PM. Reason : if you got rid of the boat you could get rid of the truck!]

8/15/2008 4:59:50 PM

i thought it was obvious that i was joking

sorry

8/15/2008 5:00:54 PM

seriously though...

I drive an SUV, use plastic cups and paper plates all the time so I never have to do dishes, and pretty much eat everything but vegetables. The ying to your yang.

8/15/2008 5:01:15 PM

i litter whenever possible. i throw recycling crap into the trash. i drive a gas gussling son of a bitch, and i dump my oil changes into the woods. i hope the ice caps melt more so i don't have to drive as far to get to the beach.

8/15/2008 5:01:45 PM

Quote :

"re-use my plastic grocery bags as trash bags by most of my produce from the farmers market/or directly from the farmers"

I buy a good bit of local meat
I grow a lot of my own veggies/nuts/herbs.
I walk a lot, but I also drive tons.
I generally don't use throw away stuff
I recycle all that I can.

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM. Reason : ]

8/15/2008 5:03:36 PM

^^ you're a mess

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:03 PM. Reason : ]

8/15/2008 5:03:37 PM

^^^^replace suv with truck and you have my parents.

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:04 PM. Reason : ]

8/15/2008 5:03:42 PM

arcgreek where are you getting your local meat?

i'm already using http://papaspuds.com/ where it's all local growers/co-op, but i've been getting my milk (maple view) & meat at whole foods...trying to support those local companies.


[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:11 PM. Reason : ]

8/15/2008 5:05:38 PM

mine's a pale green... I've got a small 5speed/4cyl truck, recycle when I can, set the thermostat to a Jimmy-Carter-friendly 74 in the summer, and have full intent to use my bike more

8/15/2008 5:08:02 PM

eh... if you eat pork in NC it's probably pretty locally grown

8/15/2008 5:09:08 PM

^i want to go to one of the slaughter houses and see it tho...i think i'd be less afraid of what i was eating (and would DEF eat less of it).

i need to figure out if i'm allowed to start a compost at my townhouse community. prolly not.

and i really really want to start using these:
http://www.biodegradablestore.com/cip/cip_bags.html

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:10 PM. Reason : ]

8/15/2008 5:09:13 PM

^^ ooo, oo yes, I'm doing my part

8/15/2008 5:11:27 PM

I would love to live more green.

I try to recycle and pick up trash when I see it.
If I had more money I would by organic food and go to the farmer's market
I use all my grocery bags for picking up my dog's poop.
I reuse my ziplocs.
I would LOVE LOVE LOOOOVE to grow my own food and have an herb garden and everything. I can't wait to get into that stuff, but with school and the dog and having a rental house and knowing next to nothing about growing my own stuff, I can't yet.
I wear hippie skirts
I get really pissed when people go kill animals for fun--especially endangered or exotic ones.
I want the world to get into better sources of energy. And I think "green" houses are awesome, with solar panels and everything.

I'd love to be more green. But even though I'm not that green, I really don't want it to turn into people going green because it's "cool". I'd rather people go green because they care and because it's important.
Damnit.

8/15/2008 5:12:59 PM

I wanna go panda hunting

8/15/2008 5:14:26 PM

^meh, not much of a challenge.

8/15/2008 5:16:30 PM

http://www.baucomsbest.com/ and another SC farm.

but, this is charlotte...


I've gotten eggs at the farmers market in the past, but eh

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:18 PM. Reason : FARMERS MARKET!!!]

8/15/2008 5:17:40 PM

i'd go polar bear hunting, but it's too fucking cold up there.

8/15/2008 5:18:04 PM

^^ i need to find some places around raleigh.

yeah...farmer's market does not always equal locally grown.

^^^^^ and i don't care why people do it - for social acceptance, because they want to help the environment, etc. - i just want other people to get interested in it and do it.



[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:21 PM. Reason : i don't wear hippie skirts. ]

8/15/2008 5:19:27 PM

If you are buying in season, you have a pretty good chance of it being (produce wise). Plus many will advertise their farm name. You also can go to smaller town's farmer's markets, but there rises the issue of driving.

8/15/2008 5:22:41 PM

I hope to at some point be building/designing actual green buildings (not the face "green" advertising/gov. bs fake green).

I would also like to build a home on land I have, but it would probably be a better idea to stay in the city.....who knows.

8/15/2008 5:25:14 PM

I try to be green by doing all of the above and unplugging anything in the house that is unused, using those flourecent bulbs, turning lights off when not in the room (I'm amazed at how many people do this!) and even though we don't recycle at the home I make a point to do it at work.

Something that pisses me off is they're thinking about opening an Exotic Hunting farm where they grab zebras and shit, let them loose in this fenced in area and people can hunt them. Some of the prices are 5k and up. However, this isn't hunting, this is trapping animals in a climate they shouldn't be in and shooting them dead. Not cool.

8/15/2008 5:25:54 PM

being green isn't cool.

8/15/2008 5:26:04 PM

thanks for the website - it looks like baucom's best does ship...i'll have to look around for more local.

actually i think that the NC State farmer's market is all locally grown within the 1st main building (so i take my comment back), but i know that a good number of larger farmer markets are bringing in produce from all over.

i'll stick to papa spuds - they deliver it to me, it's RIGHT out of the fields and i haven't had any issues with them.

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:28 PM. Reason : ]

8/15/2008 5:26:14 PM

My fluorescent lights are offset by my monster computer w/ 750W PSU that's on 25-8... but it's 80% efficient certified, whatever the NewEgg that means

8/15/2008 5:26:47 PM

yeah!
thanks Kiwi. i forgot that we changed out all of our lights to CFL's and i was taught as a kid to turn off whatever you weren't using.

8/15/2008 5:29:02 PM

Fairly green

I don't wash and reuse baggies - mostly because I avoid using them as often as I can.

My bf kind of followed my lead for a little bit...and then jumped on board. We compost, and recycle, and all that. I'm also a water nazi. I hang clothes outside a fair bit. I drive as little as possible, combining trips, and take more than a few cues from hypermilers.

I'm much more a fan of reducing first, and then reusing and recycling. So...lights often stay off, the AC up, I use reusable grocery bags (and looking at them...they're non-woven, and I think they're of scrap fiber!).

I don't buy bottled wated, individually packaged things, or wasteful cleaning methods (except for clorox wipes for the toilet that's my indulgence). I go very easy on the bleach - I was raised on well water/septic tank, and live on one now, so it's more for that than for the sake of being 'green'.

When I clean out my car? I don't throw the trash away. I recycle that. Kind of annoys my bf, I think.

Next step? conquering our collective brown thumb, so we aren't buying stuff grown in CA and then shipped here.

I used to never really think much about this sort of thing. Shit, my family sometimes re-uses wrapping paper. We ALWAYS reuse giftbags til they're falling apart.

So the 'green' stuff I grew up with was
- frugality from my mom
- scarcity from my dad
They have since turned 'hippie', if you will: they're moving to CO once my sister goes to college, and they're planning on solar panels and windmills - they would love to be completely off the grid, but aren't counting on it.

When you're poor, you get creative.
When you're in a third world country, you don't get wasteful and lax with the stuff you brought from America (hence re-using wrapping paper at christmas)

---
I had more I was gonna type, and then I started talking to my boss and lost my train of thought

Oh well

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:29 PM. Reason : oh yeah...planning to join a CSA]

8/15/2008 5:29:28 PM

arcgreek, you'll have to build one for me. my fav show is renovation nation...i could watch it all day!!

8/15/2008 5:29:56 PM

there are some pretty neat products here

http://www.getngreen.com/store/

8/15/2008 5:30:10 PM

The thing about florescents is the light quality is SHIT. Having a space designed for daylighting would eliminate the need for the bulbs, except for at night. Also, using less light at night promotes a more natural time schedule (which also promotes better physical/metal/hormonal health (due to sun exposure, sleep affects etc etc)).

8/15/2008 5:30:53 PM

^ i think that is one of the most interesting parts about green homes - and there is soooo much to learn about it all.

also, i hate using the bottled water - i take my nalgene bottle with me everywhere!


[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:33 PM. Reason : ]

8/15/2008 5:32:10 PM

Quote :

". Having a space designed for daylighting would eliminate the need for the bulbs, except for at night"

This is why I want to, when it comes time to settle permanently, build my own place with my bf.

I doubt we'll find anything that suits our desires. I really love the homes in the southwest that are designed to be as low-impact as possible: using natural light, heavily insulated and shaded, with living gardens to clean and recycle water. some of these gardens are actually in the home - there's that much light.

^I do that too. When I get a bottle (like last week, car rental guy offered my bf and I water... I got one, because I was thirsty right then. I've been using since then. It fits in my purse better I'm too cheap to buy a new nalgene just so it fits in my purse)

8/15/2008 5:35:06 PM

i would actually like to purchase an old home in the downtown or 5 points area (or somewhere in between) and renovate it so that it meets my green standards.

8/15/2008 5:36:46 PM

I don't use my nalgenes anymore due to plastics used in them. I do however, have many many plastic green sport gatorade bottles. Bottled water never made sense to me from an economic perspective. Seems like an all around waste.

Solar panels have been making large gains in technology lately. I've had relatives who bought them (one being in the mountians (winter is filled w/ blackouts and he just had had enough). I want to say it will become much more economical in the near future, if not already.



Ambrosia, this is a reason to get an architect for the design or renov. People think they can get away w/ generic designs, and they can, but their lives/homes would be so much better w/ one. Tract/builder homes FTL.

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:40 PM. Reason : ]

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:40 PM. Reason : they can do cheap homes, very very good cheap homes]

8/15/2008 5:37:35 PM

That is the other option

I <3<3<3<3<3<3 older homes.

I just don't know whether or not we'll settle in an area with lots of older homes, with character like that, or even a densely populated area.

What I *REALLY* want is to remodel an old missle silo out in the midwest
^Pretty sure nalgene has begun making some of the bottles BPA-free

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:39 PM. Reason : ljkdf]

8/15/2008 5:38:19 PM

yup, mine is type 2 plastic.
http://www.grist.org/advice/ask/2005/01/10/umbra-bottles2/?source=daily

8/15/2008 5:41:03 PM

ambrosia1231 i've always wanted to remodel an old store in a downtown area. those are the coolest evar!

[Edited on August 15, 2008 at 5:42 PM. Reason : ]

8/15/2008 5:42:15 PM