How far are you willing to go to be "green"?

I think to enact many changes to become "greener" you have to have the money to do it. For example, I couldn't add solar panels to my house, or give up my car. And taking public transportation is just not convenient right now, nor is riding a bicycle to work.

I think this is one of the very few things that the government should be doing to help us get more involved. They have the budget and the influence (if done correctly) to enact positive change. There needs to be a lot of work done in the public transportation field for the mass amount of people to start taking it.

I dunno, I just see it as quite hard these days to live greener on a budget.

Since no efforts whatsoever are being made to limit population growth, or to decrease global population, why should I do anything that does not directly provide me with a short-term advantage? Giving up a car or riding public transportation would disadvantage me, so forget that. Having an electric vehicle that I could solar charge would be an advantage, so I am for that. Solar panels might serve me well, and a private well would be nice too. I don't even recycle except for cardboard, and I only recycle the cardboard so I don't have to pay extra to have the garbage people haul it away.

I have seen the future, and there is a can of Soylent Grayish-Brown with my name on it.

In a course I took last year we had energy alternative projects. My group got the solar panel. The amount of you money you save each year by having solar panels installed is a fairly good amount, but it would take nearly 60 years (if I'm remembering correctly) for the average home to pay off the initial cost of the installation. It is a HUGE investment that almost nobody is able or willing to try after hearing about that alarming statistic. =(

I honestly don't think I could give up my own car, at least not in this stage of my life. Once I've gotten out of college and have a secure job and home, I may be willing to car-pool to work or something to cut back on personal use, but for any trips or errands that are substantially long, biking and walking would be too inconvenient. ;(

I don't particularly go out of my way to be helpful. I like to think that it is against the natural order of things for us to try to preserve the world as it currently is. The majority of all species are extinct. No matter what humans do, I sincerely believe that eventually all of us, and everything we know to exist and to yet be discovered to exist, all of it is going to become extinct as well. Nature has proven that you die off or you evolve. Humans are just another species, and what we do/create/destroy is just part of our nature.

I will just stick to the 3R Concept: Reduce, Reuse, and Recycle. It is the one thing that we can all do and it only takes a little time and thought to do it.