Environmental impact

[dawgball]

Regardless of your stance on global warming (btw, I think it's real but overblown), I feel that it is our responsibility to make as little impact as can be done. I think making small steps personally has a huge impact.

With that being said (I can only imagine the smart ass comments coming), what do you currently do differently than you did 5/10 years ago because your awareness of the environment has been raised?

 

[THE KOD]

I smell money and it smells green.

 

[DOGS THAT BARK]

When cooking -I turn off heat while flipping eggs or pancakes.
Sorry dawg--couldn't resist

On serious side--wife washes hands in plastic bowl in sink-uses it and bath water for plants --not due to global warming--just a thrifty person.

My contribution--not energy Is I feed 6 birds at home--bird feed has lots of fillers in it-corn and other grains my birds don't eat. Each day I empty their bowls in plastic bag--when full--I take outside and squirrels and other birds have feast.The outside of my house and office look like wildlife refuge -especially in winter when food scare.

Have always been pretty good on conserving energy--but again from thrifty standpoint--Have never had gas & electric for month total $200.
Thermostat set on 75 in summer and 70 in winter.

 

[Eddie Haskell]

I type on both sides of the paper when filing a frivolous lawsuit.

Eddie

 

[buddy]

any truth to the rumor that in order to conserve water republicans bathe less frequently?

 

[Chadman]

:mj07:

I type on both sides of the paper when filing a frivolous lawsuit.

Eddie

 

[Chadman]

We do some things...recycle plastics and cardboard, have scaled down to more mileage-efficient vehicles, ride bikes a lot around town instead of driving when warm enough, try to conserve water and not waste it, cut back on the use of aerosol cans as much as possible.

Nothing too huge, but I also don't dismiss the effects man has on this planet and the atmosphere, and support people who care about that when it makes sense.

 

[dawgball]

I type on both sides of the paper when filing a frivolous lawsuit.

Eddie

I had no idea you were THAT dedicated!

I can probably halt all my efforts at this time! :SIB

 

[dawgball]

On DTB's post, I think "dirty" water systems for houses are going to be a huge business in the future. I can see dirty water filling a tank that is used for toilets, irrigation systems, etc.

I think dirty water is this sense is only from sinks, tubs, and showers.

 

[Eddie Haskell]

Dawg:

According to Wayne, do you realize how many tree's I've saved by doing this little act? Thousands.

Then again, by saving all these tree's I may have inadvertently put some lumbermen out of work. If only they had organized. Quite the conundrum.

But then again, I may have saved some spotted owl. Life is certainly complicated over here on the left. On the right it would be a lot easier just to cut the trees, sell the lumber, the hell with the f***ing birds, and award attorney fees against the ambulance chaser.

Eddie

 

[dawgball]

Dawg:

According to Wayne, do you realize how many tree's I've saved by doing this little act? Thousands.

Then again, by saving all these tree's I may have inadvertently put some lumbermen out of work. If only they had organized. Quite the conundrum.

But then again, I may have saved some spotted owl. Life is certainly complicated over here on the left. On the right it would be a lot easier just to cut the trees, sell the lumber, the hell with the f***ing birds, and award attorney fees against the ambulance chaser.

Eddie

I see it clearly now, Eddie. I knew you were always in it for the people!

 

[SixFive]

We recycle, and they pick it up curbside once a week (but I did that 5-10 years ago too).

temp set at 65 during the winter. Kids and I freeze, but that's how momma wants it :shrug: That has to be saving money.

all lights get turned off when not in use.

stove/oven hardly used in my house (not to conserve energy, but I'm sure it does) :shrug:

 

[Kanuck]

I conserve water as much as I can, I only drink beer.

But seriously, I have changed many light bulbs to energy efficient ones, recycle properly (blue box, green box)
shut off lights when leaving room and turned down thermostat in winter.

Al Gore made me think quite a bit about the environment in his movie.

 

[Morris]

temp set at 65 during the winter. Kids and I freeze, but that's how momma wants it :shrug: That has to be saving money
:shrug:

Wish I could do that here. Have it set on 71 and she sits here with a sweat shirt and a blanket when watching TV. :shrug:

 

[hedgehog]

absolutely nothing, global warming is a bs liberal scare tactic, there is no truth to any of it at all.

 

[hedgehog]

I conserve water as much as I can, I only drink beer.

But seriously, I have changed many light bulbs to energy efficient ones, recycle properly (blue box, green box)
shut off lights when leaving room and turned down thermostat in winter.

Al Gore made me think quite a bit about the environment in his movie.

His FAKE DOCUMENTARY was just to make everyone scared, no truth at all to any of it. I got some ocean front property in Arizona if you believe the liberal green idiots of the world.

 

[3 Seconds]

Here in Maine you get forced to recycle w/ bottle deposits on all your purchases. As much as $1 for glass milk bottles.

But I think that is a good thing...

We recycle all glass, plastic, cardboard & paper...Maine makes that easy by collecting all together no sorting once per week.

Wife & I used our own bags for groceries instead of paper or plastic. You get 5 cents off your bill for each bag of your own you bring....not much but hey its something...

We also keep the heat set to a lower temp in the winter than we used to...

 

[dawgball]

Glass milk bottles? Do you guys still have milkmen? Outside of Bugs Bunny cartoons, I didn't know they still existed!

 

[gardenweasel]

it`s fine to do what you can on a personal level if that floats your boat...if you buy into the notion that man is the reason for global warming....if global warming really is threatening our existence.......which i`m not sold on,btw...i tend to believe that the earth`s climate variations are cyclical...

i just hope that when hillary or obama get into the whitehouse,they don`t impose restrictions on business that will further hurt the economy and put us at a distinct disadvantage........while many other major economies around the world(china/india/russia) buzz right along without a hiccup......

i said in the pol. forum,jokingly,that maybe we can set large fans along the coast so we can keep chinese smog and the residue from THEIR oil drilling off OUR coast from affecting our efforts....very funny that we can`t drill off our own coast..procure our own resources...while cuba sells china the rights to drill just a few miles farther out(and we know how responsible china has been in every aspect of the pursuit of their own cutthroat economic goals) ......knowing that we`d be much more environmentally responsible than they would....

i`d feel much more comfortable with the whole "theory" if guys like gore would practice what they preach instead of polluting their asses off and then buying "carbon offsets"(the REAL scam) as a way of circumventing their own bad behavior....

i think its just fine that people become more environmentally responsible in their own lives....

i don`t particularly like having my choice of lightbulb legislated by some career bureaucrat in washington....

 

[3 Seconds]

No milkmen.....but we have glass milk bottles. We get them from WholeFoods, but they are from a local dairy farm.

Milk taste so much better out of a glass bottle for some reason.