Ride your bike for short distance travel!
Rather situational. If bitches will keep their spandex shit on the sidewalk and off of the big boys road, fine, but whenever I see a tenspeed-bump on my highways' shoulders, I rage, because if he does something stupid, like be on my highways' shoulders, I'm the one getting dragged in for vehicular homocide.
Use public transportation as much as possible
Get felt-up by strange new people you didn't know you didn't want to meet!
Use a grocery bag for small trash bag (small trash can)
Works good for bagless vacuum dumping as well, as long as you don't fluff the bag when tying it up.
Replace all your bulbs with CFL's
Ahhhh, mercury. Sweetest of the transition metals.
Did the greenfags completely forget about that part of fluorescent chemistry? Oh wait, they would have to be practical smart instead of liberal/hippie smart for that. Yes, using a heating coil as a light source is pretty caveman, but shit, one broken CFL and you're getting almost as much mercury as eating a half-can of tuna.
Take recycling seriously, know what your town accepts and SORT properly.
So your refuse will be nicely stratified when they dump everything into the same pile after pulling out the aluminum since that's the only thing that is profitable to recycle.
Now it's time for GOOD IDEA BAD IDEA
GOOD IDEA
Refuse a bag at a store when you don't NEED it (single item, big item, etc.)
BAD IDEA
Buy a couple reusable bags at Target/Walmart (only 99cents!)
My region sucks so I've been part-timing as a checkout chimp in recent months so I can afford to pay hazmat teams to clean up after broken CFLs.
Resuable bags, are, in a word: assholes.
1) They don't stretch and they're often too small in at least one critical dimension. Plastic-bags are self-snugging, fabric means either the box is 1cm too wide to go in right, or 1cm too narrow and things bounce around.
2) You're slowing me down. I've already got shit in a plastic bag by the time you come down from your hippie cloud and interject as though I were defecating on your VW Bug, "oh NO, I have this, save the bag." I swear, every time someone comes up with a fabric bag they tell me to save the plastic bag, as though that's how they keep score. It is my personal policy to strip the bag that I already started to use from the dispenser rungs, wad it up, and put it, empty, into the garbage beneath my terminal. Why? Fuck you, hippie.
3) Hippies don't wash. This includes their bags. You know that filthy bum texture that cloth gets when it is soiled slowly over time by atmospheric pollutants, sweat, dope fumes, and casual filth? It's a little stiff, a little sticky, and you don't really want to touch it.
No cloth bags. GTFO of my line.
Drive slowly and follow the speed limits, which will save you gas and other peoples lives.
Drive the speed that everyone else drives. Fuel is cheap, no matter what spoiled Americunts say when our prices flirt with pairity with UK prices. No one crashes their car into another car when they got the same speed as the other cars around them. It's shitheads going one-under on a road where citizens go four-over and cops go nine-over that cause jams, clogs, and collisions, and if you want to reduce vehicular deaths, make public serving of alcohol illegal.
If your going on vacation, turn off your computer since your not going to be using UNLESS, you torrenting or going to use VNC on it.
Just turn it off. We are entering the era of cheap portable computing, a couple hundred bucks gets you a little laptop, USB flash chips carry all the data you need, and if you seriously need a 24/7 line, just rent a server from a farm.
Throwing them away makes you a ungreen person and toxic waste gets into water and makes people act retarded.
This is an epic sentence, though for reasons beyond your intention.
The energy of recycling paper is offset by the fact you save trees.
Dammit, why do people say stupid things like this?
Man invented something a few years ago called a farm, where you breed things like chickens and cows and trees so you can eat/eat/wipe-your-ass with them later on. A quick google reports that 15% of virgin (from tree) pulp production is from old-growth. The regions that do still use old-growth are places like Canada and Russia, which is pretty much lousy with trees anyway.
When you chop down trees, you have barren land. What's the #1 best thing you can do with that land? Plant more trees. Farming works.
Meanwhile, the "energy offset" is bullshit because a growing tree is a energy-collection and oxygen production device. Farming trees collects energy from the sun and produces oxygen. Recycling paper collects no energy from the sun and shits out a lot of industrial waste in the form of bleaches and chemicals used to treat the waste paper into something that the consumer is willing to buy.
