reduce: > make a lot of stuff homemade instead of buying processed over packaged stuff, > invest in energy rated appliances > front loader washer used less water > hand clothes inside or out instead of dryer > when litte, walked to nearby school instead of having parents drive me > timer in the shower to keep things short > stopping water to lather up means I can take my time and not worry about water > turn of tap when brushing teeth, amazing how many people don't > reuse: > sold stuff through garage sales, > given clothes to carity, > turned tin cans to pencil holders > old socks and toothbrushes become cleaning tools > buy some good quality used furniture and other things recycle: > use city's blue box program > city about to state green bin food waster program in my area > 3 composters in the back yard to feed the garden wow that list is long, and I'm sure there's other things I do as well

I have to bathrooms in my house so i use one to pee in and flush it once a day and the other i poop in.

I've: reduced my driving by doing as many errands as I can on one trip. Installed Energy Star appliances. Installed double-paned windows. Installed a screen door so that I can safely leave my front door open during the summer for cooling and thereby reduce my A/C usage. Changed over to CFL bulbs. I recycle all my paper, tin cans, glass, plastic bottles, plastic bags, and aluminum. I have: my fabric items repaired instead of discarding them. Planted a tree in my front yard. Installed low-water consumption toilets. I almost exclusively use paper products made from recycled paper. I wash only full loads in my front-loading washer. I compost all my food waste.

What have I done to reduce my environmental footprint? I haven't worn socks and shoes in days. I held my breath for five minutes. I haven't showered in weeks. I never flush the toilet. Okay, I'm obviously being incredibly sarcastic (maybe!). ;) But, seriously, folks, it takes more than just the basics. I've seen folks drive their car 20 feet just to put the garbage on the sidewalk or pick up their mail. I've seen people at the so-called warehouse retailers buy enough crap for vast armies, knowing full well that most of it will be unused for weeks, if ever, and, worse, added to the trash heap, all in the name of saving a few bucks. Workers use plastic/paper/styrofoam cups for coffee and tea, instead of buying a $1 microwaveable mug (and corporations reward that behavior by continually restocking the wasteful products). Even the lowly store coupon has become so useless (25 cents off a $5 box of 13 ounce cereal . . . are you kidding me???), that the manufacturers could probably save a fortune simply by lowering the price and stop advertising! Technology, wars, and even nature, have a greater negative impact on the environment than the world citizenry can possibly prevent, though I applaud all positive efforts, just the same, but, unfortunately, there are more people who don't give a darn, far outweighing the good guys. Personally, I do what I can, and don't expect any more from others. Curmudgeonly cynical, but earnest!

I wear one size smaller shoe than I used too. How do you like that Al Gore? LOL

Decided against reproducing. This is the single largest impact for the future that I can think of.

I cycle to work, turn off all lights and plug out sockets at night and recycle as much as is recyclable.

After witnessing a terrible fire in the foot hills of the Sequoia National Forest, the injured animale were comming down onto our property. We did all we could, and I vowed never to buy a real Christmas tree,or use paper towels/napkins, and I don't. I buy the 100% cotton linens, and carry ladies handkerchiefs.( I have lots of them !!!) +5

I recycle, use fluorescent lights, walk to the store (unless I'm planning on buying a whole lot), set AC as warm as I can bear (about 80 degrees)

I recycle and use all natural products, shampoo, lotions, toothpaste, hand sanitizer, hang my clothes to dry. I also drive once a week to shop, for whatever I need only. I turn off lights in daytime and use space heaters in the winter, not the heating system, and close and hang blankets on windows in the summer.(never airconditioning) or a box fan only.

I stick notes all around our office to remind people to turn off their pc when they are leaving for the day, turn off the light after they are done using the kitchen and bathroom, heater or the a/c when it is not needed. Here in the office, we try to consume less plastic cups, print less papers, use double side while printing, seperate our trash bins, use less energy.

Two things I do: 1. I compost everything that I possibly can. My compost heap is just outside my kitchen door. It's set up to deal with vegetable peelings, etc. 2. Each week, I weigh what I'm about to send to landfill. Usually, I send less than 1kg. My lowest ever was 160 grams.

Freinds, I have taken residence in a small cabin on a lot in an oak forest. The area was a deer glade. I create most of my things from what is available. You call it recycling. Mostly I have reduced my needs, and defined for myself what are my unneeded "wants" Our society is full of unneeded wants. Debt has become a way of life, where the debt free are called by credit agencies "dead beats". Debt once was considered immoral and even a sin in America. I am debt free. I save a portion of my income each week. Americans have come to believe millon dollor homes and and new automobiles are critical to life. Electricity is even seen as "neccary" where as not long ago it was just a luxury.I have a friend who once told of the first light bulb he ever saw.Unfortunatly he stuck his finger in the socket wondering where the oil was coming from. The quest for ever better paying jobs, and disposable relationships; everything for us is disposable, including the land and its native ecosystem. The native plants and animals are just pests, to be removed or beome road kill at the nearest paved road. Still, we condem forien nations for the desturction of thier forests. What about what is literaly in our own back yard? I use 200 gallons of water every two weeks, which is fed from a gravity cystern. I eat only when hungry and do not go out to eat. Yes, I work as a paramedic, but this only makes me know that we are temporay beings, and do not own this world. The forest is eternal we are just here for the day. Nature is not a toy or comodity to be used and thrown away. I have set aside 3/4 of my land to remain old growth forest as it was when I arrived. The spirituality and the physical make up of my line of people was molded by this dry oak forest. It is in essence part of our own being. If it is cut down and the hills covered in city, we are akin to creatures in a zoo, separated form all that made us. I do not buy new clothes, or travel just for fun. I love these woods, people ask what it would be like to go live in a national park? or live in the forest to be conected to nature. This very question shows what is wrong. Up until just a few decades ago, everyone was a product of wilderness. I'd rather remember that it is,"A gift to be simple, It is a gift to be free" It is ironic that the honored spirital leaders were all men who rejected civilization, and came to speak to the world from wilderness. Examples are John the Baptist, the old testement prophets, Jesus the Christ, Moses from Mt.Sinai, the Desert Fathers of the early church, the modern names as H. Therou, and John Muir. God says I AM what I AM' He has always come in the still wind, before the wilderness cave. Whay did John the Baptist come as a voice crying in the wilderness? What did men go out to see? A man in fine clothes? A man with a fine house? Who warned them of the need to leave the city? There is a pattern to this, and a reason I am shure. Certainly, the prophets of God, the asectics and the philosphers such as Siddartha Gotama. the Buddha came out of the forests and not dressed in the best city clothes and did not live in palaces. The Anchient Greeks knew that religon derived from wilderness. Be still and know that I am God. It is said that Abraham had his encounter with the One God under the Oak of Mamre. This Oak is still kept as a relic by the Russian Orthodox Church in Hebron. It is the true nature of man to live simply in contemplation within nature. The Asetics cry against materalism. Our religon tells us one thing and we do the opposite causing the destruction of this beautiful planet. Thoughtless consumtion is a sin.

When we built our new home after retirement we went as green as we could afford. Unfortunately GREEN is costly. We used Bamboo flooring, carpet made from corn(?) special insulation wrap called ZIP LOCK, air exchanger which conditions the air in tight built homes, used a tankless water heater which only heats the water upon use instead of heating a whole tank of water that can cool off again before use and bought all energy efficent appliances and installed energy efficent light bulbs. The energy efficent light bulbs are becoming a problem because as we get older we need more light to see well and these lights just aren't as bright. We wanted to go with Solar and Geo Thermal but it just wasn't cost effective for us... more for the younger people building a house they plan to live in for 25 years or more.

A great question. One that has been inquired into for the last 360 years by several people. I need to too phrase that the question you have asked just is a trying question to be put to rest.

We make a genuine attempt to recycle as many items as possible. Fortunately, the city in which we reside has a good recycling program to which we give all of our newspapers, magazines and junk mail; all our #1 and #2 plastics; all our metal food cans; all our cardboards; and any other scrap metals. Also used motor oil and unused gasoline; surplus paints. Additionally, next door is the city's brush recycling center, which reduces all brush to mulch which is free to residents and sold by the cubic yard to landscape contractors. Laugh if you will, but we also recycle as much of our bath/shower water as possible for watering shrubs, flowers, trees, etc. By doing this, I have been amazed at how much water was wasted just going down the drain. It takes a bit of effort on our part, but we feel we're being part of the solution rather than the problem. I challenge all lwho read this to do their part!