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Apr 14 '08 by chelly

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going green, how you doin?

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hey look, maltzmania made a shirt:

how do you help the earth/people?

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chelly on Apr 14 '08 at 2:54pm

there was also a blog a while back about how there's a day that everyone goes w/o electricity

that's pretty cool

if i had access to youtube, i'd post the video about recycled houses

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 2:54pm

I do a crapload of things now. really.

I'm even organizing an earth-week at my high school.

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 2:54pm

nah, that was Earth Hour, chelly. everybody turns off their lights from 8-9pm.

t4sh4 on Apr 14 '08 at 2:55pm

well, my asthma inhaler went up in price by 20 bucks as to not pollute the ozone layer.... sigh

mezo on Apr 14 '08 at 2:56pm

Seattle is so green and hippie.

We recycle everything at all times. And I have a re-useable shopping bag. Also, I don't drive. Ever. Lastly, chances for Chicago in September is 99% but that has nothing to do with being green.

chelly on Apr 14 '08 at 2:56pm

what kind of things do you do for earth week?
when i was in high school, the extent of it was picking up litter along the hiway.

t4sh4 on Apr 14 '08 at 2:57pm

ohhh chelly, can you add my sister to the list for the chicago meetup

shirtflirt on Apr 14 '08 at 2:57pm

my plan, currently, is to resuse every plastic water/juice container that is over 1 liter. i'm going to cut them in half when finished with them and use them as planters.* the side with the open end
the other half, i'm going to make flower pots out of. to grow smaller things like herbs, chives, etc

**chelly sorry i'm slacking so hard on the next interview

chelly on Apr 14 '08 at 2:58pm

t4sh4 on Apr 14 '08 at 2:55pm well, my asthma inhaler went up in price by 20 bucks as to not pollute the ozone layer.... sigh

one of the shows i was watching was saying something about the connection between how bad allergies are and how industrial the world has become.

mezo on Apr 14 '08 at 2:56pm We recycle everything at all times. And I have a re-useable shopping bag. Also, I don't drive. Ever. Lastly, chances for Chicago in September is 99% but that has nothing to do with being green.

double huzzah!

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 2:58pm

(What I personally do)

I recycle my just
I recycle other peoples junk
I replaced all my lightbulbs to cfls
I air dry my clothing instead of using the dryer
I take navy showers
I boycott bottled water
I sign petitions
I talk to others about it almost daily
I talk about it on youtube
I put stuff in my toilet tank to minimize it's water usage
I buy green as much as I can
I reuse bottles, shopping bags, coffee cups all sorts of things

chelly on Apr 14 '08 at 2:59pm

sure tasha
that's ok shirtflirt

avalanche_lily on Apr 14 '08 at 3:00pm

I take cloth/ reusable bags every week to the grocery store. I am also adamant about recycling. I hate when people throw away glass in a trash can. It drives me nuts!

shakethesheets on Apr 14 '08 at 3:00pm

I recycle at home and yell at people if they come over and put recyclable things in the trash... I got my friend who lives in a dorm to start recycling, as his school offers recycling and most of his trash was water bottles, which horrified me.

I've been trying to reuse water bottles more. I recycle plastic shopping bags at the supermarket... I don't drive. Partly because, you know, I don't have a license, but that's good for the environment too. Public transportation isn't bad. I donate old clothes a couple times a year. And I'm a huge packrat, so a lot of stuff stays in my house instead of going into landfills.

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 3:03pm

I'll be making a big blog for the Earth Week thing, it's gonna be pretty amazing. I'm already head of recycling in my school.

we'll be selling environmentally sustainable pencils, which in combinations with donations, will pay for planting trees outside the school

We will also have a Freecycle Swapfest, where people bring in anything and everything they don't want or use, and then it is all offered back up to everybody for reuse for free. What isn't taken will go to goodwill
We'll be cleaning our adopted highway
We'll have eco-announcements every morning
We've gotten a local grocery chain to donate high quality reusable canvas grocery bags to everyone in the school

chelly on Apr 14 '08 at 3:05pm

in our apartment, we only shower/bath every other day. people probably think that is gross, but we feel like a few greasy days is worth it.

there's a lot of ppl that go around digging through the trash for aluminum because they need the change from recycling.

in college, we could take our bottles to the glass blowing guild.

shirtflirt on Apr 14 '08 at 3:07pm

i shower every two days cos the environment
i make wifey heat up hot water to clean bottles instead of let the water run to warm up (she no likey)
i wanna buy this house to redo the windows
we don't have A/C
and i usually have a garden but not here, yet

avalanche_lily on Apr 14 '08 at 3:07pm

Cool! I wonder if there's a glass blowing guild around here.

I've tried doing the less shower thing. I just can't. I get mean when I'm greasy.

Maltzmania on Apr 14 '08 at 3:08pm

lol @ my photohaus skillz

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 3:08pm

thats pretty awesome! I can totally see myself doing that stuff, but I'm too particularly well integrated into the real world.

I've been actually considering going into the environmental movement for a career.

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 3:09pm

You can always take navy showers if you still wanna shower everyday. That's where you only have the water on when you are getting wet and rinsing off, turning it off for the lather part.

elwood78 on Apr 14 '08 at 3:10pm

things I do:

recycle/reuse plastic bags
pick up litter
turn the thermostat down in the winter, up in the summer
don't run the A/C in my car, try to keep air pressure nominal
flush selectively
turn the water off when soaping up hands / shaving
don't buy things I don't need
use CFLs
turn off lights/radio/tv etc when not in room
switched to Macbook from desktop PC (uses 1/5th the power)
don't buy bottled water

things I'd like to do:
own a hybrid/PHEV/electric car or walk/bike-ride
carpool more effectively
take shorter showers
air dry clothes
run off grid or at least from clean energy
switch to local/organic foods

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 3:11pm

macbook power ftw!

you know, it's pretty amazing how easily the habit of turning things off all the time can be made.

elwood78 on Apr 14 '08 at 3:11pm

oh, I also try to sometimes turn off power strips. they leech electricity

marblecargirl on Apr 14 '08 at 3:13pm

i recycle practically everything
reusable shopping bag
carpool to work
just started my own little herb garden (not that herb, shirty)
try to never use heat or AC

elwood78 on Apr 14 '08 at 3:13pm

pizazz, if you're interested in the environment, you should check out this site... I read it daily: http://www.treehugger.com/

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 3:14pm

yeah, I've been reading that daily for 4 months now!

elwood78 on Apr 14 '08 at 3:15pm

also, one tip for boiling water is only boil what you need... so like if you make yourself a cup of tea... just heat up enough water for roughly one cup. I try to do that.

chelly on Apr 14 '08 at 3:15pm

THE AMAZING HEAD! is the name of the shower head that we use. we got it from walmart for $10 and it is this tiny thing that cuts back on the water you use, ups the water pressure you feel, and has a button that turns off the flow when you are shaving or whatnot.

plus, it's called THE AMAZING HEAD!

we've installed it in every home we've lived and left it there for the next tenant.

elwood78 on Apr 14 '08 at 3:16pm

nice! glad to see the environmental movement spreading

welshalex on Apr 14 '08 at 3:16pm

I have been raised to be pretty 'green', but in all honesty, that has as much to do with saving money as saving the environment.
I HATE wasting anything, im always taking stuff out of bins because it seems like a shame to let it go to landfill.

(also, I was ill & stupid & only realised today you'd replied to my message on etsy, sorry!)

phones on Apr 14 '08 at 3:17pm

i think buying clothes from howies.co.uk and wearing until they fall apart is the extent of my green-ness :(

phones on Apr 14 '08 at 3:18pm

*wearing trainers that is

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 3:18pm

yeah, i really want a low-flow showerhead. I would go out right now and buy that one, but it's at walmart. I boycott walmart.

you can get crappy ones at home depot... hmm... maybe target has one.

elwood78 on Apr 14 '08 at 3:19pm

haha, phones.. almost all of my jeans have holes in them because I refuse to buy new clothes...

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 3:19pm

eco-themed-songzzz

There's chance but if ou dare

elwood78 on Apr 14 '08 at 3:20pm

most shower heads are relatively low flow, I think... they started mandating aerators be put on all shower heads in like the 70s. that really cut downs on water usage.

noodlezoop on Apr 14 '08 at 3:22pm

I constantly nag everyone about properly disposing of batteries, cf bulbs, old thermometers, smoke detectors, paint, and electronics. Seriously, an outing to the dump once every couple of months is not such a hassle.

My county actually has textile recycling, too, but you have to take the stuff to the dump yourself for it to be processed. Anything that's clothing and good enough to wear goes to charity, and things that aren't good enough get turned into paper or something (I forget).

elwood78 on Apr 14 '08 at 3:22pm

I think a better idea for showers is to install shut off valves... so you can turn the water off while soaping up. Either that or shower together...

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 3:24pm

and haha, I'm even wearing Infinity MPG right now!

shower together, like that one video? ha.

noodlezoop on Apr 14 '08 at 3:27pm

elwood, there is somebody somewhere sometime that actually made a showerhead like that (my parents have them in their house), but they are very old and corroded so I have no idea where they came from. It was kind of a shock to me when I went out into the world that nobody else seemed to have them.

chelly on Apr 14 '08 at 3:28pm

there's a show on bbc about a group of people trying to survive at a dump, and also use stuff at the dump to make more earth-friendly items

they did a segment on cell phones and how many thosand pounds of cell phones are tossed daily, but they can be recycled

the usps offers free cell phone recycling now

i wish all recycling pick up were free

someday, probably

phones on Apr 14 '08 at 3:30pm

yeah i do that with my jeans too

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 3:31pm

I bet it will be free soon.

but hey, am I the only one who doesn't think of going green as combating global climate change? because hey, it's happened before in human history, 3 times ( think it's 3 or 4?) and yes, it was catastrophic to some.
But to me, it's all just about dwindling recourses. We just cannot survive on consuming at the rate we are!

elwood78 on Apr 14 '08 at 3:32pm

noodlezoop, yeah, I'm not sure why that idea hasn't caught on. it could reduce water usage, for showering, by like 1/3.

one thing about recycling cell phones is that often times these phones make their way to 3rd world countries where children/adults get exposed to unsafe amount of hazardous materials. your best bet with a phone is to use it as long as possible and then donate it, and hope it gets reused. I think with AT&T now you can get a used cellphone with your plan, if you don't need a state-of-the-art one

lunchboxbrain on Apr 14 '08 at 3:32pm

i try to reuse grocery bags, my wife and i recycle as much as possible and we both have a reasonably short commute to work.

elwood78 on Apr 14 '08 at 3:40pm

pizazz, environmentalism helps fight global warming, whether directly or indirectly... by consuming less, you're using less energy and hence contributing less to CO2 being put into the atmosphere, waste in our garbage dumps and pollution in general.

chelly on Apr 14 '08 at 3:41pm

i regift.
that's recycling, right?

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 3:43pm

yeah, I'm all fr fighting Global Climate Change too, but for me at least, that shouldn't be the main point. I think alot of the 'green fatigue' going on out there has to do with people not believing in fighting Global Climate Change

Pizazz on Apr 14 '08 at 3:44pm

regift is reuse!

lemonalle on Apr 14 '08 at 3:45pm

i recycle and
use my own bags for the grocery store and
use plastic bags for mini-trash bags and
wash and reuse my plastic utensils and
hope that my work will let me telecommute some day so that i won't have to drive as much

and i never EVER litter.

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