Your Greenhouse Gas Output: How bad are you, what are you doing?

And can we eat it?

I used a hairdryer this morning :(

It's up to government to do more I think.

a) I don't care b) whatever the fuck I like.

As soon as the gravy train environmentalists stop flying all round the fucking world on polluting aircraft to talk about greenhouse gas emissions I'll stop leaving my telly on standby.

switch lights and appliances and stuff off rather than leaving on standby, except things like fridges and alarm clocks

if i'm cold indoors (which is rare anyway) i'll put on an extra layer of clothes before thinking about putting the heating on (this is offset by the russian though, who must have the circulation of a slug for she is *always* freezing and must have the heating turned up to 11)

our house is rented but it's double glazed. it gets warm fast and stays warm

we get a bag of organic fruit and veg every week, nearly all grown in the uk, some of it even grown in hackney, which we have to pick up rather than having them deliver it (thus saving er about another 1.5 food miles a week)

bike rather than car

recycle as much as poss, including taking the plastic to brixton bc hackney doesn't do plastic but lambeth does

compost

grow stuff in the back garden = 0 food miles

low-energy lightbulbs where poss

got a green electricity supplier

get milk delivered in glass bottles which are reused loads of times rather than buy it in plastic bottles that undergo plenty industrial stuff to be reused or tetra paks which can't be recycled. unfortunately this seems to mean we can't have organic milk - if anyone knows how we can get organic milk in glass bottles in london pls let me know

not fly within the uk or to france, get the train instead

try to buy stuff with as little packaging as poss, or paper/cardboard rather than plastic/polystyrene

take bags to the shops with me so as not to have to get new plastic ones (though the eagerness with which they're forced into your hands by checkouteers, in supermarkets and elsewhere, makes this almost contentious at times)

i should

not fly within europe at all. it's not like i fly often, but every flight makes a difference i guess. if i could afford it (time and money wise) i would do as much travel as poss over land or sea. it's more fun anyway

quit buying packet noodles in plastic packets with like three more little plastic sachets of stuff in them but i can't quite wean myself off argh

if i'm in in the evening i have too many things on at the same time - computer, stereo, a few different lights

um

i'm sure there are 89765976 more things i should be doing

it's not like any of this stuff is hard, or takes up any time, apart from the garden bits!

The only things I really do are not own a car, and turn lights out compulsively, put my heater on a timer/keep it down to 20 degrees. I don't fly at all. (Though this causes immense problems in my family.)

I should pay more attention to where my vegetables come from, but then I get to Sainsburys (we don't have a market in Streatham) and there's all Bok Choi and other nummy veggies I just can't seem to live without and I get them without checking where they come from. Bah.

it annoys me that they give us it in a plastic bag though. fortunately you can recycle plastic bags at the local Somerfield.

I long for the day when all bottles are returnable like they are in switzerland and sweden.

the lack of plastic recycling facilities is frustrating. we've started making sculptures out of Minute Maid bottles to compensate.

Drive a SULEV (Prius) for weekend errands which are combined into one long loop trip and long trips. Walk to work. Live in a well-insulated older house with double-glazed windows. Have a new efficient gas furnace. Use a time-cycle thermostat, setting the heat at 68 when we are there and 64 when we are not and when we are asleep. Switched all incandescent light bulbs to compact fluorescent and LED. Recycle everything our community allows. Buy only local produce directly from the farmers. Buy organic free-range eggs and chickens directly from the farmer. Buy locally raised grass-fed beef, lamb, and pork. Keep the refrigerator and freezer close to full. Use worm bins for composting - one solely for organic vegetable matter and newspaper, one for cat poop. Have low-water landscaping. Use low-enviromental impact cleaning products. Our electricity in this part of the country is hydropower.

What I should do:

Hang clothes to dry rather than use the dryer. Utilize gray water for the part of the landscaping that needs water. Put in a garden. Eat out less often. Move to a community that recycles more than just newspapers, magazines, and pop bottles, with usable public transportation. Get a bike and use it. Think more about the packaging of the stuff I buy and go for things with less. Tons more stuff, I'm sure.

It is quite frankly bizarre that America uses potable water for its never-ending landscaping needs...WTF, people?

How do you not use a fridge? I can't picture not having one.