Are you thinking about going green?

Question

Hybrid cars, solar panels, etc.? Why?

Answer 1

naw. only the sheeple follow the blind.

Answer 2

yes, b/c I would like to live in a comfortably and temperant environment.

Answer 3

I am planning on building a twenty room mansion just like Al Gore's.  I will then paint it green!  He has two other homes but one is enough for me.

Answer 4

Hi GL, I believe this is something we should not only be thinking of but actively doing.

I embraced  the whole idea of environmental living  a few years ago and am still investigating ways to reduce my carbon footprint and that of my families even further.

We compost anything we can, we have a water barrel which stores rain water this is used for our vegetable plot ( organic of course). We recently installed a wind turbine to help generate electricity, this coupled with our solar panels provides us with the electricity we need.

Our house is heated using  a Geo-Thermal Heating System.

As we grow our own fruit and veg we have very little need for the shops,esp. supermarkets.

We buy all our toiletries, flour, eggs and butter once a month from an organic green shop.

What annoys me most  Gl is the Lip service payed to the whole area by our Government.( I am Irish)

We have elected Green Party members in our present Government. Unfortunately this has had no effect on their policy for the Environment. Anything they have introduced has only been a revenue gathering service.

For example, plastic grocery bags cost 23 cents.

We have to pay a environmental tax on all electrical goods this on top of VAT at 21%.

We are now obliged by law to recycle all our rubbish, fair enough. Our Council charges each household for the bags they need to sort their rubbish and guess what , these bags are PLASTIC. What a JOKE.

We also have to pay 385 euro each year for our refuse to be collected and 5 euro each time we put it out for collection, as I said a great way of making money.

I wrote recently to our Minister for the Environment( Green Party Member) and asked him what he intended to do about the companies who produce all this rubbish in the first place, G L I am talking about the amount of packaging on food. CRAZY!!!!!!

I also asked him if he intended to take VAT of such items as Solar Panels, Wind Turbines, Insulating Material etc.

Guess what??? No reply.

I will finish now as I could keep going for ever.

Before I go , one more thing.  It is my belief that until our Governments take the whole concept of Environmental Living,

and Global warming seriously, nothing will change,except  the lip service payed to such worthy issues, It will become more flowery.

Good luck my friend.

Cathorio.

Answer 5

Choppins

Let me start off by saying we (my family and I) live completely, 100% “off of the grid and are completely self sufficient”

The house is built utilizing natures natural elements, in the shape of an octagon with 8ft wide arch doors on every wall to catch every angle of wind (typical 4 sided homes have half the chance as one with 8 sides. A circle being the most efficient design). Woodburning stoves, solar chimney, solar AC, solar heating, solar water heating (pool and home), solar stove, solar power, wind power, hydrogen powered back up generator, hydrogen back up water heater, hydrogen stove, 2 hydrogen powered trucks, 1 EV (electric vehicle) and satellite internet.

We also built many green small cabins on the ranch that we offer to family, friends and our on-site off-grid workshop guests, including one straw bale, one papercrete, earth bag and adobe, one cob and cordwood, one underground and rammed earth, one log and post and beam and one rock. Each one actually started as a test for what the main house would be and were later finished and turned into guest cabins. I later wrote a guide on how to build with alternative materials using alternative methods for next to nothing.

We raise meat and milk goats, chickens for meat and eggs, ducks for meat and eggs, trap havilina (wild boar pig), rabbit, quail. brew our own beer from home grown products, preserve our fruits, vegetables, etc. smoke and jerky the meat, make our own soap, cheese.

There are no utility lines, no water lines, no roads, tv, cell service, etc. on our ranch. EVERYTHING needed is produced here. All electricity comes from 27 solar panels, 2 main wind gens and a back hydrogen generator if needed (typically we can last 9 days with all luxuries of sunless windless weather, hasn't happened yet). Water is caught and storaged from the rain. Hot water is made with solar batch water heaters with an on-demand hydrogen hot water heater as backup. Even our vehicles use alternative energy (2 hydrogen trucks, 1 EV electric vehicle converted). Because of this we have no bills, no debt and no mortgage.

Anyone interested can check it out at..

www agua-luna com

Hope this helped, feel free to contact me personally if you have any questions if you’d like assistance in making your first self sufficient steps, I’m willing to walk you step by step threw the process. I’ve written several how-to DIY guides available at  www agua-luna com on the subject. I also offer online and on-site workshops, seminars and internships to help others help the environment.

Dan Martin

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Answer 6

Whatever each of us can will add up to make a big difference.

Going green can be as small as bringing your own bag to as big as solar panels.

Answer 7

yes because it will do good to the environment

and i dont want to die early!

Answer 8

Agua-Luna rocks!!!

I wish more would go green, especially in CA, the most wasteful place on earth!  I just learned about Rammed Earth and LOVE IT!  Another of my favs is Monolithic domes.  I do take my own canvas bag shopping wherever I go to shop.  I am also an avid recycler, and normal for us is ONE brown grocery bag of garbage  - week for two adults and two kitties.

Answer 9

That is a question which all of us around the world will soon be asking.

Recycling and other "green" technologies are all related in one way or another to saving energy and raw materials. For example, recycling aluminum cans saves the energy used in producing aluminum from the aluminum ore bauxite (which uses a huge amount of electricity).

I added a 5.9 KW solar PV system to my home last year. It produces about 90% of our total electrical use. While we are still tied to the grid, we are helping our utility by becoming an energy producer rather than just a pure consumer.

This model will become the norm rather than the extreme in the next few years. I and most other oil geologists believe that we are running out of cheap oil and the world will increasingly see "green" as a matter of economic survival.

New energy saving technologies are being developed every day in response to the coming energy crisis. Compact fluorescent and LED light bulbs come to mind.

Some other "green" suggestions include:

Turning off lights.

Turning your heat down and air conditioning up.

Using water more efficiently.

Using transportation more efficiently.

These are not the radical suggestions that many people think of when they think about "green." Conservation and saving have long been a part of our culture. For example, many of our parents told us to "turn off the lights when we left a room." They certainly did not consider themselves to be "green" or radical. They were doing it based on economics.

For more infromation you might consider reading my downloadable PDF ebook entitled Tired of Making Your Utility Company Rich? How to Prepare for the Coming Energy Crisis. It explains the concept of peak oil from a geologists perspective and includes links to many of the best energy related sites on the internet.

Again, thanks for your question.

Sincerely,

H. Court Young

Geologist, author & publisher

Promoting awareness through the written word

http://www.hcourtyoung.com

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Answer 10

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Answer 11

When I saw the hybrid Tahoe ad on the Superbowl, I almost drooled. I would LOVE a hybrid car!

I want solar panels bad, but hub won't let us because there isn't enough out there to make it cheap enough to be worth it.

I have replaced burned out light bulbs with fluorescents, now that they have made them to work right and cheap enough. I try to use post-consumer products whenever possible.

We all introduced "green" technology with the ecology movement of the '70s. It isn't hard to think green in our daily lives. Now technology is finally catching up.