Think about what you really need as oppose to what you “think” you need and you’ll be surprised. The only thing I think that this doesn’t come into play is eating a well balanced healthy diet. It’s way cheaper to buy junk food. Eating healthy is a little more expensive, but definitely worth it and it’s way better for the environment. Be aware of your choices.

I did it honestly, and it said it would take 4.3 Earths for (I assume) 6.5 billion people to live like me.

I did it with ALL features set to the greenest. So if 7 people live in a green designed home of under 500sq ft, with no cars, and no electricity, and ate only locally grown food, without using any kind of fuel based transportation.

It would take almost 3 planets! So, if we were all farmers, with no electricity, and lived 7 to a household, GREEN DESIGNED, the planet couldn\’t support our population. And yet, it seems to support a population who does NOT meet that criteria on average. Since only the worst or most remote parts of the world live without any kind of power, no combustion engines, and who live with that kind of population density.

I hate when green people put up that kind of propaganda, it makes all of you look bad.

Humans are like children with a new toy when it comes to all this technology.

We\’re just now learning that it can burn us if we get too excited with it.

Calm down, and dress us like adults, with advice that is simple and MATTERS.

Instead of worrying about unplugging your cellphone charger, how about spending an hour less a day on the internet? Or not having a cell phone period? Hand wash your clothes in cold water. Bake your own bread.

Car pooling is a very potent force, economically and environmentally.

On a side note: Organic farming is not, in any way I can see, good for sustainability. It may help with environmental statis, but it\’s less efficient than other forms of farming, and thus means we will have to use more land per person to make enough food.

Clean energy would make transportation and refrigeration relatively insignificant if it is implemented, and then organic looses its only bargaining chip environmentally.

I\’m all for green and sustainability.

But organic farming had its chance to feed the world. Since agriculture began.

Just keep it in mind! And if they find organic ways of being significantly more efficient, it might be worth a moderate loss of land efficiency.

It’s a sad reality that while the ‘green industry’ gets the word out about thinking eco-consciously, and makes it a stylish and desirable way to be, it’s fueled by the same buybuybuy consumer ethic that created the problem in the first place. T

The question is: how can you make an idea popular using no resources, no money, and advocating an attitude of: don’t buy, don’t consume, reuse, reduce, get off the grid, etc? It seems like either way, you’re stuck in a self-defeating cycle.