tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484142014229407289.post7036320787100354055..comments2023-04-25T11:03:48.522-04:00Comments on I didn't know THAT!: Truly Going GreenSouthLakesMomhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08822510653198676631noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484142014229407289.post-20411819373486290212009-11-23T19:46:53.962-05:002009-11-23T19:46:53.962-05:00I'm confident it would be me without the 2nd c...I'm confident it would be me without the 2nd car because someone in this household likes control (even more than I do). Even if he's sitting in traffic, he's at the wheel. Sigh.<br /><br />I heard a discussion today in which an economist talked about the way people respond to financial incentives. They are much more likely to change their habits to AVOID a financial penalty, than to change them in order to receive a reward (like a tax credit). The discussion was about our tax laws, but the parallel is clear.<br /><br />I think people in this country will largely have to be forced into it or over generations it will change. My son just laughs because at his middle school they have this big "recycling" agenda they teach, and then the trash from lunch is put into bags to go straight to the landfill...but maybe his kids will be further along the learning curve.<br /><br />Thanks all for your insights. I'll have to think some more about them. But no pony. So sad.<br /><br />Ha Ha -- this is funny. My word verification is SYCHO!SouthLakesMomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08822510653198676631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484142014229407289.post-14592363641986779692009-11-23T19:31:22.492-05:002009-11-23T19:31:22.492-05:00A friend of mine told me a few interesting insight...A friend of mine told me a few interesting insights about public transport, as she's done it for years, as well as driving:<br /><br />One is, that although the bus/train can add an hour or more to your time from home, it's an hour in which you can read a book or newspaper, or nap, or whatever. She preferred adding two relaxed hours onto her workday, rather than one stressed-out one negotiating traffic.<br /><br />The other was looking past the cost of fuel: that if you simply don't drive the second car, there won't be much saving. But if you *shed* the second car entirely, the savings can be huge when you consider one less car payment, one less car on the insurance, one less car to maintain and buy tyres and oil for.<br /><br />When we lived in Belfast, we had a tiny yard so I grew a lot of vegetables in pots on our windowsills and steps, and indoors. We are green-minded even without financial pressure: I have a dryer but hang my washing out whenever it's not raining (about twice a year :-P LOL) to save electricity. What surprised me in America this summer, was that a lot of people wanted to be "green", but it was more expensive or very inconvenient, to become so. Here in Ireland (rural Ireland at least), it's the reverse of that. I honestly think that if general populations will go greener, it will be because 1., it's made easy for them, and 2., there's incentive. I'd like to see that happen in the BIG countries! I do hope.Susan at Stony Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10385202649291774852noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484142014229407289.post-44411752964599835802009-11-23T18:18:06.604-05:002009-11-23T18:18:06.604-05:00#4 -- me, too.
Check the public transit monthly p...#4 -- me, too.<br /><br />Check the public transit monthly passes. They are much cheaper than paying daily rates. <br /><br />And I am thinking we will be much more green in Friday Harbor because the populace works together for that common goal.Charlene Amsdenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15417995779960967945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1484142014229407289.post-54559377111710733172009-11-23T14:24:46.182-05:002009-11-23T14:24:46.182-05:00Being a bus driver I wish more people would take p...Being a bus driver I wish more people would take public transit. But as I'm driving I always think of how long it does take to get from point A to point B and often wonder why people take TheBus. Time is money. However, people have a natural love affair with their cars and just don't want to give them up it seems to me. Even when gas is up to $3.50 a gallon the roads and highways are packed here. I've always thought that if TheBus had special lanes so we didn't have to sit in traffic may peoples time wouldn't be as expensive and attract more riders.<br /><br />I don't know what it will cost to go green. I've switched our bulbs here, some of them anyway, and yes we do recycle and put our rubbish in the correct rubbish bin but other than that not much else is done to go green. Why I ask myself? It's just the American way I think. We have never worried about that or thought about it and our society I think see's it that way. It's just a way of life. How do you teach an old dog new tricks?<br /><br />If one person in the household is into green and the others aren't and can't be convinced it's hard to maintain that green way of thinking. <br /><br />I have, well had, a Prius. I loved it. But the cost to purchase it was high. I think people need bigger incentives to go green. There's nothing better than enticing people than with the all might greenback!!<br /><br />Get the pony LOL...Susan can even tell ya what to do with the poop!!!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com