Greener on a Budget

Sent, I couldn't agree more, my stupid company argues their "Green" stance from every stupid point you can think of and has started huge classes on sustainability all in an effort to justify local governments into supporting their expansion.
It's really pathetic how everyone can be so duped and play along with this silly corporate game.
What about all the wasted space in America and huge suburban developments that create so many problems for us and generate even more power sucking infrastructure? No one gave a hoot about that (well hardly anyone did) untill gas prices started going up and then everyone turned all "Green" and sustainability conscious--It really is sick....oh well hopefully some good will come out of it.
As an example Waste Management, the largest waste company in America is now advertising how they convert their lands into wetlands and green belts, maybe some good will come out of all our waste afterall. And perhaps if we can stick derricks in them to suck out the methane than maybe some good will come out of all our huge landfills.
Ok I am venting and dragging, things I always tend to do.

This is a great idea Kaytee. . .

. . .buy in bulk, even freezing the surplus, if needed.
. . .find some vacant land and work out an arrangement where you can work with others to grow basic foods. my family did that when i was a kid, growing beans, corn, onions, squash, melons, tomatoes, lettuce. . .you name it. when others pitch in that makes the workload light.
. . .use cloth bags for shopping.
. . .wear more clothes in the house in winter so the thermostat can be down. .
. . .keep your car empty of excess weight, lighter cars get better mileage. .
. . .buy from thrift stores, that's part of reduce, reuse and recycle.
. . .support green candidates for office and write letters to make your opinion known
. . .avoid imported goods whenever possible. takes lots of energy to ship things here.
. . .take showers with your significant other, you get just as clean and you save water too!
. . .make sun tea or even countertop tea instead of boiling water.
. . .plan your trips so that you are doing as much as possible on one trip instead of three and a half.

Here are some more ideas:

~Use safety razors - cheaper and less plastic to throw away
~Mineral salt deodorant sticks - don't work for everyone, but last forever and work well some people
~Reusable coffee filters - Mine was about $16, paid for itself after a year
~Give up paper towels - replace with old t-shirts, cut down raggedy bathroom towels into kitchen sized towels
~Reuse holey socks as cleaning rags - someday I'll learn how to darn socks
~Think before you print
~Use tie-dye as a way to cover up stains on clothing
~Use cloth diapers (nappies) over disposables, or compromise and only use disposables when you travel
~Compost - build your own with scrap lying around, somet solid waste districts sell composters much cheaper than on the market
~Insulate your hot water tank
~Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs) - one way to support your local farmer and keep yourself in fresh produce, split a share between several people to keep costs low
~pif.abundantforests.org/, click on 'Plant it Forward' for ideas to reuse, reduce, recycle a million different things
~Hang your laundry out to dry in the warmer months
~Reduce junk mail, www.dmaconsumers.org to get off mailing lists, and write 'do not sell my name and address' on your checks when/if you send them to charities and such
~Install low flow shower heads, and aerators on your faucets

>>Big agro and factory farms are some of the largest contributers to greenhouse emissions and water pollution. A vegetarian diet can save you money and make you MUCH greener in one fell swoop!<<

Yay, that's for sure!

"Big agro and factory farms are some of the largest contributers to greenhouse emissions and water pollution. A vegetarian diet can save you money and make you MUCH greener in one fell swoop!"

If I'm not mistaken, Big Ag controls vegetable farming just as much as they do livestock.

If a vegetarian diet won't work for you, and for some it doesn't, try a compromise and serve vegetarian meals as regularly as non-vegetarian meals. I am probably biased because of where I live, but I don't know anyone who has to have meat with every meal. I have never been able to successfully be a vegetarian, but eating meat once or twice a week seems to be optimal for my health.

My husband is a hunter, so we have wild turkey during turkey season and the occasional venison during deer hunting season. We prefer the eat the meat he provides rather than buy it at the supermarket. The meat you hunt yourself is local, organic, and healthier than the meat in the supermarkets.

We don't have buses. The poor people risk their lives walking our streets. Everything is miles apart, so they are stuck in this town with only Goodwill or Wal-Mart to shop from. I won't even walk the streets because too many drunks who can't drive.