I am guilty on some account like 50mile commute one way. Unfortunately, this is fairly typical of southern california. I would dearly love to work near my house but it just isn't possible at the moment.

As for being green, I do quite a number of things:

Switched many of the lighting in my house to CFL (compact flourscent light uses less than quarter of electricity as regular light bulb. down side is it does have mercury. Next generation eco friendly light bulb will most likely be thing called white LEDs)

We also have a victory garden. There we use drip lines which goes to each plant and to each pot.

We also have a compost pile for making our own "fertilizer" I also agree wholeheartedly with Python regarding chemical fertilizers and pesticides. A good book to read is by Jane Goodall (the chimp lady from UK) and its called Harvest for Hope: A guide to Mindful Eating.

We are still planning of installing solar water heater. The new generation of evacuated glass tube heaters can boil water. So its plenty capable.

For portable electric items with batteries, we do not use the disposable use once battery. Some have mercuery in them. Instead we use either Li-ion or Ni-metal hydride battery. Initial cost is about 5x but when you recharge 40-50 times (actually lot more than that). The foot print it leaves on our environment is that much smaller. And we always take the wornout rechargeable batteries to a recycling center. Not to mention the effective cost of that battery is less than 1/10 of regular throwaway battery.

A thought about battery disposal: A single D-size battery will contaminate enough dirt to fill a normal size house. Contaminate it to a point its considered dangerous.

I believe in Toronto, there is an ordinace to turn off the light in the office building. This was brought about by environmental group for several reasons. one was wasteful use of electricity and the second reason was too many birds were crashing into the high rises in the evening and killing them.

Anyway, I can go on and on... Its not just you Python, many of us are angry with lack of understanding and total disregard to mother nature. I am also a member of the Union of Concerned Scientists like I don't have enough things to do... If you want to know the dirty things the multi-nationals are doing check out http://www.ucsusa.org/ there might be a UK version as well. We are not driven by politics. We are driven solely from science.

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yeah I do lots of things so I have zero time for TV. Only time my TV is on is when I rented a DVD maybe twice a year. And I'm here often but this is my down time or during a break. Have no clue about TV shows like bones, American Idol, Dancing with Stars... Those are the only ones I've heard...