THE EXTREME ECOLOGIST

HYBRID HYPE?

How much money do you really save from buying a hybrid? Does it make sense to buy a car that will clog the landfills in the next 10 years with discarded batteries from hybrid vehicles?

Why not buy an older 'used' fuel efficient car - a Honda, Toyota, or any 4 cylinder car. The cost will be lowered and there will be less batteries from hybrids filling the landfills.

EXTREME GREEN

In order to be truly green we should really depend on the bicycle. Not only is it good for the environment but it keeps us in shape as well.

Well let's see what I did so far - I junked my vehicle. I chopped the house into smaller units along with a community garden.

THE EXTREME ECOLOGIST

Grow your own

I refuse to buy food from so called organic shops. Is it really organic? Or is it a scam? I think most people are jumping on the 'organic' bandwagon.

More to come.

FROM 2,000 SQ. FT TO NOTHING

I owned a home that was 2,000 sq. feet, a pretty average home. I thought about buying a larger house, maybe 3,000 sq. ft. This was back in my delusional phase of life. The more I thought about it, the less sense it made. I was trying to qualify for a $600K + loan that I could barely qualify for. I would be living off of dog food for the next 30 + years so I did what a rationally thinking ecologist would do. I stayed put. Rented out the rest of the house, eliminated the garage and made the front and rear yard into a garden where we can be self sufficient. Even though I live in the suburbs we can supply our own food.

It feels liberating. But there is still more work to do.

THE EXTREME ECOLOGIST

I could have stored the car, but what if upon my demise someone was to restore the car and continue to pollute the environment? I thought about it in great detail. Scraping the car was my best solution. As I said in the last blog I am not wealthy by any means but it the only sane way to save the environment. I may be extreme but I mean what I say.

THE EXTREME ECOLOGIST

I've been reading Nothing wants Nothing for sometime. He made me open my eyes to the current situation in regards to the environment.

Last year I decided to sell my gas guzzling SUV or so I thought. If I simply sold my SUV someone else would be polluting the environment. So I did, well I thing it's perfectly rational behavior, maybe not to you but I did what I know is right.

I sold my SUV as scrap. Yes, I destroyed the SUV. I'm not wealthy. I would describe myself as a middle class computer programmer. I read and hear things about people going green whatever that may mean.

I drive a fuel efficient compact car when I absolutely need to. Other than that I walk or ride my bicycle.

I decided that if I was going to 'turn green' I would have to do it full bore and not look back.

I feel liberated as though something heavy was lifted from my shoulders.

Scraping my SUV was not the last thing I did.

There's more to come.

I mean what I say.

I hear stories about people who claim to be 'green' whatever that may end up meaning. I've met a man who really is green. He's sacrificed everything in his life to live a life of being green.

I feel that I should devote more time to his cause. You will be hearing more from this man in the future. He will be writing his blog to inform the world what it means to be truly green!