The Big 3 (when going green)

I love it when the complex is distilled to simplicity. I ran across this Zachary Shahan article on Planetsave a few days ago, and it shed a big light on the topics on this blog. The article actually lists 5 ingredients for The Green Life, but I'd like to focus on the first three today. Straight from the text of the article:

If you look at the top 3 contributors to global warming and climate change, they are undoubtedly transportation, electricity, and food (though, the order varies based on the assumptions and the location).
So, the top 3 things you can green, in no particular order, are:

Electric Poster

Transportation Poster

Food Poster

• your electricity supply — by going solar; using small-scale wind turbines; paying for renewable energy instead of dirty energy from your electricity company; using small hydro; or perhaps some other, obscure option that I’ve left out;
• your transportation — by bicycling, walking, using transit, traveling by train, using an electric vehicle (especially a solar-powered one), or carpooling;
• your food — while nothing relatively mainstream is greener than going vegan (or at least vegetarian), eating local, eating organic, buying food in bulk, and avoiding unnecessary packaging whenever possible are some other obvious ways to green your body’s fuel. (Even Mike Tyson has gone vegan — don’t you think you can do something along those lines?!) With perhaps 51% or more of greenhouse gas emissions coming from livestock production, this is a pretty hard one to avoid if you are serious about tackling global warming (& you know you should be).

Now, while those are the biggies in your personal life, there’s still something missing….

Read more at http://planetsave.com/2012/01/05/the-green-life/#eklmWdhtx8LW1lhM.99

So, Dear Reader, how about you? Which of those three categories interests you the most? Do you have green goals? What are they, and do they fit in one of the three categories?

May you know where you are headed before you get there!