the next step

[the_siobhan]

Every resource I've ever seen about climate change gives the same basic instructions. "Turn down the AC. Get a more fuel efficient car. Buy locally."

We don't have air con. We bus and bike everywhere. We eat vegetarian most of the time, and every lightbulb in the house is compact fluorescent. We patch, repair, reuse and freecycle.

Now what? Where is the environmentalism 201?

*sigh*

I guess I could always write more letters.

What I'm listening to right this second: Knucklehead

Comments

[montieth.livejournal.com]

Where is the environmentalism 201?

Go off the Grid. Get a BioDiesel reactor. Start making your own BD (you'll need a vehicle to go collect the fuel). Then get a Lister cycle Engine (http://www.listeroid.com/) and start generating your own power and also use the system as a supplement for your heat (the radiator for the generator will work as a great heat exchanger for your furnace).

Or you could co-generate power with solar panels and battery banks. Though Solar Panels are more pricey.

[hirez.livejournal.com]

Hm. It may be worth hunting around for an old lighting plant, assuming they've not all been bagged by flat-capped duffers like this country, rather than buying a 'new' one.