Good: My bike is my main mode of transportation, and I’m helping to organize Car Free Vancouver Day on Main!

Not-so-good: I pass out on the couch a lot. Read: The TV and lights are left on all night a lot.

Not so good thing? I don’t recycle the cardboard toilet paper rolls. :|

One good thing I do for the environment is swapping out every light bulb in my house for energy efficient LED’s from Philips. The not-so-good thing is that I usually leave all of the accent lighting on for aesthetics sake, even when I’m not at home :\

Oops forgot my good thing. I am very strict about turn off lights and heat when they’re not needed.

We bring our own grocery bags everywhere now. It took some getting used to but now we barely ever forget them. On the negative side, I could definitely have shorter showers.

Something else we do good for the environment is we have an electric blanket that we turn on (just for a little bit to warm up) if we need a quick boost of heat on cold nights, instead of turning up the heat in the whole house and leaving it on all night. The bag thing is that I’ve become so addicted to it that I sometimes use it when its not really necessary. Even still I think it still nets out positive.

On the plus side, we’ve been planting a veg garden the last 3 years – growing more and more of our own local & organic food each year. On the minus side – we could be reducing our garbage by over 50% if we could start a composting program at our townhouse complex.

Good: I walk everywhere I can.
Not So Good: I am a sucker for long hot showers.

One good thing I do for the environment is bike ride to work instead of drive and one bad thing is running the tap to wash dishes after a meal instead of just filling the sink to do so.

on the good: I take transit and plan to rollerskate home on the nice evenings!

on the bad: I run cold and like to have the heat on

Good: I limit my showers to under four minutes a day

Bad: I still buy foods with far too much packaging.

I definitely spend way too long in the shower. I love water and unfortunately lack a personal swimming pool (or I suppose fortunately, again for the environment), so that is where I get my fill.

I take transit or walk pretty much everywhere I go and since our building doesn’t have a container recycling bin (silly building), I sneakily go across the alley to the neighbours and recycle there! I don’t know if that’s a good thing to admit, but there you go.

Good: I take transit to work and bike to the grocery store

Bad: I continue to buy overly packaged foods and foods that come from half way around the world

Good: My main modes of travel are transit, bike and walking. Bad: I am flying to New York this summer.

another transit/bike ride when i can person.

Good – i am an avid recycle-er at home and choose local products/services whenever possible.
Bad – drive to work too often.

Good – I cary my own flatware and chopsticks wherever I go so that I don’t have to use disposables.
Bad – I take long showers.

Good: I use transit.
Bad: I could stand to shorten my showers!

Good: Walk to work and shop local
Not-so-good: blow dry my hair everyday

Good: I bring reusable bags to the grocery store.
Bad: I don’t worry about buying things with excessive packaging.

Good: I only use transit/bike/walk to get around
Bad: I still haven’t started composting even though I have been meaning to start for months.

Good: I use a reusable coffee mug everyday without fail (this one took some getting used to).
Bad: I don’t compost.

Good: I have composting worms.
Bad: I like to travel and end up flying more then I would like.

good } My bike is my love…
not-so-good } My Chevy is my mistress…

Good: walking or busing to work
Bad: Using too much plastic wrap when packaging up sandwiches to go.

Good:I turn off my powerbars overnight/ when I’m not using them.
Bad:In the winter I turn the heat up a lot more than necessary, instead I should bundle-up a bit more with layers inside.

Good: I turn of lights,monitors,and everything else not being used at home and at the office.
Bad: I use my car too much.

good: my bike is my vehicle.
bad: i like 2 showers a day in the summer.

Good: living in a small apartment (less energy, less space to fill up with unecessary junk)

Bad: flying back to visit family & friends in eastern Canada.

GOOD: I never use plastic bags!
BAD: I drive every day :(

Good: I commute by bike or bus.
Bad: I often get takeout sushi in styrofoam!

Good: Carpool to work
Bad: Drive a car to work

Good: Make sure all the lights are off when I leave the house.
Bad: Let the water run when I’m doing dishes.

bad: take long hot showers…

good: bike bike bike!

Bad: Shower for a ridiculously long time .
Good: At least I brush my teach in the shower?…

Good: I take short showers and keep the temperature and flow low.
Bad: I still eat meat occasionally

Good: Buy local BC grown produce
Bad: Use paper cups for coffee :(

Good: Before leaving work I go around the office and turn off all the lights and monitors.
Bad: I don’t compost.

Good:Cutting down on my consumption all together (buying less-reusing more!)
Bad:leaving the lights on sometimes when not needed

Good:Getting all-electronic bills – no paper, no transportation fuels used
Bad:not looking for recycling bins if there isn’t one when I’m out

Good: planting flowers, vegetables
Bad: I could be more conscious about my stove use – planning ahead to make a few things in it at the same time

Good:Saving glass containers and finding new uses for them instead of recycling
Bad:buying things that are not recyclable

Good: Re-using notepaper – always writing on both sides
Bad: still buying the newspaper print copy

Good: I recycle.
Bad: I should use my bike more.

Good: Use cloth bags when grocery shopping
Bad: Take long showers

Good: I recycle.
Bad: I don’t compost.

Good: Transit every day, and bike whenever I can. I haven’t driven my car in months :)

Bad: Sometimes I leave the tap running when I brush :(

Good: I turned half my tiny apartment kitchen into a garden.

Bad: I buy cheap “Made in China” clothing.

Good: turn out lights in unoccupied rooms
Bad: no compost

Good: I buy local or fair-trade goods.
Bad: I tend to leave my computer on when I’m not using it

Good: I use powerbars everywhere and turn them off when I’m not using them so my electronic devices don’t suck up energy when they don’t need to!

Bad: I create way more garbage than I need to. :(

Good: I’m a vegetarian.
Bad: I still eat a lot of dairy products.

Good: The majority of my clothes are second hand
Bad: long showers

Good: I use public transit or my bike to get most place
Not So Good: Sometimes I freak out at my wine consumption and toss a bottle or two in the trash vs. the recycling bin.

good: riding my bike
bad: driving my car when I could be biking!

I compost a tonne!
I smoke, and occasionally don’t putout the butt and deposit it in a garbage can. I’m a litter bug! It really eats me up inside. Boo!

Good: I bring a rolly cart grocery shopping, so no bags!
Bad: I leave the water running when I wash the dishes.

I never litter the packaging for my smokes, or anything for that matter! But I smoke and I guess that releases bad toxins into the air…wow, this contest just made me realize that

I don’t own a car but ride bike.
To Go Coffee Cups – I never remember to bring a mug.

Good: Remembering my go-cups and enviro-bags when I hit the grocer or the LC.

Bad: Not shutting off all the lights and power bars when I leave my place.

Good: I always try to carry cloth bags when I know I’m gonna do some shopping.
Bad: We waste a lot of paper bags at work (but I’m trying to get my boss to change that).

Good: Recycle all cans, bottles, papers, containers, exc. at home
Bad: Never seem to have my reusable cup on me when I’m out and grab a coffee.

Good: I have compost and am vegetarian
Bad: Although I try to limit myself, I do like imported goodies, especially fruit and cheese…

Good: I make sure I separate my recycling well and I take public transit nearly everyday
Bad: I work in a photo-lab which means we go through a lot of chemicals(some that get dumped down the drain) and paper pretty quickly everyday.

Good:Try to do most work during the day to save electricity.
Bad: I use the clear pastic bags at the grocery store for fruits and vegetables – I need to find a better alternative for this.

Good: i walk or cycle everywhere
Bad: a guilty pleasure of mine is to go atving with my family… and though it aids in an appreciation for the natural environment, it certainly can’t be good for the ecosystem :(

Good: I’m a happy vegetarian and have cut down on my driving
Bad: I buy pre made hummus and sprouted alfalfa in plastic containers when I could just learn how to make them instead.

the good-walking biking & transitting.
the bad – loooong showers.

Good: bringing re-usable bags to grocery stores/whenever i buy something
Bad: leaving lights on in room

good: i turn off lights and computers when not in use!
bad: i use more water than i should