Man made global warming is real.

[Munson]

Aside from Dio, how many of you actually make sacrifices to help the environment? I'm not talking changing light bulbs or recycling. I'm talking you carpool, take public transportation, bought a hybrid vehicle, use solar panels...etc. Real shtein, real sacrifices.

Obviously still too poor to own my own home, but when I finally get this degree done and me and my girl eventually get our own place, we're both pretty adamant that we wanna spend the money to get solar panels. I know one person who's done it and their electric bill is basically nothing. They even sell some of their power back to the electric company. How that works I have no idea.

Most I'm able to do right now is ride my bike when I wanna make a trip to the Wawa that's a mile away.

Would also like to get a hybrid vehicle some day if money permits. Have a 2001 Honda Accord now that's pretty decent on gas, but I'm still filling up every 10-14 days.

20/20 with the right eye, just colors with the left.

They said they could fix it with surgery, but they also said I'd have to be awake during it so farg that.

I don't know what the surgery would entail, but everyone I know that has gotten lasic says it's weird as farg when they're scraping your eye and shtein, but you don't really feel it.

[General_Failure]

I heard the words "awake" and something that roughly translates to "slice your eyeball the farg up so we can get in there" and stopped paying attention.

[PhillyPhreak54]

20/20 with the right eye, just colors with the left.

They said they could fix it with surgery, but they also said I'd have to be awake during it so farg that.

And this is why I will not do LASIK. I hate wearing glasses (other than Oakley sunglasses) and contacts get tiring. But farg being away for eye surgery.

So does that mean you're restricted from driving all together? My cousin had one of her eyes removed when she was a kid and she's able to drive.

[General_Failure]

I've driven, but I never got my license. Never got too comfortable with it. Maybe the boulevard isn't the best place to learn to drive, I don't know.

[PhillyPhreak54]

Haha no that road sucks completely.

[Seabiscuit36]

Aside from Dio, how many of you actually make sacrifices to help the environment? I'm not talking changing light bulbs or recycling. I'm talking you carpool, take public transportation, bought a hybrid vehicle, use solar panels...etc. Real shtein, real sacrifices.

Have a Geothermal system, hybrid hot water heater, wood stove, and I don't use fertilizers in our garden or yard.   Maintain a composting pile which helps limit our trash.  We have two rain barrels which are used for the garden.  In April and May I planted 50 trees on my property which were purchased thru the Maryland Land program, .85 cents for a tree.  We did 25 Green Ash Trees, and then found out about another program in our county which gave us 25 trees for free. (Five each ofSycamore,Persimmon, Silverberry, Winterberry, River Birch).  For the woodstove, I use trees from our lot that are already felled, mostly from the Derecho and two hurricanes over the past 3 years. 

Did some preliminary discussions with the state about some of the marsh that is on our property, and ways to extend the non tidal freshwater marsh further out into the brackish marsh wetlands.  Had some success with some grasses taking root and pushing some of the invasive phragmites out. 

Looked into Solar Panels.  Main problem is the way that the programs work.  The design they came up with would be 48 250Watt Panels 12KW system, expected to produce almost 14kWh annually. 

Astrum Solar has 3 programs, one which you buy outright, it'd be 35k after the tax credits and whatnot, but I'd get to keep the SREC credits, which will help pay off the costs at a much more accelerated rate.  The second is setting up a loan in which you come up with 7500 as a down payment, they setup a loan, and take the Srec and tax credits to pay off the loan.  Takes about 16 years to get the loan paid off that way.  The third option is nothing down, they take all of the tax credits and SREC credits.  You essentially have a 30 year contract with them using your house to make them money, and possibly offset your electric costs.  They said our bill would drop from 260 to about 140 per month this way.  Still haven't made a decision because I'd prefer to get those juicy tax credits. 

In the end, I'd say that we're pretty green.  I try my best to make the environment a better place for my son to grow up.  All the while taking advantage of the multitude of state, county, and Federal programs that are available if you just do a little research. 

[Geowhizzer]

I looked into solar - after all, I live in the "Sunshine State," but right now they're cost-prohibitive.

Installed a brand new energy-efficient A/C unit - try to keep it at 78.  I'd prefer it 75.

My property is fairly "natural," a by-product of living in a rural area.   Well-wooded (mostly pine).

Thinking about growing some winter vegetables next year.  Hard to do summer stuff, because parts of our property are prone to flooding in the monsoon season.

[ice grillin you]

this is big news.....

http://www.rtcc.org/2014/05/30/china-expects-to-launch-national-carbon-market-in-2018/

[SD]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/07/06/rolling-coal-photos-video_n_5561477.html?ncid=fcbklnkushpmg00000063

[MDS]

that cant be a real story, thats from the onion

[Diomedes]

idiot america

put these people down already

[ice grillin you]

wait they are purposely identifying themselves as "anti enviroment"....this kind of reminds me of rick santorum being anti college

[PhillyPhreak54]

I didn't know that redneck activity had a name.

I've seen these idiots doing that for years. Big diesel "dude bro" trucks that never touch an off-road surface yet they're lifted and with dual stacks.

Redneck clowns.

[SunMo]

enjoy your people, SD

[ice grillin you]

its just amazing to me how the right is never satisfied with a kind of crazy position on an issue...whether its guns or reproductive rights or religion theres always that extra notch of crazy they can get to just when you think there isnt one

in this case its not enough to wonder if global warming is man made...you then have to question the science and whether it is even happening at all....and finally now people are proud to call themselves anti enviroment

think about that for a minute......these people are trying to hurt the enviroment....wtf?