Yes, I agree with you both that “global warming” isn’t the most helpful term. It’s not just warming that’s a problem – I think that’s the point about “climate change”.

Bill, I find myself taking the easy way out too often. It really *does* make a difference on a large scale if we all act (for some reason, I’m better at telling myself this about voting than about the environment.)

Andrew, I live in the UK and I think we have a laziness problem too … or possibly just a lack of education. A number of times, I’ve seen people in our block of flats put rubbish (like bits of food waste) into the recycling boxes.

Couldn’t agree more. Here is AUS we even have a seperate bin for recycling, and people are STILL too lazy to put their cans & plastic in there… It’s a joke. Everything needs to change, Australia is a prime culprit as it’s very hot over summer, I wish someone would look at housing building standards to enforce more ‘eco-friendly’ buildings…

“Global Warming” does just seem to be a buzz word now unfortuantely… Thanks for the EcoSimply recommendation.
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I am not innocent by any means since sometimes the easy way out is not the environmentally friendly way and I say “well, I’m just one person so it won’t matter” when it does (I consider myself pretty green; I drive a Honda Civic, turn off lights when I’m not using them, recycle, etc). So if I think sometimes that my impact won’t make a difference than many others must have the same rationalization for not being green. If we can all understand that what we do in fact does make a difference than on a large scale we will see a difference.

Anyway, that’s my rant for the afternoon. Thanks for the post. I think we all need this reminder once in a while.

Great point about ink cartridges. It’s things like that that I’m afraid I’m not good at thinking about … because they’re so small, it’s easy to forget that they’re bad for the environment. The new cartridges for my previous printer used to come with a special little postage-paid bag so that you could send the cartridge off for recycling, which I thought was a great idea! Sadly, the new printer doesn’t seem to have a similar scheme.

I used to be in ecology club and we would gather together and find random ways to clean up the environment. One of them was recycling ink cartridges by putting them in a box. I never knew how damaging they could be to the environment.

Thanks for this post.

P.S. I think you spelled “individual” wrong in your title. Just a heads up.
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