Me, Myself and The Environment

I could not resist the buzz, the excessive education and the documentary about how the environment is suffering irreparably from us: humans, selfish, greedy and irresponsible.
So I decided to take some small steps:

Changed all light bulbs in the house to CFL (gotta say, the Government of Ontario has recently mailed out rebate coupons)

Bought a bus pass to commute to work now, instead of taking my car. When I used to work in downtown, it was very convenient to take public transportation. Not anymore, when I started working at the suburbs, so we’ll see how it goes, especially when winter shows up !

Bought new energy friendly thermostats to better control heating and cooling. Planning to buy an enegy star efficient heater and reduce my dependency on costly central home heating !!!

Engaged in better control of garbage disposals, that is more round trips to the recycle bin.

Total ban on aerosols in the car and at home. Too bad if my home would smell cook during Ramadhan :-)

Cut down on magazine subscriptions, no more newspapers either, and phoned few companies to stop sending me marketing junk, especially those annoying Primus Canada home phone plans (they literally come in every month, with the same message, the same offer)

In the future, I plan to make use of ethanol fuel. Though this would depend on the number of gas stations offering this in Ontario, Canada and New England, US, and depends on how my engine will react to it as I’m not fond of Prius and hybrids…

Something you want to add? BTW, I believe these measures are applicable everywhere…and I’m sure millions of people do them already.