Blog Action Day or How Being Selfish Is Good for the Environment

If every blogger wrote about the environment on the same day would it make a difference? In all honesty, probably not. Outside of raising "awareness", whatever that counts for nowadays, I cannot honestly believe that reading a few posts about changing from incandescent to CFL light bulbs will make much of a difference. Why? Because people are not altruistic, Communism taught us that. So how do you raise awareness effectively? Find what each person REALLY values and hit them squarely in that region. So what really matters? Money. If you choose to change your life and don't predicate it on clean air and a cooler planet at least do it for the bucks. Here are a few things I've done and how much money it has saved me per month.

Riding my bike to work instead of driving: $30 a month

CFLs instead of normal bulbs: $10 a month

Turning off all of my electronics at night instead of Hibernate: $20 a month

Turning the water heater up a touch: $5 a month

Really these are minimal things that I have done that have saved me around $65 a month. Want to know what I am going to do with it? I'm going to be absolutely selfish with my environmentalism and buy an Ipod Touch after six months or so. Being green never felt so good.