Those are all great ideas! I share the air with over 22 million souls down here in sunny southern California. The bulk of the state's 37 million live in the warm regions of the state. We have the ability to impact the carbon footprint BIGTIME. Here's my personal favorites:
1. Ride your bike to work! It's flat, we have lots of bike paths, dust off the trusty bike, put a basket on front, a basket on the back and when you need 3-4 bags of groceries, hope on the ole bike. I ride mine to work almost everyday.
2. Buy a scooter if you don't want to pedal. I ride my automoto when it's dark, or I have to get somewhere faster. They are great-no motorcycle license needed! Covered! 80 miles to the gallon!
3. Business casual? Use your solar dryer religiously. Where I grew up we call that a "clothesline". You will save money, carbon and your clothes. Clothes last longer when they are not subjected to constant tossing and hot temps. I do not own a dryer. I wash 4-5 loads a week, and have for 3 years- down here everything dries in a second!
4. Lunchtime? Grow your own food. Fuel used to ship your food is the worst culprit of all. Grow your tomatoes, your lettuce, your cabbage. EVERYTHING grows here.Buy local always. There are farmers markets everywhere. Ask where everything you buy comes from and save fuel by buying local.

This will help with healthier lifestyles and lowers the packaging waste that enters our landfills.

Clayton Human, VP

Eco Tech Builders Inc.
Titusville. Fl
chuman1@cfl.rr.com

Here are a couple of tips from my experience working in a building of 2,500 employees:

Don't just replace regular lights with CFLs. Look at whether the lights really all need to be on. You may discover, after replacing all your regular lights with CFLs, that only every other one needs to be turned on. In my office, there's a switch at the entrance to each "pod" (which seats about 250 people) that flicks off half the ceiling pot lights. No one seems to mind most of the time (everyone has their own lights in their cubicle) and this saves 1 kwh per hour per pod, or about 2 megawatt hours per year per pod.

Don't publish recycling rates - publish waste rates. Our building publishes monthly reports about how many tons of paper are recycled. The fact is, most of this paper gets recycled because people are printing far too much material. And the paper isn't from recycled sources. They should be printing a report on how much we waste.

Robin from Green Energy Efficient Homes.

Your suggestion of trashing people's parking spaces and walk through a web of waste seems radical. But it makes an interesting point. Initiates don't have to be "pretty" or "upbeat and positive" nor do they have to be "scary" or "intense" to make an impact.

They just have to ENGAGE people.

Kudos.

Jonathan Flaks, M.C.C.