Does this young man like to recycle?
Green Teens
So you think you are “green”? Compare yourself with these standards.
Three green stars is the highest rating.
Clothes
Quit buying new clothes.
Wear 70’s clothes from Salvation Army.
Go naked, even when it’s cold. ***
Food
Buy local produce. Know your famer.
Eat only raw foods. If wheat and beans break your teeth, soak overnight. Never cook.
Grow all your food. Quit school to tend your fields.***
Restrict intake to 1,500 calories. (Restrict human methane production.)
Drink dirty water.
Gadgets
Sell your I-pod. With the money, buy a lamb. Feed the lamb to a wolf. (Save an endangered species.)
Crush your cell phone.
Lights off. Use a head lamp. (Decommission a power plant. Save CO2 emissions. Save spawning salmon.)
Cleanliness
Wear clothes five times before laundering.
Comfort
Turn the thermostat down five degrees.
Keep the heat at 50 degrees.
Never heat the house.***
Travel
Call a friend to take you everywhere. (Car pooling stops oil exploration.)
Take public transportation. (Stop the paving of America. Stop the loss of critical habitat. Stop automobile-animal collisions.)
Tell your dad, “Sell the cars.”
Get your driver’s license when you are 25.
Walk everywhere.***
Do not ski.
Do not read. (Stop deforestation).
Don’t buy things or go places.
Live in a crowded city in a high-rise concrete apartment building. (Save open space. Preserve animal migration corridors.)
