Earth Day Confessional: What are your green sins, and atonements?

So at this blog every day is earth day. But we loves our special events, yes we do.
So today, on the one and only official Earth Day, share with your fellow Change.org readers your sins against the biosphere -- and what you're doing to atone.
To get the ball rolling, here are some confessions:
- I eat chocolate -- not always Fair Trade. And meat.
- My refrigerator is, roughly, two decades old.
- I have yet to buy any carbon offsets for my air travel.
- I use new materials for most of my craft and art projects.
- Nature documentaries typically bore the hell out of me. (Although there are the exceptions that blow away my ennui.)
- I frequently buy foods that are neither organic, nor local.
And to atone, I am:
- Buying clean power.
- Living in New York City.
- Using fabric and string bags. (Kiosk sells one of my favorites.)
- Eschewing car ownership in favor of Zipcar.
- Planting a bee garden.
- Eating more beans and legumes.
- Questioning green truisms, such as the truism that eating local lowers your carbon footprint.







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