Holding myself accountable

So I copy, paste, and summarize goings-on in the enviroworld here on this blog. I profess to be all about saving the planet. But what exactly do I do, on a daily basis?

Hmm. I recycle. I recycle even the containers I'm sure WM can't recycle. Heh. I opt not to make the waste I could potentially make. I reuse containers from food. I donate to places like Goodwill instead of throwing clothes in the trash. I have a small car (I wanted that, it wasn't the Earth's choice), that I don't drive to the store that's a few blocks away (mmm, well, I'm being self-forgiving on that one. Texas is too disgustingly humid. I'd drown). I pester my friends and family with green tidbits- only through email so no trees are harmed. I do basic things like turn off the lights in rooms and the water in sinks, use supposedly better bulbs, and I bought my first green kitchen cleaner.

But then 5 days a week I push consumption. And I do like coming up with ways to push it, don't get me wrong. It's capitalism and it will always be there and necessary in the world we live in. But that's not an excuse. I investigated just what sort of green programs my client, a grocery store-retailer-walmart wanna-be implements, and was pleasantly surprised to find multiple things, from the obvious (canvas bags) to the not-so-obvious (somehow reducing the amount of pollution from their trucks, brining in local farmers to a parking-lot style farmers market).

Maybe I'm feeling like I need to do more. But change takes baby steps, and most Americans are still crawling.