On transition to become 'greener'.

So what happens if my favourite colour is not green? You're gonna discriminate me?

I've decided to list down some of the things which I realised that I'm consciously doing to be more environmental friendly (lately). I am sorry but I'm loving 2.0 performance cars. I try not to pollute too much nor use too much fuel by voting for the best fuel-efficient power-packed engine technology with my dollar. But I'm willing to trade my carbon footprint with some of these habits:

1) At a restaurant:
- I tell them to clear all the unused plates/cutleries so that they don't have to wash it unnecessarily even though it's still clean after my meal.
- No garnishing is needed. Except for some strange stalks, I believe they're all food. I don't eat my garnishing so, don't waste. Give it to those who do.
- Don't over use tissue papers even though they're free.
- I finish everything in my glass because water is precious (something I learnt from Kenya).

2) At home:
- I don't charge my e71 every day because it's new and the battery sustains for a good couple of days even after fairly extensive talk time and accessive SMSes.
- Turn off the electricity at the powerpoint because electricity do still trickle into appliances even when not in use.
- Think twice before I buy anything. Buy something I need even though it's expensive, so that I don't have enough money to buy other stuff that I don't need.

3) At work:
- Reduce, reuse and recycle papers. And everything that falls under the 3R campaign.
- Revving everyone up to be more environmentally friendly and trying to incorporate this (however informally and whenever I can) into the company's policy.
- Organising 'Green Drinks' session so that the Green Buddies committee can be more relaxed while updating each other on the eco-projects we're currently working on.

4) With friends
- Give a dirty look to those who are 'dirtying' the place
- Joined the 'Waterfalls Survivor' group to get people to start appreciating our country's natural gems

So far, that's what I've been doing. I don't know if it's good enough for me to trade off the carbon footprint of my car (by the way, I'm not driving a GTi, in case you're wondering. (Yet :)). But I think it's hard to get everyone to care for the environment in the same way since none of us are manufactured in that way in the first place :P