I have 20 km to my work and there's hardly no public transportations at all where I live and it's very easy to take the car. I'm trying to plan my manner so that I can do all my business "on my way", so that I don't have to drive twice. Electrical engine heater in cold days. I've chosen to drive a middle class car with a quite small block, 4cyl engine that has a decent exhaust conversion and I really want it to release as low CO2 levels as possible...but it can be hard sometimes if you're in a hurry.
I'm sorting out and recycling garbage as far as I can / have time / have the energy and are willing to do. Even at work we are trying to recycle the dump, even if some scientific calculations finds it even more polluting to fabricate all materials back to the manufacturing chain again. It's always down to the question -who can you trust? But that's -for now- how it works for me.
I've only lights turned on in the room where I am or no lights at all. No dripping water taps. No electrical equipments on stand by mode when I'm away from my home.
It makes me mad everytime I find a big pile of paper commersial in my mailbox every once in a week. While we have commerial on TV, in our computers, at cinemas, big signs everywhere...don't they care about the trees at all?
The apartment is warmed up by burning pellets central heating...good or bad I don't know. When it comes to -30° you just want to survive.
So, my bottom line is that I really think that we can all change our human behaviours if we only wants to eventough the capitalism and our beloved passion of making profits and doing all the fancy stuff seems to be a tough one. It's much harder though to regulate what the earth nature might be doing to itself. Speices have come and been erased on this planet before.
All that we can gain is our short time here.
But these bears in the photos do not look the cuddly sort. 
