Do we use a manual leaf blower or lawn mower? No, we wouldn’t waste
time/money blowing leaves, *or* maintaining a “lawn”, but since there’s no
option for “does not apply”, it would seem we get that counted against us.
Ditto questions about our thermostat. We heat our entire >900 sq ft home
with one wood burning stove, we don’t NEED no stinking thermostat. Ditto
transportation on a train, bus, bicycle or airplane. In fact, we don’t
commute at all, this is a farm, we work at home. We don’t “buy” organic, we
grow it ourselves. And fer pete’s sake, how is buying organic supposed to be
such a great choice when you consider the vast amounts of fossil fuel spent
to transport that food to the cities and suburbs? Other than the computer,
we have no electrical appliances; not even a microwave. We have a compact
car and a mid size pickup that is the official farm vehicle. I’m guessing
the two vehicles are what earned us the jaw dropping score of 463. OTOH, if
I had a 4,000 sq ft house with three 16X20 foot bedroom “suites”, a 600.00+
a month electric bill, kept my yard nice and tidy with a manual mower,
bought overpriced, trucked in “organic” foods, and rode the bus, why, I’d be
considered a real Greenie.

There are NO questions about total square footage of your home, or the
percentage of insulated living area, or whether you are using a dishwasher
or washing machine daily, or what kind of “recycling” it is you’re doing;
would that be carefully separating different colors of glass and bundling
newspapers for the taxpayer funded recycling crew to collect, collecting
empty beer cans off the side of the road, or literally reusing each and
every item that comes into your possession,? No questions about how much
trash your household throws away, and rather than asking how much you pay
for electricity, what about asking how many KW your household uses a month,
or how many gallons of water? How stupid.

I don’t know what your score is, but I don’t feel guilty, I feel cheated.

I have no idea if those are bad numbers…