Hippy Green

It seems with every new account I open along with the piles of junk mail I receive, there is always a lot of wasted paper. I have been meaning and trying to reduce my paper trail. I find it hard enough to shred all these documents that contain personal information about me as well as accounts to banks, credit cards, etc.

So what? Well, I have been moving to paperless with all my bank accounts, credit cards, and even insurances. I even found with USAA I save $50 every 6 months because is saves them money too! Imagine that, they pass along the savings.

Today I was going through my Google Reader and saw iJustine (so hot!) received a solid 300 page bill from AT&T for her iPhone. I was shocked! So after reading this I was l thought, wonder how bad mine WOULD have been. So I logged in and downloaded the PDF of my bill. 55 PAGES!!! Most of the bill shows data transfers, even though its UNLIMITED! WOW!

I find this unbelievable and can only imagine the cost to send out all these bill statements to their customers. I would SUGGEST and/or REQUEST people switch to paperless. Not only are you saving the planet 1 tree at a time, but hey maybe you can convince AT&T (if their WILLING) to pass their savings along to us by not having them kill so many trees and pay LARGE AMOUNTS OF MONEY ON SHIPPING!!!

Working at a business and want to go green? Start by replacing your lights, or replace them as they go out, with a new LED replacement for fluorescent lights.

EverLED TR is the first commercially available fluorescent tube replacements that utilize LED technology. This replacement allows for easily going green in the work place, but cutting down on the amount of electricity being used. LED (Light Emitting Diodes) lights use less electricity then fluorescent lighting.

So for a business, you can just order the EverLED TR and replace your current fluorescent lights with the same size/dimension light, but with a LED based light rather then fluorescent. You could take a big step and replace all the fluorescent lights, but they are about $149.00 a light.

Tonight at the NY Tech Meetup the meeting changed its agenda, instead of a couple of presentations getting 5 minutes, it was an unstructured conference. There were 20 topics that was chosen by raising hand and calling them out. After the topics were picked, you broke off into areas where the 20 groups meet to talk about the topic. One person in the audience gave the topic of Clean Tech. So I walked over to the group that was Clean Tech and talked to the people crowding around.

Clean Tech, what is that?… well after speaking to a number of the people who walked over there, it was a discussion of ideas from energy efficient computers to solar/wind farms. The ideas of going green in New York is picking up and there seems to be a growing need. I have blogged in the past about how NJ/NY/CT has large tax breaks for renewable energy, hudson going green, and taxi’s going hybrid by 2012, but I feel that as a community we need to do more!

While talking green, someone wondered in the group asked if a NY Green Meetup needs to get started. Sounds Good to me! The only problem for me, is I am moving to Arizona. Since I travel so much I might be able to attend some of the meetings if this gets started an/or telecommute to them via ichat. Anyway, I handed out my contact info and my link to a couple of people, so please let me help organize and/or post some information in the comments. Also someone asked about Green Events, greenfestphilly is an event I was contacted about and blogged about.

Lastly, if this is your first time visiting Hippy Green, please contact me if you have any cool green tech links to show off and/or news. I always enjoy guest blogging and promoting green tech events here.

I forgot to post up that I purchased a 2007 Toyota Prius, totally forgot to post it here too. No need for double post, so just a cross blog link.

So check out my blog and yes most people say you lose $2k when you buy a NEW car, but hey I got a hybrid!