Going green is more about changing our attitude or frame of reference. It is not, as politicians would have you believe, about adopting fads or policies to combat global warming. Global warming may or may not be due to human activity. The argument is irrelevant. The problem is about sustainability on a local, national and international level. The earth is a finite resource. Recent news stories about food shortages and about poisonous plastic waste in the oceans bring home what going green is all about. As the new economies of the East expand and the world population grows these problems will be compounded.

So what can the common person do?

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