1. Your Car Purrs Like a Golf Cart
You are fascinated with the concept of a hybrid vehicle, and your's looks like Tokyo Drift met up with the Jetsons somewhere on the road to a Tron sequel. I can't really argue with 50+ mpg though, even if I accidentally drive by and ask for refreshment on my way to a tee time.

2. Your Favorite Cleaning Product is Baking Soda and Water
Which is a fantastic and simple way to scrub away the grime from last month's cook-a-thon you're gracious and considerate roommate forget to clean up. It's eco-friendly fun for every—wait, never mind. Going this one alone again huh. Well at least your good manners and cleanliness are good for the environment, even if your roommate is too busy watching Rock of Love to lend a hand.

3. You've Replaced Every Light Bulb in Your Home with CFLs
Compact Fluorescent Lights and their high efficiency are a great way to cut down on energy consumption, and you've accomplished this with a vengeance. Now if only you could replace the bulbs in your vintage Lite- Brite, then I'd commend you for your Macgyver-like prowess. 

4. Your Favorite Color is Green
Everything and I mean everything relates to your love for green. Not only are you way into green energy, green living, green cooking, green cleaning and everything environmental, you've also wiped eBay clean of Kermit dolls, figures, movies, socks, toothbrushes, scooters, roller skates and snap bracelets (don't know if these still exist, but why not).

5. Your Reading This Very Blog, Right Now
I couldn't help myself.

All kidding and ballyhooing aside, waking up and realizing just how green you really are is a fabulous thing. I wish all of us could take a few minutes out of each day to pay closer attention to our habits, and find simpler ways to bring the green in all of us to the surface.

Hanging plugs for hybrids above parking spaces is but one way that tech giant Google is trying to greenify the world, one step at a time. In a recent Palm Beach Post article, Google is rolling out the green carpet so to speak in an effort to not just claim a green business badge, but to further the cause of developing renewable energy into a viable solution to the cost and environmental effects of traditional fossil fuels. In fact, Google execs told a crowded clean energy summit earlier this month that the intention was to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to invest in clean energy projects.

In the city known for it's bright lights, dense traffic and cultural wow factor, New York City is adding an attractive label to it's eco-friendly repertoire. NYC is set to become the first U.S. city to require electronics recycling, rather than adding to the already overflowing city landfills.

What the city council calls "trailblazing environmental legislation" amounts to stiff fines if companies fail to meet specific recycling standards. New Yorkers introduce 25,000 tons of wasted electronics to landfills annually, which produce a large percentage of lead, mercury and other toxic chemicals.

By 2012, manufacturers are required to take back 25 percent (weight) of old TVs, computers, etc. That percentage will increase to 65 percent by 2018, but the city won't begin refusing to accept wasted materials until July 2010, so it will be up to companies to start the charge when the legislation kicks off in 2009.

That's right, I used a word that did not previously exist in the English language, but hey, can you blame a guy for trying to break the mold? Spending countless hours researching the world of green energy has its side effects. In my constant quest to champion renewable energy and its many tentacles growing and extending throughout the economic sector, I stumbled upon a very important program in the great state of Texas.

The Cynthia & George Mitchell Foundation recently announced a $6 million funding initiative to help combat global warming and air pollution while expanding and stimulating the Texas economy. The Energy Foundation—several donating partners from San Francisco—are teaming up to implement the funding initiative, which will support further development of clean technologies and policy development to spurn growth in the renewable market.

I thoroughly applaud the Mitchell Foundation for taking a stand against climate change, as well as reinforcing what I've always believed is the key to renewable energy standards in the U.S.—technology and economic growth.

Though it's one of the most important terms in conservation, a conservation easement isn't exactly a linguistic equivalent of a freebie. I'll be the first to admit that my mind landed on the term with an audible thud, but upon visiting the Nature Conservancy Web site, I learned it is really an interesting concept.

A conservation easement essential places restriction on a piece of property, protecting certain landowner rights and selling or donating a chunk of those rights. Most often the right to develop or subside that portion of land is give up, so to speak, and that particular piece of land is then protected from future development.

What is interesting about an easement is the ability to target very specific rights that are necessary to protecting from environmental damage—water quality for example. The landowner retains certain rights, and the easement is designed to work synonymously with the landowner so that any personal needs remain uninterrupted.