You have a hard time with all the fanatical ideas your humankind keep pushing down your throat. You know the push is on for all the world to jump in and pay attention to the environment. Your own habits and your actions toward this movement are possibly slacking. Though It seems the entire world is thinking green, you don't feel the need or desire to make life changes in your own habits.

Even though many Humans around the globe are taking charge to make a better environment, you might not feel like there is much you can really do so you tell your self," SELF, what's the point?". You can hardly help but think about it because it is plastered on the TV, Radio, News Paper Headlines and everywhere else you turn but, all in all you just don't feel you can make a difference. 

You have to admit, at least to yourself, that all the hooting and hollering is catching on and maybe you have been a bit reluctant to join the forces. But, then you keep hearing a voice in the back of your head that says you should try to do your part. The thing is, you do not want to become one of those Fanatics. It is just Not Your Style. Well I am here to tell you that you can join in the movement without becoming a dyed in the wool, true to the name, TREE HUGGING ACTIVAST. 

That's right! I am going to show you just a few simple strategies that will allow you to make some sort of contribution to the cause without sacrificing a thing. I am poorQpine and, I have ways to help HUMANS help the world in small ways that will really count.

Plant a small tree, that is one that does not grow too large, so that it will cast a shade on your a/c unit outside. All you have to do is buy a young sapling, dig a nice hole for it and drop it in the ground where it will provide shade for your air conditioning unit.

You think it sounds like too much labor? Here is a nice idea to go with it.

Purchase the tree as a gift for your wife, tell her you had a good idea on how to save 10% on your utility cost for using the AC. Statistics have proven that planting a tree to shade the AC unit will increase the efficiency by 10%.

Handcraft A Greeting Card

Okay and if you are really smart you can just get a brown paper bag, cut a 6"x10" rectangle from it. Fold the rectangle in half to make a 5"x 6" card from the paper. Now, in your "childlike" best, draw a simple tree on the front and write something cute, like, FOR YOU! Inside place a $20. bill a gift certificate or your credit card, however you feel comfortable. " Please go buy a tree to plant near the AC" should be written inside. Sign it " WITH LOVE" !

Talk about ohs and ahs! You will have her eating out of your hand. Females love that stuff, wouldn't you agree? She will think she married a true genius and YOU will know she did!

Make sure to tell the wife to get something pretty and on the smaller side. A flowering crab apple would be pretty and you will be doing something for the wildlife in your neighborhood too. How nice! This will NOT make you a FANATIC, you see? Plus you escape the labor by having the wife plant her new tree or have her get the kids to help. Be wise about it and you will have everyone else handling the chore while you can take the credit.

Trust me,

poorQpine.

• One small tree and you managed to lower the cost of operating your AC unit.
• You made the wife think you were really smart.
• You contributed to the food and shelter of locally native wildlife.
• If you purchased online you saved a trip to the nursery and saved gas.
• The tree helps reduce pollution by filtering the air.

Wow I am proud of you. See how easy it can be? You can do your part to help our environment and never leave your computer chair. Now ain't that something? Going green does not mean having to stop being a lazy, inconsiderate, thoughtless, selfish HUMAN. You can hold on tight to all those wonderful attributes and be sly as a fox about it. Trust me, poorQpine.