I grew a garden to cut food cost and because it is healthier eating. I know what went on my vegetables which I had as a totally organic garden.

I conserved gas usage for only if I needed to go somewhere and I always try to do several things making a big circuit of the city. I  look for and compare cost of gas, as well as try to purchase gas on days when it is running cheaper i.e. around Tuesday or Wednesday.  I try to mantain my car to ensure I am getting optimum usage of gas per trips made.

I save aluminum cans and other things and recycle,  I save rainwater to water my garden mainly. I only wash clothes a few times during the week and only dry clothes at night in the dryer. I am checking on a clothes line for outside to dry clothes on.

If I had my druthers I would have a completely self-sufficient place, that supports with all homegrown foods including meat, eggs, and dairy,  The home would be all energy efficient, and well maintained, solar panels and a wind turbine or two, geothermal heat would be nice if a person could have it in my location. I like the idea of recycling things like tobacco stalks etc  into furnishings, countertops etc where wood or other is usually used.  Maybe even grow a crop of bamboo and use some of that for furniture as well as in the spring harvesting bamboo shoots. meanwhile it could act as a wind  and sun foil to protect the house and as a natural privacy fence.

I know how to sew, knit, crochet, embroider, tat, and weave. I would even go so far as to make my own clothes etc if I could. :D

Any extra stuff could be sold to the public. And extra amount of utilities could be possibly purchased from me by the local utility companies.

  I would like to see cars running off of hydrogen or water even. I think it can be done. Then we, as a nation, would not have to depend on domestic or foreign fossil fuels.