the increasingly extended product cycle (thank you globalization) hides much of the costs of a product. consuming less seems to be a key component of any green movement, but it ain’t always easy to tell what ripples your activity has caused. if you can’t accurately determine what lifestyle changes are actually effective, how do you decide which lifestyle changes to make? but i guess the basic ones — turn out the light, recycle, eat less meat — you can’t go wrong with those.

and this is just funny. and backs up the point in the post article about lifestyle/habit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wq9ilgw1plc