Interview with Wang Suya

Here it is. She came from Innter Mongolia to Japan and is now studying solar thermal energy. She talks about why and how she became interested in Global Warming and started commenting on Andrew Revkin's Dot Earth blog everyday. What intrigues me is when she tells about her green life :

QUESTION: In your everyday life in Japan, how do you try to live a "green" life and reduce your carbon footprint?

WANG SUYA: This is a good question. I asked my husband to stop driving me two extra train stations every day, so this saves is some gas mileage every month. I also bought an electricity switch for my company computer to save electricity. I have also joined my company's eco-family activity to input our electricity, gas, water, gasoline bill every month. These are my small private, personal steps to be more green here in Japan.

Rght. I guess that most Japanese are doing the similar things. And even trash classification and recycling (embarrassing, yup). My family seldom drive a car, and we ride a bike as usual (we don't have much money, in fact). Really small steps, though.