What are your "green dreams"?

ArcticFox

I guess the question is, what are some green things you'd love, but are totally out of the question (financially, etc)?

For instance, we wanted to buy a house on a few acres and have little goats.  But we couldn't find anything we liked, and nothing affordable, so now we live on a tiny lot in a development with an HOA, so it is totally out of the question.

I would also love solar panels, but there is no way we can afford them for a while.

LargeMargeSentMe

I want some backyard chickens, but we live in a small sub. and the coops are pretty expensive! 

Lace314

i REALLY REAAAALLLLY want to start a green business.  i'd love to make a way for people to recycle conveniently. our system sucks BIG TIME. my area doesn't get a pickup and our city's location closes at 3pm every day of the week. it's just ridiculous. no wonder no one wants to recycle. i understand the idea that they need to have a bigger need before they can hire someone to sit out there all day, but they won't get a bigger following till they make it to where people can actually do it!!

argh. i feel so strongly about it, i just don't know how to go about starting it.

SuperGreen

We're actually working hard on making our "green dream" come true!  Our dream is to move to ~5 acres (or more) in Upstate NY where DH's family is, and have a little homestead.  We're going to grow all own food, and definetely have chickens, and possibly ducks and goats.  We're planning on buying a small ranch home, so we can do all our own household and roof maintenance.  I'll be a SAHM, and hopefully we'll grow enough produce to have a stand at the Farmer's Market.

To accomplish this goal, DH is looking for work in upstate NY.  Our backyard veggie garden is doing great, we just picked our first green beans yesterday!  I've started working at our Farmer's Market at an organic produce vendor, so I'm learning all kinds of tricks.  We're canning, drying, and freezing local produce so we can eat local year round, and cooking everything we can from scratch.  We're making lots of food stuffs ourselves, including red wine vinegar, hard cider, yogurt, and granola.  We haven't gotten far with bread and cheese, but hopefully that's coming next!

MrsBrownsFan

I would love to live somewhere where we could harness the wind for energy.  I saw some wind farms on the way across the state a few weeks ago, and I think they are so awesome.  

I would also love to have a garden, but we live in an area where the start-up would be pretty expensive due to needing to create a raised bed and bring in dirt, so that will have to wait.  For now, I just buy organic and local and let that be my compromise.

diana3215

Solar panels is our biggest. We are hoping to be able to save up for them when we move to our forever home in a decade or so. I know it is far off, but that is ambitious for us given the financials.

Tyrna

I would love to have solar panels and have enough time / knowledge to grow tons of stuff in a garden.  I have a terrible brown thumb but I am trying to work on that.  I also would like CO to stop banning rain barrels, and for more restaurants to get smarter about their containers and waste.

MrsJetSet

Solar Panels.. hopefully in 5-10 years.

AlbanyBride33

We'd eventually like a few acres, some chickens, goats and if money was no object I'd want to be completely off the grid! 

LolaGeek

We were looking into solar panels, but they cost way more than we can afford right now, and it would take us 25 years to earn back our investment (even with the rebates PA is offering right now). Since we're not planning on staying in this house much longer, it wasn't worth it. When we find our "forever home," we'll try again.

I'd also love to have a small vegetable garden or even just an herb garden. I've tried several times, but I must have a black thumb ( And I can't grow anything inside (e.g. herbs) because the cats will eat it.