How can we make other ppl Green?

[llVoXll]

I know you know how to be green but that doesn't help very much if the other millions of pieces of the sand are not green. So, any ideas on how to make other people green? Or not green but to contaminate less than they're doing it now?

Since you can't force anyone to behave or change behaviour i find this tricky so my strategy is changing them without them noticing and a bit of the invisible hand manipulation is good

Easy to say, hard to do. But I got an idea from those 'Improving urself' books I hate but this one turned to be pretty interesting.

INNER - the change starts from oneself. We can be the trigger in those non-green persons to start this change, and it will be easier the closest you are with that person

OUTER - Social pressure, society, and SOC- stuff. Try to get a non-green dude mix with a group of your green-pals, get along and get them accustomed to ur style. Ever being in a group of pals for a long time and changed some habits without noticing? Kinda the idea here.

THE THIRD ONE - I dun remember. I'll search it l8r =)

[darkme]

Hey that's pretty good. Sorry for not replying earlier but anyways I agree when you say you can't force people to be green but like you said the first step is you trying to be green.

I mean that would make people see what you do and they'll maybe try to be green like you. Or you can tell them more about the environment, like in schools we should educate our peers, and it's really good.

I sometimes get my friends to do environmently friendly things when I'm with them, like they'd wanna throw away something on the ground but it's like i tell them to throw it in the rubbish basket.

Well, that's what I can think of right now, any other ideas?
- karma for u

[Zach]

Hmmm.. well I would probably say Outer. This society is all about what everyone else is doing; and if you're "not with the flow", people won't hang with you. It's kinda wierd, but that's how it goes. I think that if people around people that are green will make them green.

There are a lot of people at my school that wear "Reduce, Reuse, Recycle", or "Save the Earth from Pollution" shirts, and now its kinda like a fashion statement. To tell you the truth, I don't even think they really care about the environment.. but more being accepted by everyone else.

[darkme]

Ohh, that's not good. at our school we don't really have such stuff, but the important thing is that i'm noticing more students are knowing about environmnetal issues, it's really great how everyone is enhancing their knowledge about global warming.

and it's gr8 that we study about it too, it really makes u understand it better.

[Zach]

You guys study it? That's cool! Maybe you can share with your classmates The Green Dream

[darkme]

Yeah, we study it in social studies. There's a whole lesson on how global warming happens and what countries must do and such.

Me and Huda and the girls in our group did a power point presentation on Global Warming. It was fun to do it.

[Zach]

Cool Great job, Guys

[waed89]

one has to be the change s\he is trying to make so best thing to do is go Green ur self and influence others with ur own actions !!!
I am a bit green and it affected those around me ... no one dares to act non greenly in my presence

[Zach]

hahaa. karma for you.

[travisboddie]

Please check out Incovience Truth as I said in one of my post its a documentary by Vice President Al Gore which influence me alot and I hope to learn more from it

[travisboddie]

When I think about it we can't make people Green they have to want to change and see what they are doing to society to change there ways. What you think?