The Sustainable Lifestyles Test

all of your wastes

some of your wastes

none of your wastes

none but its time I made the effort

by using them all productively within your own homestead precinct

by taking them to a recycling depot

internally and externally

no I dont bother to try

never buy anything you can't recycle or that may cause pollution

try to avoid buying things you can't recycle or that may cause pollution

buy regarless of the pollutants generated

nature's solution to environmental imbalances

evil and must be destroyed

don't know but believe its my responsibility to find out

don't care either way

all of it

some of it

non of it but its time I tried

I don't see any point in growing my own food

self regulating permaculture methods

organic methods

chemical methods

I don't see any point in growing my own food

leave them to phase themselves out

pull them up and throw them on the compost heap

pull them up and use them to mulch the vegetable garden

pull them up and throw them in the general rubishh removal service

I broadcast my organic wastes over the vegetable garden

I put them on the compost heap

I put them in a pit bed

I mix them up with the general plastic wastes and blame everybody and everything else when a foul anaerobic smwll develops

In a general flush toilet

In a separation flush toilet, knowing that the urine was going into a heap of straw or paper

I'd urinate on the compost heap if the necessary facilities where provided for me as a girl

In a patch of prolific vegetation

I broadcast it over the vegetable garden

I put it in the approriate recycling bin at the super market

I shred it and put it in the compost heap

I just throw it in the general bin

I throw them straight out the kitchen window into an edible allsorts patch

I collect them in a plasic bucket and take them out to the compost heap

I collect them in a plasic bucket and take them out to the pit bed

I throw them in the general rubish bin

Have the debri removed regardless of where it ends up

Make sure that all felled material is productively recycled

Use the logs as landscaping pieces and the sticks for twig mulchig a self reseeding food garden

Use the felled material for firewood

a bicycle for anything under 10 miles

the most fuel efficient motor car I can afford

public transport or a motor bike

speed, power and my comfort and my image determine my choice of a vehicle

would have air conditioners and central heating

would regulate all of these requirements through solar passive architecture

some energy saving devices

a big fire place

a wood and coal stove

a braai / barbeque

electric stove and micro-wave

solar cooker, dutch oven and hot box