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  1. Reality television.  If you’ve ever been exposed to tripe like Real Housewives of NY you know the wasted time, energy-loss and psychic damage that can result from watching it.  Please don’t get me started about the toxic emissions spewed forth by programs like Project Runway or that unwatchable, faux-green turd, Battleground Earth starring Tommy Lee and Ludacris.
  2. All manner of recreational vehicles and yuppie outdoor toys.  Ever try reading a book while some bozo on a jet ski keeps brainlessly churning up the same patch of lake?  Or, how about getting forced off a hiking trail by some cammo-clad lard-ass on an emissions spewing ATV; or better yet, try appreciating a bucolic winter’s scene as you’re surrounded by avalanche-inducing snowmobiles…
  3. Suburban lawns and the machines that maintain them.  Why is it, the only people you see on the beautifully manicured, 4-acre lawn encircling your neighbor’s suburban mcmansion are the 20 foreign gentlemen on ride-mowers it takes to give it its weekly haircut?  Did you know that an hour of gas-powered lawnmowing use creates the equivalent emissions of a 100-mile car ride?
  4. Green, sustainability experts’ book tours and speaking engagements.  Write a book on saving energy and using sustainable products, and then rack-up the commensurate frequent flier miles and airline emissions selling it to the masses.  I look askance at their buying of guilt…I mean, carbon offsets.
  5. Almost anything made in China.  Sure, you saved $1.99 at WalMart buying that Chinese space heater but what have you just done to the environment?  China produces more electricity from coal-powered power plants than even the U.S. (unfortunately, it’s close).  Follow the dotted line – pack thousands of ‘Made-In-China’ Barbie doll knock-offs onto an emissions-spewing container ship bound for a 5,000 mile journey to L.A. or New York, when you get to the docks, put those containers on a diesel burning 18-wheeler truck to get them from Chicago to Omaha where the dolls will hit the shelves of your local big box store.  You’ve just created a Shaq-sized carbon footprint.  Did you really save $1.99?