A little over half of you who responded live in apartments or condos. Quite a few have single family homes. I’m not quite sure what we’ll do with this information, but it is interesting. Being "green" differs greatly if you are in a house or condo. For instance, most houses in Miami-Dade have access to recycling, whereas most condos do not. Houses can plant trees and gardens, while the condo-dwellers pretty much max out at a windowsill herb garden.

The most recent poll asked if you’d turned off the A/C at home. On this particular date, I had already had my air conditioning shut off for a couple of days. However, the coolness subsided, and it went back on. Later, we shut of the A/C again, only to need to turn it on again.

A good idea would be to really think about it everyday…is it necessary to cool my home today, or will opening the windows suffice?

I often find that the fresh air makes me more awake and more productive.

Any thoughts on the polls and their results?

The answer to this question affects issues such as energy efficiency, ability to recycle, and more.

Take the poll.

As I’ve mentioned before, using CFLs in your home instead of regular light bulbs, is probably the #1 easiest thing you can do to reduce your energy usage.

I’d love to hear your comments on these bulbs, your experience, and if you use them in your home.

Two green blogs, City Hippy and Jen’s Green Journal, are sponsoring a related campaign for the holiday season. It is called Christmas Lights, though I am p/c inclined to change it to Holiday Lights.

Here’s how it works. These bloggers want to encourage everyone to make the switch over to CFLs. In order to do so, they are asking people to pledge that they will give a CFL bulb to every person they give a gift to this holiday season. This could be in addition to a regular gift, or you could make it the gift itself!

See more details over at City Hippy and Jen’s Green Journal.

What do you think of this campaign? Will you pledge to buy CFLs for family and friends this holiday season? I did!

Soon, we’ll start providing more tools on how to save energy inside your home.

To get started, take our new poll: How many CFL light bulbs do you have in your home?

To learn more about CFL bulbs and their benefits, see our post on the easiest way to reduce your energy usage. 

As hopefully most readers have noticed, we offer a calendar feature on the right sidebar. We post the info, and it is hosted by Upcoming.org. I’ve created a greenerMIAMI group within that, as an experiment that will hopefully work out. In order to join the group, you will need to create an ID with the site. After that, you can subscribe to the group’s feed, start a discussion (or reply to the one I already started), and of course, join the group. Let’s give it a try and see if we would like to use this as our tool.

Take our new poll: How many KWH/day does your home use?

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I’d like to hear the details of your office situations in the comments below. Also, please tell us: Would you be interested in being part of a change at your office? If greenerMIAMI created an "office greening toolkit" (guidelines, tips, ideas on how to green your office/approach management), would you use it?

New Poll: Would you be interested in group events with greenerMIAMI?

Of our small sample, 71% can and do recycle, while 29% can’t and want to. These results were surprising and encouraging to me, a person without the ability to recycle from home. Any thoughts or comments from our readers? If you answered yes or no, tell us if you live in a condo or house.

Take our new poll: How "green" is your office?