I like a lot of your ideas, but one has to weigh energy saving and producing against the reality of businesses paying folks for the time it takes them to move around slowly and with difficulty. Until it's common throughout the world, being "green" could price the avant garde out of the market. This is always a problem, of how to get started without killing off the sincere triers.

PS/ it took me 20 minutes to get a comments box to show in spite of having joined that whatchit thing. It can't be only me. I think you have a problem.

Sounds it. Yanno, my animals all became bilingual almost instantly. Cannot say I need a lean and tattooed anything around the house, but it is a cultural op, sì? He could push Italian biscuit words around for you. Educate you a bit.