<center>[caption width="490" align="alignnone"]<img src="http://i.usatoday.net/communitymanager/_photos/green-house/2010/01/22/solarhomex-large.jpg" width="490" height="337" class /> Source: USA Today[/caption]</center>

One thing that makes me laugh about devotees of the Green-Left is they define themselves by ... wait for it ... What they buy. 

"Look at my rainwater tank/Tesla/grey-water system, organic fruit smoothies, ....". So convenient of them to delude themselves into thinking that the shiny new solar panel array on their house grew in a forest, without any help from the nasty mining or petroleum industries. So long as it all makes them feel 'nice' to be doing the 'right thing', I suppose it is worth it. Ha.

I'm likely to get all of the above too. But at least I am honest enough to admit the reason why: I like shiny new stuff, particularly if it saves me money in the long run.

One person I heard called this green consumerism the quest for "eco-bling". It is obviously more important to some to be seen doing the right thing, than to do the right thing.

[caption width="480" align="alignnone"]<img src="http://venturebeat.files.wordpress.com/2010/01/no-bling-480.gif" width="480" height="480" class /> Source: Venturebeat[/caption]