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How green are you?

How green are you?

1. There’s a display of organic items at the supermarket. You decide to:
Have a look at what there is but don’t buy anything because it’s too expensive
Buy your organic basics (eggs, milk and butter)
Avoid supermarkets, preferring to tak your custom to small, local shops with organic produce
Walk past – you’re looking for the ready meals
2. What sort of consumer are you?
You try to spend less on better-value items. You choose Fairtrade goods and look for bargains on the internet
You limit your purchases, but mainly to save cash. You like to splash out on clothes and holidays – it’s up to you how you spend your money
You limit your purchases to essentials because our overconsumption is ruining us
You buy things, just like everyone does: it’s essential if society is to function and if we are to produce enough wealth for everyone
3. What do you do for the environment?
Nothing. You don’t think it will make any difference
Lots of things, such as saving water, sorting your recycling
You’ll do the things that are recommended, as long as it doesn’t inconvenience you or intrude too much
As much as possible. It’s been a way of life for you for a long time
4. Growing your own vegetables
Means you are at one with the earth
Is fine if you like gardening
Makes you fit and healthy but smug
Is a good way to eat healthily and put food on the table
5. Do you eat according to what's local and in season?
You don’t know what is local or in season
No, you don’t pay much attention to those details
You try, but it isn’t always possible
Yes, you always try to do both
6. What is your greatest fear?
That you will lose your job
That you won't be up to the tasks you set yourself
That you will fail at what you want to achieve
That something might happen to your family or children
7. A natural disaster leaves hundreds dead in a foreign country. You think:
Those poor people. We should be prepared for the worst when it comes to the environment
It’s terrible, but luckily that sort of thing doesn’t happen in this country
These things are happening more often. Environmentalists have more reason than ever to raise the alarm
How awful. If that happened to me I don’t know what I’d do
8. What do you value most?
Your family
Knowing your inner self
Your human qualitites
Your professional skills
9. When your boss asks what would improve your working life, you:
Ask for a pay rise or a share option. Or both
Suggest that you feng shui your office so that it's more pleasant and practical
Push for more recognition for what you do and monetary rewards
Ask for a new post that is better suited to your personality and competencies
10. It's Sunday and you've got the house to yourself. You use the time to:
Invite friends over whom you haven't seen for a while
Relax and unwind and do some housework
Catch up on work and take stock of where you are with everything
Relax all day, read a good book, wathc a film or make a nice dinner

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