One of the best ways to reduce your carbon footprint, get healthy and stay fabulous! is to ride your bicycle and get out of that automobile.

Yes, owning and maintaining a bicycle isn't a zero-sum game with regards to waste.  It is possible, however, to over-think and over-worry about things, so here's a new program available to you that might alleviate any niggling worries you might have about what to do with your inner tubes when you’ve patched them so much they look like great-grandma’s favorite quilt.  If you've run out of uses for worn (and hole-riddled) inner tubes around the house you can also recycle them.

While Othello laments that he will wear his heart on his sleeve “for the daws to peck at,” you might want to put your conservationist spirit on your car for all the neighbors to “gawk at.”  The South Carolina Department of Motor Vehicles now offers a “Reduce Reuse Recycle” license plate.