it's easy being green (in europe)

Europeans seem to come by their greenness quite naturally.  For example, the tiny roads built for horses effectively defy the use of SUVs.  I, for one, drive La Trotinette, which not only saves the planet but contributes to my cardio-vascular health in style.  

Kirikou refuses to pose with La Trotinette

(Sarah:  You . . . scoot places?  Cari:  All the 8 year olds on my block are jealous.  Sarah:  ::nodding silently, seriously::)

But it's not all glamour and scooters.  There's also the short showers that remind you of the quarter-operated camp showers at Sequoia, the complete absence of paper towels at the grocery store (and with that the inevitable dilemma of whether you really want reuse a dishtowel after having wiped up cat vomit with it, even if you bleach it), and the lack of air conditioning that makes everyone look like Ashley Judd in A Time to Kill.

Nonetheless, it's a good green, giving you the good clean feeling you get when you bring your own reusable bags to the grocery store, as opposed to the medium-good feeling you get when you drink your Starbucks from a recycled-paper cup, and then throw it away.  Not to mention that exhilarating-good feeling you get when zooming downhill on your scooter at, say, 20 miles an hour.