I have tried to be greener, but sometimes it is way hard to keep going forward with my limited budgets(I am poor grad student). Moreover, beyond the economic reason, just keeping and internalizing this LOFT ideal is really difficult because I couldn't explicitly see the changes that my behavior might have caused, and very few people around me are really into Green things. People, let me know how you keep motivating yourself, and how you reconcile conflicts between your ideals and realities