It happens to all of us - green fatigue.  You are tired of following the green lifestyle day in and day out.  You find yourself thinking once too often that all your efforts are not worth it in the general scheme of things.  You are fed up with doing all you can while the others go about their own merry way destroying the environment one plastic bottle at a time.

There are many people, places and circumstances on which the blame can be laid on like icing on a cake.  You can blame the media for overdoing the whole environmental issue.  You can blame the government for not taking prompt and proper action on environmental issues especially where the corporate giants are concerned.

You can blame it on society for its greed for all things related to the accumulation of wealth.  You may blame the confusing and conflicting information about the products and practices related to the green movement.

You can blame everybody and anybody for your green fatigue.  But keep in mind that being green means taking responsibility for your own actions.  In fact, you may even be part of the phenomenon!  Read on and find out which of the category you belong in.

First, you may be the overzealous newbie who wants to convert every single person in his circle of family and friends, even the stranger on the street, into converts of the green lifestyle in just a snap of the fingers.  Unfortunately, humans have a hard time letting go of negative habits even when doing so is good for them - it’s human nature, pure and simply.

Well, you can take it one step at a time.  Explain to your family and friends of doing one little thing at home that has an impact on the environment.  Better yet, appeal to their sense of financial preservation by showing them the ways to save by being green.

Second, you may also be a green washer.  Just so you know, green washing means marketing a product as eco-friendly when, in reality, it is far from being green.  You can also employ such a marketing technique to attract more customers, of course, because it is a free country.

But when you are discovered to be a green washer, you can bet your last bankruptcy dollar that it was because your customers felt betrayed and, hence, went the other way.  Your green fatigue is not so much from ignorance but from apathy.

Third, your green fatigue can also be due to your attitude of bullying others into accepting the green lifestyle.  You may call yourself a big-stick green enthusiast wielding his stock to beat others into forced submission.

Instead, you should understand where others, whom you see as part of the problem of environmental destruction, are coming from.  Empathy will definitely go a long way towards converting others to the green lifestyle.

Fourth, you may be the hypocrite.  You say one thing for the environment and yet do another thing against it.  For example, you drive a gas-guzzling SUV just about everywhere and yet you profess to be green because of “Save the Planet” bumper sticker slapped on the windshield.

Well, the best advice we can give is to practice what you preach.  Start concrete actions on saving the environment in your own home, one day at a time.