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Q. Do-it-yourself fashion is on the up - for both ethical and environmental reasons. Do you make any of your own clothes?

Q. Do you use reclaimed materials in your DIY? (Go to www.salvo.co.uk www.ace-reclamation.co.uk www.jatreclamation.co.uk)

Q. 83% of hotel guests get fresh towels every day. Do you reduce wear and tear and conserve energy resources by requesting clean towels only when you really need them?

Q. Have you asked for your name to be removed from the unaddressed junk mail list (www.mpsonline.org.uk 0845 7034599)?

Q. The UK Green Building Council is calling for all buildings except private homes to make a mandatory display of their energy consumption, to promote action on sustainability. Do you agree with this?

Q. The median for charitable giving in the UK is £10 a month - £2.50 a week. Do you give more than this?

Q. Recycling two glass bottles saves enough energy to boil water for five cups of tea. Do you reuse or recycle all your glass bottles?

Q. Last week celebrity chef Gordon Ramsay called for restaurants to be fined for using imported, out-of-season produce. Do you agree with him?

Q. Do you store fruit and vegetables in the fridge to prolong their freshness?

Q. Do you recycle your shoes?

Q. Do you ask where flowers are grown and how they have been transported before purchasing?

Q. It takes 8kg of grain to produce 1kg of beef. In light of the growing world-wide food crisis, should we stop eating meat?

Q. Should economic advantage be the only criterion for valuing migration to our region?

Q. Parents who want their children to eat healthily should focus more on serving them extra fruit and vegetables and less on giving them expensive organic produce

Q. Should we put limits on second home ownership in the South West?

Q. If every household in the UK used three energy-efficient bulbs, it would save enough electricity to power all the street lighting in the UK forever. Have you made the switch?

Q. Has the time now come for UK consumers to boycott bottled water and turn on the tap instead?

Q. Under-inflated tyres waste more than two million gallons of gasoline a day. Do you check your tyres once a month?

Q. The manufacturers of plasma TVs and games consoles should be obliged to include details of electricity use in their sales material.

Q. Is buying Fairtrade a better choice than buying a locally produced equivalent?

Q. When pensions were introduced in the 1900s there were 22 people of working age in the UK for every retired person. In 2024 there will be fewer than three. Are state pension schemes a thing of the past?

Q. In Denmark, wind power now produces approximately 20% of the country''s electricity consumption, and in recent surveys, 90% of the citizens wanted more wind turbines installed. Do you want more turbines in the South West of England?

Q. According to the Energy Saving Trust, almost half of the UK's carbon emissions come from the energy that we use every day – at home and when we travel. Will you make a green new year's resolution for 2008 - and stick to it?

Q. Should outside Christmas lights on houses be banned to reduce energy use?

Q. People who fly should bear the cost of the environmental damage that air travel causes.

Q. Around 5.5 million Christmas trees are bought each year in the UK; most are thrown away after use and end up in a landfill. Are you buying a rooted tree you can plant out and use again?

Q. I make a point of checking where fruit and vegetables were grown before I buy them

Q. In spite of the vast gains in world per capita income, over 50 countries are today poorer than they were 10 years ago. Is globalisation a good thing?

Q. I would favour a system that rewarded me if I recycled everything I could and penalised me if I didn't.

Q. Lighting is responsible for 7% of CO2 emissions in the UK and 16% of our domestic electricity use (www.gozero.org.uk). Honestly, do you always switch off the light when you leave a room?

Q. Foreign investors now hold over a third of UK shares. Does this matter?

Q. Humans are capable of finding ways to overcome the world's environmental problems

Q. The Australian Government is working with retailers to ban single use plastic bags by 2008. Should our government do the same?

Q. 60% of employees want challenging and interesting work. Do our business leaders give it to them?