Get romantic with candles
First get some green candles. Confusingly, they can be any colour you like but should be made of natural wax like beeswax, soya bean or palm oil, and made locally if possible so they don’t have far to travel in lorries or planes.
Next set the table, prepare something delicious to eat and choose someone to eat it with.
Finally, persuade friends to form a string quartet and serenade you as you dine with carbon-neutral mood music (although careful, this may ruin a rather intimate evening-a-deux).
As someone once pointed out in New Scientist magazine, such a romantic candlelit dinner might well lead to an early night saving even more CO2 by using less lighting and heating. It might even end up turning two one-person households into one two-person household, in which case the long-term CO2 savings from more efficient use of shared electrical resources could be quite staggering.
Some good places to get good green candles:
More info from the Green Thing wiki >>
Here's a thing ... Eleanor Roosevelt once said: "It is better to light a candle than to curse the darkness." Green Thing says: "It’s better to light a soya candle and give yourself a chance of wooing the object of your affections than cursing another night alone in the darkness." Which is probably what Eleanor meant.
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