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Most men I know aren't as concientious as women about those thing - just what I have observed!

My parents didn't teach me about conservation and environmental impact, though. I learned that in school. I'm a furious recycler, conserve water and energy with a passion, and purposely walk to work and take public water transport - leaving my car in my driveway. Two miles each day. I hope teachers are still igniting the passion in schoolchildren in my district to be careful with our planet, because I can't help but wonder myself if parents are teaching the next generation to do the same.
I learned from my parents. My Dad was one of the early bike commuters in 1970s in Los Alamos. My parents got rid of the gas hog station wagon when the 1979 gas crunch hit. I walk to work about 2/3 of the time. My 1100 sq. ft townhome is devoid of many common energy sucking devices: no TV and no computer. My "stereo system" is cheapee Wal Mart CD cassette player. The queen size water bed I sleep on keeps me very warm at night, so warm that I only run my furnace through the night when it is very cold. (below 20F) I don't have an air conditioner either. Living at 7300 feet in a dry climate helps. Those of you that live in very hot and/or humid climates need air conditioning.

Some people have gotten the conservation message, others have not. Here is a letter to my local paper about one family that understands conservation.
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My town also does the "just put it in a bin" thing. It's even easier now because we don't have to separate anything - it used to be (in the early 90's) separating every plastic by type, different types of papers (cardboard, paper, corrugated cardboard), glass, etc. Then it went to all plastic and glass in one bin and paper (except corrugated cardboard) in another. Tie up your corrugated cardboard separately.

Now we got a new company and now we put everything in the same bin.

And yet, there are at least three women I work with who don't recycle. It's just plain laziness. We each have a garbage can and a recycling bin at our desks. At the end of the day I pick the paper out of their garbage cans because they're too lazy to move an extra 3 inches to put the paper in the recycling.

And every time they put something in the garbage in front of me, they sigh and say, "I guess you want me to put that in the recycling bin." So they OBVIOUSLY know that they are just being lazy!

That's what drives me nuts. The complete and total apathy.