I understand your frustration, but (just to pose some devil's advocate questions), your neighbours' behaviours that you describe probably already are inline wit

I understand your frustration, but (just to pose some devil's advocate questions), your neighbours' behaviours that you describe probably already are inline with government-mandated changes. Peat is in it's own category, so is neither renewable nor non-renewable according to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, so that's a useful loophole. If your neighbours' cars are at all recent, there's an excellent chance they are hybrids, which meet all of the stringent emissions regulations. And as for your energy source - is there anything renewable about powering your house with energy generators manufactured far overseas, using brown coal to fuel that energy-intensive process?