Just another gimmick from a 'caring' government. I'm sick of all these initiatives which cost large amounts of tax-payers money with little return.

It would be interesting to see how much carbon emission comes from businesses compared to domestic carbon emission.

Martin Andrews, Berks, England

Mr Bartley, spot on. Any excuse to raise taxes. Especially if it can be done with that moral smugness that people of 'Vision" adopt. Their holier than thou act is quite stomach churning. Did anyone see that the Sun poured out a solar flare the other day. In FIVE minutes it did more damage to the Ozone layer than we have done since records have been kept.. Good thing the Ozone layer is self repairing. Another "Inconvenient Truth".

Desmond Taylor, Houston, USA Texas

Into which recycling bin should I throw my 'green pledge card' unread?

D Pedley, Beckenham,

Someone must start sometime, you cannot say if my neighbour does not do I won´t. Be the first.But I DO agree government should set an example.

Westpinosa, Madrid, Spain

Sad, really. These wasters would be better occupied preaching their message to the Indians, Chinese and Africans. Instead we suffer this sort of inanity from them, and have to pay for it with tax money which could be better spent on real services. Are there any sensible politicians anywhere in the country?

Paul Carlin, Dromore, Co Down,

I can give some Green advice to David Miliband, ditch the leaflets and SAVE A TREE (if not a Forest) but the logic is so obvious it will be lost on this politician. If he goes ahead with this I suggest he dresses up in a costume with Squeeky Green Man emblazoned across it, ready at any moment to distribute a brochure and thus save the Planet. If only things were that simple ( apart from you David ),
"it's life Jim but not as we know it"

Simon, Leeds, U.K.

Hasn't anybody yet woken up to the fact that global warming is just a huge government conspiracy to raise taxes ? Did they not see the Great Global Warming Swindle on C4 a couple of weeks ago ? Even if you do believe it you surely have to question how 'green' it is to print and send pledge cards to every household in the country ? ! What a huge waste of resources. Any excuse to raise taxes! The sooner high tax labour get voted out the better.

James Bartley, Reading, Berks

Why are these goons allowed to waste our hard-earned money like this? This is a shameless, despicable government, bereft of ideas or good judgement.

G Williams, London,

I wonder who had the contract to produce these cards and who will make large amounts of money from this initiative?

This government is a shower of greedy self interested idiots.

They are enjoying themselves spending our money and siphoning it off into their friends and associates pockets in whatever way they can - while attempting to pretend that it is for our own good.

For green cards read 'greed cards'

M, UK,

Since the industry is still in charge of how it sells our products they should also change their food packaging, NOT just the consumer.
As the consumer we are obligated to buy most of our food in plastic packaging and then have to pay to get rid of it or recycle it. An all round concerted effort by everybody along the chain should be made and the industrialists and commercialists should also make a huge effort. Politicians should also not be dictated by the industry.

Karen Woods, Blackheath, United Kingdom

Al Gore in the states has some 'carbon credits" you can buy. He owns four homes in the states and uses 20 times the energy everyone else uses, so don't believe his claptrap.

When I see the leaders of the EU, Great Britain and the US riding bicycles instead of using limos, I might pay more attention.

This environmental 'crisis' is just another way for the governments run by the lefists of the world, to control your life.

Laurie Davis, Geneva, USA, New York

Not a little Red Book then?

john smith, manchester, UK

Cabinet ministers should be compelled to publish their annual electricty and gas usage. When the cabinet average falls below mine, I will start to reduce my usage.

David Ashton, Warrington, UK

The UK produces LESS than 2% of climate changing emissions. Anything you do is next to worthless when compared to the big polluters. Ask any "Green" and see what reply you'll get. It's a great sport!!

S.Beaton, St Cyrus,

Best thing to do with this example pseudo-green "gesture politics"? - Recycle it.

John Jenkins, Thame,

Mike Ayres is right. We have known for decades that oil would become scarce, and It is possible that an alternative energy source has been developed, and is being witheld, by organisations that currently rely on the revenue from oil for their existence. Any-one who has bothered to look into Peak Oil will be aware of the severe and devastating consequences to our society as a result of oil shortages. An organisation that can offer an alternative to oil will have a captive market and the ability to hold the country to ransome. I sincerely hope it doesn't come to that.

G Clarke, Colchester,

ID cards in one of today's news stories, green cards in another. Both are a waste of money. The only sensible course is to charge people more for anti-green practices and use the proceeds to make the alternatives more attractive. Improving public transport with the proceeds of congestion charging is an obvious example.

Barry, Wallington, UK

And how much money will THIS cost?

Jeremy Poynton, Fromeville, 51st State

More information pollution. Don't inhale and don't swallow it.

Roland Lucas, Guildord, UK

How much electricty, paper and ink has this cost and were there no dangerous emissions during the process? How much longer do we have to endure this government wasting OUR money on the nonsensical and having no money for pensioners, SEN schools and the health service.

Anne Chappell, Aldershot,

And this is from the man some want as Prime Minister? More Balirite gesture politics. Can't this government learn that most people just want to left alone to get on with their life? Talk about wasting money. Like another contributor mine will go strainght in to my recycling bin.

Ian Burgess, Bristol,

Will this nonsense never end? Saving trivial bits of energy makes virtually no difference to the 24 thousand million tons of CO2 produced each year. We fiddle while the world burns.
Is it possible that the environmentalists can't see the elephant in the room because they have all fitted low energy light bulbs? A huge supply of alternative energy on the same scale as the oil industry is the only solution and at present nobody is doing anything towards this.

Mike Ayres, Bodmin, Cornwall

Is this the same Mr Blair who has applied for planning permission to convert 2 houses into one?
Could someone give us an estimate of the carbon footprint of the proposed house, not withstanding that not only does it remove another house from Londons stock but I question whether it is a change of use to a business premises. I presume that the intention is to run the bliarfoundation from that address.

Dee, Bournemouth,

Another bout of being patronised by this Government. If they are so serious about CO2 then why not subsidise the cost of production of solar panels till the prices drop so far that economies of scale kick in and we can all get free electricity? The shambles that is the present grant system for solar panels shows they are unwilling to put our money where their mouth is. It's so much more satisfying to lecture people instead.

Ellen Buchanan, BROMHAM, BEDS

I have given national and local government many 'green' cards . The waste they cause, and could prevent, beggars belief.
Not because I believe that climate change is caused by man (God and nature have a lot to do with it, just as they have in the past!), but because I believe in the prevention of waste, and the greed and lies of politicians.

Martin, Forfar, Great Britain

Better would be that the government actually made it worthwhile for us to go green. I've spent £1200 to covert my Landrover Defender to run on vegetable oil or biodiesel, but with duty, VAT and 10% loss of economy it's more expensive than diesel. The biodiesel I use is made from recycled vegetable oil and is 92p/l but is less efficient than diesel.
I now produce much less fossil fuelCO2 but pay more for the privilege and pay more road tax. Hows that for a Green Chancellor.

J Guy, South Brent, Devon

Mine will go straight into the recycling bin.

CWW, Ipswich,

I don't need more waste to tell me not to waste, i'm intelligent enough to have been doing it for years. I'm sick of this government thinking we are all idiots. The rich/government are the ones that need telling, not us. This whole thing is yet another con as is the EU...

Samantha Jones, Bucks, England