What type of Christmas cards will you send this year? (paper Christmas cards, e-cards (digital cards), handwritten letter, other, none)

. Did you know you can recycle Christmas trees? What type of Christmas lights do you use to decorate your tree and home? (LED lights, traditional incandescent lights, none)

When Christmas shopping at the mall, do you typically- bring your own reusable bag, buy plastics bags, purchase reusable bags, buy paper bags

Does your community have a Christmas tree recycling program? Do you purchase recycled wrapping paper? When entertaining, do you use disposable forms of any of the following products? (napkins, plates, cups, cutlery)

What do you do with holiday dinner table scraps? (throw them in garbage, compost them)

Issues of the greatest importance (e.g. Health care system, gasoline prices, Adequate pensions, State of economy, Unemployment, ethics of gov., The environment, Canadian dollar) 2008 vs.2011

Concern about the environment? Importance of specific environmental issues (Keeping our fresh water clean [Water Quality], Conserving the supply of freshwater, Ensuring the cost of food staples stay low, Reducing excess waste and garbage, Reducing smog or air pollution [Air Quality], Protecting wilderness areas, Preserving wildlife and endangered species, Promoting locally grown food, Combating climate change, Stopping genetically modified food)

How strongly motivated are you to make personal changes that would benefit the environment? When you are making purchases do you think about the environmental impact?

Types of environmental consumers (Strong environmental buyers, Moderates, Unconvinced)

Environmental behaviors (Recycled all paper/cans/plastic products, Used fewer plastic shopping bags, Bought energy efficient appliances, Turned down the heat/a.c. in your house, Set appliances to energy saving, Stopped using pesticides, Drove your car/vehicle less, Stop or reduce drinking bottled water, Changed household cleaning products, Bought locally grown food, Switched to a more fuel efficient car, Used public transit more often, Used Compact Florescent Light bulbs, Installed a solar powered water heater, Bought organic food, Put investments in ethical funds)

% of Canadians are tired of being lectured to by environmentalists (2010 vs. 2011), % say that eco-friendly statements like "ecological footprint" and "sustainable development" are important when they select a product.

% of Canadians do not have any reusable bags, % have so many that they have stopped counting them, % are greatly or somewhat influenced by the environmental steps taken by a manufacturer or merchant in their decision to buy or not to buy a product.

% believe that putting recyclable or compostable materials in the selective recycling bin is the gesture that has the greatest positive impact on the environment, % believe it is limiting the use of fertilizers and pesticides

% of households drink bottled water predominantly, % drink tap water, % of those treat the tap water in some way (filtered water), Reasons why households with a municipal water supply treated their tap water before drinking it, % of households with a non-municipal water supply had their water tested by a laboratory, % of Canadian households have a water-saving showerhead, water-saving toilet [water quality]

% of households have leftover paint to dispose of, % of these households report that they took it to a depot or returned it to the supplier, % still have it in their possession, and did not know what to do with it [hazardous waste]

% of households have unwanted or expired medications to dispose of, % of these disposed of them in their regular garbage, flushed them down the toilet or put them down the drain, % said they returned the products to suppliers.

% of households with old computers or other electronics disposed of them at special waste depots or returned them to the supplier, % put them in the garbage, % did not know what to do with them.

% of households have a cistern, lawn, garden, % watered lawn, garden, % used timer on lawn/garden sprinkler

% use a private septic system, communal septic system

% have had an energy audit

Rating of indoor air quality, Methods of improving indoor air quality, Use of furnace fans and heat recovery ventilators (HRVs), Household awareness of radon

% of households purchased a major appliance within the last five years, Most important factors that influenced purchase (Energy or water consumption [green consumers], Reliability, Price, Features)

2007 edition includes: % purchase organic foods, used a recycled or reusable shopping bag

2006 edition includes:

% of households with access to at least one recycling program, % of households that had access to, and used, recycling programs, by material (glass, paper, plastics, metal cans), % of households composted kitchen or yard waste in 2006 [composting], % of households that composted by metropolitan area

% of households own a gas-powered snowblower, lawnmower, leafblower, motorized watercraft, snowmobile

% consider recycled paper products (bathroom tissue and paper towels) to be of equal quality as other products, % feel that they are contributing to paper recuperation efforts by buying product made of recycled fibers, % have quarrelled with someone who threw a recyclable product in the trash

% are now washing our clothes in cold water, % are limiting their use of electricity [energy conservation], % turned down their thermostats in the winter