“Honey, let’s have a look at the Earth Day Carnival. Maybe we can buy somethings to change our lifestyle to be greener,” my wife said as we were walking at Ikea yesterday.

“Well, why not, after all, we only have one planet Earth,” I said.

We have been trying to slowly go green since we watched Al Gore’s The Inconvenient Truth. We started by changing all our bulbs to energy saving bulbs and choosing energy friendly televisions, laptops and recently we started using the reusable bags instead of plastic bags.

“Are these guys crazy? How are we suppose to use these products?”

“It’s bloody expensive. Just because it is green, they are pricing 3-10 times the normal price? Wow!”

Well that’s the sad fact. At the carnival, almost everything is overpriced. A baby’s shirt will cost your RM115. A simple reusable bag which you could buy for RM5 anywhere else is RM10 at the carnival — and it is much smaller.

I thought the carnival is suppose to educate the public on the need to go green. If you are overpricing everything, how do you expect the public to adopt a greener lifestyle. They seem to want to market green lifestyle = rich lifestyle. It doesn’t work that way. It should promoted in a way that everybody should and everybody can afford to go green.