Tuesday June 24, 2008, 5:40 am
Nothing “goes away”; it is simply transferred from place to place, converted from one molecular form to another, acting on the life processes of any organism in which it becomes, for a time, lodged. One of the chief reasons for the present environmental crisis is that great amounts of material have been extracted from the earth, converted into new forms, and discharged into the environment without taking into account that “everything has to go somewhere.” The result, too often, is the accumulation of harmful amounts of material in places where, in nature, they do not belong.

-Barry Commoner, The Closing Circle, 1971

PLANT TREES FOR LIFE......

Tuesday June 24, 2008, 6:06 am
In 1997 we gave a
collective heave-ho
to more than 430 billion lbs.
of garbage. That means
each man, woman and child
tossed out an average of
nearly 1,600 lbs. of
banana peels, Cheerios boxes,
gum wrappers, Coke cans,
ratty sofas, TIME magazines,
car batteries, disposable diapers,
yard trimmings, junk mail,
worn-out Nikes--plus whatever
else goes into your trash cans.
An equivalent weight of
water could fill 68,000
Olympic-size pools.

-Ivan Amato,
Can We Make
Garbage Disappear


PLANT TREES FOR LIFE.......

Tuesday June 24, 2008, 1:19 pm
We are learning. Care2 is leading the way the biggest change food shopping, no meat.

I wonder how much of what we do we are not even aware of. How many of us have 'printitis', a medical condition that causes the operator to the 'print' button on the computer continually?

There are so many things we can do. My digital thermostat has paid for itself at least three times over. Question: could utilities install digital thermostats on low-income housing units? The customers receive subsidized electricity. The digital thermostat would lessen the power consumed, which would lower the cost of providing service - in other words, we would pay less tax as it costs less.