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sustainability
no body walks in LA
07.17.08 | Permalink | Comment?

…of course not, because it’s not “walkable” like our northern neighbor, San Francisco. SF bay scored a whopping 86 out of a possible 100 according to rankings released today by WalkScore.com, a service designed to help those seeking a less automobile-dependent life. According to the SF Gate:

San Francisco scored an 86 out of […]
green & environment
green death
07.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

If you want your eco-friendliness to continue into the afterlife, don’t be duped into buying one of these so-called “environmentally sympathetic” coffins. Yes, making coffins out of 60% recycled paper is a nice gesture, but the other 40% is just wood, albeit “sustainable.” Aren’t most coffins made of “wood from sustainable forests” anyway? The only […]
green & environment
green clubbing
07.15.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Everything’s going freakin green these days. However some things, you’d have to think, would be given a pass, like things/events that celebrate decadence or violence. For example, would we expect bullfight promoters to go green? Or how bout “green” cockfights in which roosters are fed organic chicken feed, and events are lit with electricity from […]
green & environment
carbon bigfoot-print
06.19.08 | Permalink | Comment?

A jungle[8] employee recently took inventory of his annual co2 output, or carbon footprint from 5 different web “carbon calculator” services. Here are his scores from each:
carbonfootprint.com 22.54 tons/year
nature.org 37 tons/year
climatecrisis.net 14.6 tons/year
carboncounter.org 14.66 tons/year
zerofootprint.net 28.5 tons/year
What does this mean? It means, among other things, this particular person is a mass CO2 […]
Conscious Thoughts, green & environment, social activism, sustainability
green guerilla warfare
05.22.08 | Permalink | Comment?

Think you’re being green by eating organic, imported produce, or drinking fair-trade coffee grown thousands of miles away? If an Extreme Green Guerilla saw your meal he/she would laugh, then probably kill you, so your carbon output would stop, since you didn’t appear able to decrease it yourself.
No, these guerillas are not from Central […]