Earth Day Tomorrow

[David]

I'm toying with driving the diesel.

[Paul Mihalka]

I am going to do a very special effort and commute with the bike

[David]

That's not special--you do that every day!

[russell_bynum]

I'll be driving the old POS BMW. I'd drive the truck, but it's still down for new ball joints and universals.

 

Maybe I could take up smoking to offset the truck being parked.

 

 

[AZKomet]

I went to Target and got my reusable bag...which I will forget to take in the store each and every time I shop!!!!!!!!

[rfc1992]

Seen while driving back from Ft. Myers: Dodge Ram 3500 with trailer and bed full of motor equipment - Window Sticker: "I have a HUGE carbon footprint."

 

That even beat the "EARTH FIRST! (we'll strip-mine the other planets later)" that I first saw in the '80s.

[Mike O]

I'll make every effort not to fart tomorrow...

 

Mike O

[Spike]

I'm toying with driving the diesel.

 

Thats my plane. Might even leave it in 5th gear and really get that turbo spinnin

[ESokoloff]

I'm toying with driving the diesel.

 

That could be a good thing.....

[Matts_12GS]

I'm toying with driving the diesel.

 

I think I'll go roost up a meadow and then park the DR to let it drip some oil into the groundwater.

 

[hANNAbONE]

uM........isn't it EarthDay everyday?

 

 

 

jus' sayin'

[tallman]

 

I hugged a tree this morning.

It didn't hug back.

[Joe Frickin' Friday]

I'll make every effort not to fart tomorrow...

 

Then I guess The Day After Tomorrow won't just be a bad movie...

[Selden]

I went to Target and got my reusable bag...which I will forget to take in the store each and every time I shop!!!!!!!!

My wife and I have accumulated a basketful of cloth bags from 30 years of library conferences; after a while, we got so picky that we only took ones with zipper tops. That said, the green (not the red) Target bag holds deceptively more than it would seem, and even though it doesn't have a zipper, it's in our working collection of bags.

 

My contribution to Earth Day this year is to use only muscle powered transport -- granted, it's not a voluntary decision, but hey, it's the thought that counts.

[tallman]

OK, being serious.

 

Eat anchovies.

Why?

Because pig farmers feed seafood meal, which has a lot of anchovies in it, to their pigs, overfishing results.

So, eat anchovies, price goes up, less likely to be used in making bacon.

 

Drink shade grown coffee.

 

Buy organic eggs.

Avoid chicken and eggs from the poultry farms.

Ever seen the dead zone, 200 miles by 35 miles off the coast of Maryland?

The nitrates have fueled a cycle that resulted in that.

 

Drink fresh squeezed OJ, never buy from concentrate.

 

The carbon footprint for some of these is huge.

 

Buy local produce.

[Spike]

Buy organic eggs.

Avoid chicken and eggs from the poultry farms.

 

Where do the organic eggs come from? Are people chasing wild chickens around the getting their eggs? :confused:

[Matts_12GS]

Buy organic eggs.

Avoid chicken and eggs from the poultry farms.

 

Where do the organic eggs come from? Are people chasing wild chickens around the getting their eggs? :confused:

 

Reminds me of the Far Side episode of the chicken in a chaise lounge on the beach... sunglasses on he looks at the guy next to him and says "They made me a free range chicken and there was no looking back!"

[Bob Palin]

Buy organic eggs.

Avoid chicken and eggs from the poultry farms.

 

Where do the organic eggs come from? Are people chasing wild chickens around the getting their eggs? :confused:

I'm more interested in where the inorganic eggs come from - stoned chickens?

[Joe Frickin' Friday]

Eat anchovies.

Why?

Because pig farmers feed seafood meal, which has a lot of anchovies in it, to their pigs, overfishing results.

So, eat anchovies, price goes up, less likely to be used in making bacon.

 

:confused:

 

so...because excessive demand is causing overfishing of anchovies...you're suggesting we create additional demand for anchovies?

[steve.foote]

I didn't celebrate Earth Day this year but I do have special plans for Milky Way Day.

[tallman]

Eat anchovies.

Why?

Because pig farmers feed seafood meal, which has a lot of anchovies in it, to their pigs, overfishing results.

So, eat anchovies, price goes up, less likely to be used in making bacon.

 

:confused:

 

so...because excessive demand is causing overfishing of anchovies...you're suggesting we create additional demand for anchovies?

 

No, pricing response would remove them from the fishmeal as the price would make it less desirable for pig feed.

The overfishing off of Peru is threatening pelicans and penguins.

Ther are other options.

 

Buy organic bacon.

It is yummy.

 

Are you guys serious about not knowing where to get organic eggs?

 

Bob,

the average egg layer in a poultry production lives 1 1/2 years.

They produce @100 eggs and are kept penned where they can't turn.

Eventually bones fail and they can't stand.

Those eggs have been produced with hormones, substances to make the eggshell whiter, and loads of other goodies.

 

How about OJ?

 

No, not him.

 

One 8 oz glass from frozen concentrate, requires, among other things, 45 gallons of water,

1/2 gallon of gas, malathion, parquat, corn syrup

dextrose, honey,

oh, and 6 fresh oranges.

 

75% of the apples sold in NYC, which is in an apple producing state, come from Washington (3,ooo miles)

or New Zealand (9,000 miles).

 

Sun grown coffee is deforesting large areas of rain forest with intensive monocrop

use. It is not a sustainable industry.

Other types, such as shade grown, can be.

 

This is the tip of the iceberg.

 

 

Oh, and for laughs, today in 1986, the US Dept. of Agriculture approved the release of the

first genetically altered virus into the environment.

Guess Earth Day wasn't as big back then.

 

[Matts_12GS]

That it was created on some famous Russian guy's 100th birthday is kind of ironic too...

[Selden]

I'm sitting on the porch, enjoying the flowers, pollen, and sound of gasoline powered yard equipment, when I see the guy who lives in the house directly across the street, turn right from his driveway in his Mercedes convertible, made a u-turn so that the driver's side would be on the same side as the mail box, pick up his mail, then drive back up the driveway. The path from the front door of his house to the mailbox is 100 feet long, max. Makes me wish for some of those sharp spiky metal things that look like jacks to sprinkle in his driveway.

 

And, the mailbox was empty. The mail truck just passed by; I wonder if he'll drive out again.

[Kathy R]

I'm sitting on the porch, enjoying the flowers, pollen, and sound of gasoline powered yard equipment, when I see the guy who lives in the house directly across the street, turn right from his driveway in his Mercedes convertible, made a u-turn so that the driver's side would be on the same side as the mail box, pick up his mail, then drive back up the driveway. The path from the front door of his house to the mailbox is 100 feet long, max. Makes me wish for some of those sharp spiky metal things that look like jacks to sprinkle in his driveway.

 

And, the mailbox was empty. The mail truck just passed by; I wonder if he'll drive out again.

 

He could have some hidden affliction like the rear is torn out of his pants or one of his legs is asleep.

 

For Earth day I just simply lived on the planet, happy that it was still spinning along. Thank you planet Earth.

[Rphoto]

The volcano in Iceland seems to have cast a bit of a shadow (so to speak) over Earth Day efforts this year.

[Selden]

After the mail was delivered, he walked down to the mailbox, cigarette in hand.

[upflying]

I wonder how China celebrates earth day?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/world/asia/10pollute.html

[Kathy R]

After the mail was delivered, he walked down to the mailbox, cigarette in hand.

 

It must have been short a drive to light up

[Ken H.]

Well it’s probably no surprise I’m a big supporter of the day. I took mass-transit (as usual) to work and am a charter member of our company’s newly formed ‘green’ committee that met for the first time today.

 

OTOH I cringed big time at an add for a major Canadian chain store in today’s paper that had the banner, “Mow Down Pollution” with a, you guessed it - big sale on gasoline powered lawn mowers.

 

And the CBC ran a news story, “Can the oil sands be re-branded?” Like that’s some sort of a solution or something.

 

Sigh...

[Harry_Wilshusen]

I celebrated Earth Day by not fertilizing, watering or cutting my lawn. Every day is Earth Day for me.

 

My neighbors hate me.

 

 

Harry

[Rinkydink]

I always wait for Earth Day to Roundup all of the weeds in my yard

[moshe_levy]

Earth Day coincided with "Take Your Daughter To Work" day, and by my office there's a small lake that's been littered by pigs who can't walk 100 feet to the garbage can to dispose of their Coronas. My company has a recycling policy and dedicated 70 gallon bin, so at lunch I wheeled it out to the lake, where my daughter and I spent an hour filling it with all the crap.

 

I must say, the schools really drill this environmentally friendly stuff into the kids' heads. She's only 8, but was packed with knowledge about how to categorize recyclables, plus she was more horrified by the litter than I was - I think that's a good thing...

 

-MKL