(Mother Goose & Grimm by: Mike Peters)
Yes, it’s Earth Day. In honour of the day I am wearing about 75% cotton. The percentage would be higher but my shoes and stretchy undergarments skew the average. Outer clothing, sans shoes, I would score a solid 95% OK, moving on… to really help celebrate I should ride my bicycle to work. I only live 2 miles from library. BUT… it is nearly dark when I come home. I suppose if I were squashed by a passing vehicle on my ride home, I would be mostly biodegradable, except, of course for the shoes and stretchy underwear… I’ll not ride the bike. I will drive the Honda Civic SI though, which gets over 30 MPG. I’ve already turned off all the lights around the house because it is 9:30 A.M. and the sun is quite bright today. We will probably have the air conditioning on at library today, so we get minus points for that bit. Last night before closing, I made a display of books about how to live “green” and “green up your lifestyle.” For good measure I also displayed a book about living Organically. We just recently acquired new books on the subject of “green” living. That is good since previous to that we had precious few. I personally recycle everything I can in the area of the USA we live in. The four of us who live here usually only produce a single garbage bin (average sized) of trash per week. I think that is pretty good. We reuse everything we can. I’m thinking of purchasing canvas shopping bags for the grocery shopping. I’m really trying. Are you?
Check this out for ideas: http://www.epa.gov/earthday/
Loved your earth post….FUNNY x 3. You’re living one of my dreams….to work in a library.
Where I live they give you a plastic bag for your plastic bag. At convenience stores I always just refuse the bag and carry the stuff out san-bag.
I still ask for ketchup at McDonalds though.
I guess that isn’t related, but it’s a big issue for me.
Hi. Please join the Bicycle to Work! LinkedIn networking group. Members pledge that they will try to ride their bicycle to work or on an errand at least once a week. Although the benefits should be obvious, let me outline them here.
Right now people in the industrialized world are facing two very grave problems: obesity and a growing scarcity of oil. Compounding this problem is the new food shortage brought about, in part, by the conversion of food cropland to bio-fuel crop production. Most people feel powerless to help, but there is one thing that we can do. Ride our bicycles to work.
If everyone would agree to ride their bikes to work one day per week we could cut oil consumption by as much as 10-15%. No one would argue that riding a bike burns more calories than driving the car. Although popular politically right now, most bio-fuels consume more energy than they produce. We would be much better to eat those bio-crops then use our own energy to transport us around.
So spread the word. Make it a movement! Bicycle to work one day a week and do your part to cut back obesity and the overuse of oil and precious cropland.
Just go to my profile at http://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffreylstevenson and you can click on the group to be included. While you are there, don’t forget to ask to link to my network of more than 7,000.000 like-minded professionals. I accept all invitations and look forward to meeting you.
Jeff
Ha! love the litterbox cartoon! For earth day I only deposited my fertilizer byproducts on the lawn and not on the sidewalk or street. Don’t want my stuff to get stepped in or washed down the storm sewers to go into Lake Erie!
I don’t believe in Earth Day. The environment is fine. The warming is completely routine.
Nice cartoon, by the way.