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Earth Minute letdown: What now?
Share some ideas on how to green up living the other 525,948 minutes of the year. Every minute should be Earth Minute. (Wait, that might not end so well...)
Wed, May 20 2009 at 3:50 PM
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Steven Earl Salmony May 27 2009 at 1:33 PM
More leaders like President Barack Obama and Michelle Obama are needed. The leaders of the family of humanity can do better and I trust all of us, leaders and followers alike, will choose necessary behavioral change rather than the profane maintenance of a morally disengaged and patently unsustainable socioeconomic status quo. Socioeconomic reasoning is feeble, fundamentally flawed reasoning, and suggests its inconsequentiality, because such “self-interested” reasoning is faulty; it has everything
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to do with what is economically expedient and socially suitable {as well as politically convenient, religiously tolerable and culturally prescribed} and nothing to do intellectual honesty, moral courage and an appreciation of the practical requirements of biophysical reality. What is often called socioeconomic reasonng is a kind of ‘reasoning’ that cannot lead the human community to meaningfully embrace sustainable lifestyles, to sensibly protect biodiversity and to recognize the necessity for preserving Earth and its environs. For the past eight dark years economic powerbrokers, their bought-and-paid-for politicians and the absurdly enriched talking heads in the mass media have adamantly insisted that everyone live as they have, without regard either to human limits or Earth’s limitations and in evidently unsustainable ways. Our children will learn {the hard way} from these not-so-great elders the price to be paid for the unadulterated arrogance and unbridled greed of a single generation. The brightest and best, most powerful advocates of socioeconomic reasoning are leading the children down a “primrose path” to some sort of colossal ecologic and/or economic wreckage, I fear, the likes of which only Ozymandias has witnessed.
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Guest May 20 2009 at 10:37 PM

Look at all the eco-friendly articles for greening your business marketing collateral at http://ecopreneurist.com/ Keyword Products or Simonetta.

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MNN Moderator May 20 2009 at 5:39 PM
...take public transportation, open the windows instead of turning on the AC or heater, carry around reusable bags...but the biggest thing I've done is vote with my dollars. I try to spend every dollar on items that I'd like to stick around. For example, if Costco disappeared tomorrow, I wouldn't care. But I would fall apart if E.Shaver's bookstore in Savannah closed down. So when I buy a book, I only buy it from there. In a nutshell, I don't spend money at places that don't improve the world...
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and i don't care how cheap they're offering it for.
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BCH May 20 2009 at 4:38 PM

I found giving up red meat for the Earth hasn't been that difficult; it's a lot easier than giving up all meat completely. I've cut back on other meat at least. I read beef takes 30 times the energy to produce than chicken, so cutting beef will have the quickest impact, and is prolly a smart move for health too.

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Jeffrey May 20 2009 at 4:35 PM

container gardening ftw! i started my container gardens to grow my favorite veggies and herbs...and with the extra vegetation around the house, i don't have to commit to holding my breath anymore. w00t!

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Shea Gunther May 20 2009 at 4:30 PM
I've been taking Navy showers for years- I'll turn the water on to get wet, then turn it off to soap up, then back on to rinse. Sometimes I'll linger for longer than I probably should, but for the most part I'm pretty good about not hoovering down tons o' hot water. I'm also a pretty good hypermile driver- slow to accelerate with an eye on the road ahead- looking for chances to drop it into neutral for a good coast. I've made a big effort in the past year to cut down on the amount of plastic I
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use- I've traded my old shampoo bottle for a locally made bar shampoo that comes wrapped in paper. I don't buy a lot of packaged food at the grocery store and have gotten religious about reusable shopping bags. I also skip buying soda or bottled water. I've also setup my entertainment system on a power strip so I can turn it off at night- no vampire power suckers for this guy. Small things for sure, and I have a lot more that I can do, but it's something. We're probably not going to find our way out of this eco-mess we're in without changing the way we live/consume/waste. The trick is to do it in a way that makes our lives better. Simple living is good living.
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Dana Glaeser May 20 2009 at 4:30 PM

Every year, over 130 million cell phones are discarded. Less than 10% are actually recycled. Recycle your old cell phones: www.CellularRecyclingCenter.com.

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