Earth Day - How are you celebrating?

Who can I get to jump in my garbage bin to retrieve an old printer?

AA, please use all the colours in future posts...

To be fair...that's how I received it in my e-mail...strictly copy & paste.

I will celebrate by not recycling.

I am going to burn some used tires but they will be tires off of a smart car so its okay.

Deank wrote:I am going to burn some used tires but they will be tires off of a smart car so its okay.

I'm going to play my favorite Earth Day song, "Earth Day," by Devin Townsend, a Canadian. Epic greatness. The chorus is "Recycle!"



Eat your beets, recycle...recycle...
Don't eat your beets, recycle...recycle
The message is; 'THERE IS NO MESSAGE'
Babe, you better not ever think,
Staring into the drink...get out of my mind...
Cause I may not be the one to say,
is there no other way we could do this another day?
I saw God.
She said...'If you don't believe me,
guaranteed you'll never leave me'
On your way, and out of my time
But I didn't even know if it was true or
just a result of chemicals
Shut up and think of something more important to say...
'Sometimes I think that in every straight
there's a gay!' Something or nothing a whole
either way it's a way,
it's a way, it's a way, it's a way, it's a way
EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY
it's a way, it's a way, it's a way, it's a way
EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY, EARTH DAY
It's like your birthday, it's on Earth Day,
Like a child you're born again, little child you're bored again...

It's your worst fricking day, it's on Earth Day...
Little lies to cover up...please make your mind up
(Eat your beets, Recycle...recycle...)
(...Don't eat your beets, recycle...recycle)
Man Overboard (I'm so far away)
Man overboard (I'm so far...)
But frick it! ...I really don't care
frick! Listen to me! Just shut the frick up!
Peace, Love, Joy
Man overboard (I'm so far...)
Hate, hell, war
Hate, love, love, hate, love, hate...destruction!
So just shut your face and take a seat
Because after all, you're just talking meat...and music?
Well, it's just entertainment folks.
Sometimes I think that I really have something moreto say...
'Sometimes I think that in every straight
there's a gay!' ...forgive me for saying it
blows either way, it's a
way,
it's a way, it's a way, it's a way, it's a way...
It's your birthday, it's on Earth Day,
Like a child you're born again, little child you're cold again...
It's your worst fricking day, it's on Earth Day
Little child your time is up...please turn the heat up
You need your beets, you recycle...
...Don't eat your beets...recycle...
Man overboard...I'm so far away...

same old same old.
I poke a two by two hole a foot deep in the swamp mud I call my backyard.
I drink a little wine, strip naked, flop down and smack around on the face of mama earth.
we are one again.
have a smoke, finish the wine and throw my bottles and butts over the fence.

tick wrote:same old same old.
I poke a two by two hole a foot deep in the swamp mud I call my backyard.
I drink a little wine, strip naked, flop down and smack around on the face of mama earth.
we are one again.
have a smoke, finish the wine and throw my bottles and butts over the fence.

ummm... got any pics?

AgesAces, why don't you encourage people to keep those items like DVD players and NOT to recycle them yet. The items are probably still good to use.

What's the purpose of encouraging people to buy the latest gadget every 2 or 3 years, when in previous decades, let's say the 1970s and prior to that, people had the same phone for several years, their tv for several years.

I'm not going to say NO to "consumerism", but I don't condone having people throw away perfectly good electronics items, only to ship them to S.E. Asia so some 10 year old kid can take it apart.

That's the society we've evolved to... The biggest or newest or flashiest. Keeping up with the Jones.

I remember when most homes only had one phone, And one TV. And one car. And one parent working. I believe life was much more comfortable back then.

It sure was a hellava lot simplier. But fewer chioces though.

The promblem two day is we have so many very nice people worried about everything that may possibly happen!
It is all hogwash, but it alows all of us, who have no life, to start a conversation, or add to a conversation, with, did you heer the latest threat to the world, that dog hair can cause sewer back up and drownongs, if we don't kill and eat all long haired dogs!

Problem is, they are not built to last anymore.

jimj_wpg wrote:AgesAces, why don't you encourage people to keep those items like DVD players and NOT to recycle them yet. The items are probably still good to use.

If people have working equipment...I would encourage them to donate it to a charity, like ValueVillage or Salvation Army.

I think the focus here (again, I posted here...but it's from an e-mail I received) is for non-working stuff. Things that could end up in a landfill, but that instead can be recycled or repaired.

rosencrentz wrote:The promblem two day is we have so many very nice people worried about everything that may possibly happen!
It is all hogwash, but it alows all of us, who have no life, to start a conversation, or add to a conversation, with, did you heer the latest threat to the word, that dog hair can cause sewer back up and drownongs, if we don't kill and eat all long haired dogs!

I wouldn't worry about dog hair in the sink, but rather there is more worrysome about Barium in our air.

I am less concerned with the Barium in the air that I am with the Teflon in the entire environment.

jimj_wpg wrote:

rosencrentz wrote:The promblem two day is we have so many very nice people worried about everything that may possibly happen!
It is all hogwash, but it alows all of us, who have no life, to start a conversation, or add to a conversation, with, did you heer the latest threat to the word, that dog hair can cause sewer back up and drownongs, if we don't kill and eat all long haired dogs!

I wouldn't worry about dog hair in the sink, but rather there is more worrysome about Barium in our air.

Is that what happens when you fart after having a barium enema?

I am going to eat beans.....drink beer.....smoke cigarettes......and perhaps think of/engage in some other activities that are non polluting but mutually fun......

Miz point wrote:I am going to eat beans.....drink beer.....smoke cigarettes......and perhaps think of/engage in some other activities that are non polluting but mutually fun......

LOL... so like if you need us to get Mr P out of the house for something.. just let us know...

I AM GOING TO MAKE SURE I BUY ONLY GREEN PRODUCTS!!
Eco-friendly labelling? It's a lot of 'greenwash'

Environment Minister John Baird, left, and Health Minister Tony Clement hand out baby bottles that are free of bisphenol A to 5-month-old Georgia Symonds and other babies in Ottawa, April 18, 2008.

THE SIX SINS OF GREENWASHING
1. Hidden trade-offs: A product that's eco-friendly in some ways, but not others, such as paper from sustainable forests that's bleached by methods that release dioxin.
2. No proof: A claim that can't be substantiated by easily available information or reliable certification, such as toilet paper claiming a certain percentage of recycled content, but without evidence.
3. Vagueness: A claim so poorly defined its meaning will likely be misunderstood. "All natural" isn't always non-toxic, for instance.
4. Irrelevance: A claim that may be truthful but not helpful – CFC-free is a frequent claim, but CFCs are banned by law.
5. Fibbing: False claims, such as products claiming to be Energy Star-certified that are not.
6. Lesser of two evils: A claim true within a product's category, but not for the category overall, such as a "fuel-efficient SUV."

98% of product claims fail 'sin-free' test, marketing experts say "All-natural" shampoo. "Planet-friendly" glass cleaner. "BPA-free" baby bottles.
The labels on 98 per cent of those good-for-the-earth-and-your-body items you fill your shopping basket with are lying, a new study shows.
Of the more than 2,000 self-described environmentally friendly products in North America examined by the environmental marketing firm TerraChoice, only 25 were found to be indisputably "sin free." The rest were greenwashing, a term environmentalists coined to refer to misleading environmental ads or claims.

http://www.thestar.com/article/619936

How about those bamboo utensils - they claim they are "green" because bamboo grows quickly - but all that bamboo has to get transported from Asia!?

They rock.

there is over 1000 varieties of Bamboo....several of them grown in the southern states.....I like the bamboo floor material....wonderful stuff to walk on....