~yawns and stretches~
It's 5:26am, and I'm just sitting down with my first cuppa joe. My caffeine consumption is seriously lagging these days, and that is probably not a bad thing.
I am relatively wide-awake for it being such an early hour. I was awakened around 3:30 by a combination of the pain in my back and the wretched feline yowling downstairs... sounded too much like my daughter saying "mom." Does that "mother hearing" never go away? ~sigh~
I hope you all liked yesterday's entry on The Story of Stuff. Other than some statistics, it really didn't present any information that I didn't know, but I hope it gets spread around the internet enough and seen by enough of those with the "Wal-Mart mentality" that SOMETHING in there strikes a chord with our consumer-driven masses.
Not that I think Wal-Mart is really any worse of a retailer than Target or K-Mart or Sears or Abercrombie or Macys... I see the same countries of origin on the labels of products sold in those stores as I do in Wally-World.
You know, if Americans were to not shop for a month (hell, two weeks), it would do more to damage our economy than high gas prices, plummets in the stock market, the failure of large banking/insurance corporations, and the housing crisis combined.
Whomever is to be the next president of this country (I really pray that it isn't McCain, and I'm a Republican. A Republican with a conscience, that is.) is walking into a truly fucked-up scenario.
Another big thank you to the Clinton administration. It was his administration that deregulated the securities industry in '98/'99 (somewhere around there, I'm getting old, gimme a break, OK). Those controls had been put in place after the GREAT DEPRESSION. And, hey, look... it took us less than a decade without those controls and regulations in place to totally screw things up. Gotta love the global economy and the fact that our currency is backed by nothing of any value. We have tremendous national debt and trade deficits. Oh hell... you all know how we got into this mess.
Oh, hey... I got one of those DVD's that Clarion sent out in order to smear Obama. If you didn't receive one, it is titled "Obsession." The "O" in the title is the Islamic crescent and stars and the cover art definitely lends an "apocalyptic" tone. I didn't get to watch it. The perverse and twisted part of my nature really did want to watch it for purely vicarious reasons. The offspring (another Republican with a conscience) however, stated quite matter-of-factly, "You know we're not watching this, right?" as she deposited it in the trash on Saturday - the very same day that it was received in the mail. I really don't know where that bitch gets it from.... ~insert giggle and wink here~
Well, it's 5:50am... shower time.
Ciao!
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label environment. Show all posts
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Monday, May 28, 2007
It's back to work tonight. I'm doing a load of laundry before I head off to bed for a few hours of sleep. I should be doing some cleaning on the house, but I probably won't. I swept the kitchen, emptied the trash, started the load of laundry... I think cleaning the cat box will be the final official cleaning act of the day.
When I bought cat litter a few weeks back, I noticed that the bag that it was packaged in was some sort of woven-looking plastic type material. Almost like what the poly tarpaulins are made from. I took a look in the pet food and supplies asiles the other morning when I was at the Wal-Mart. Hey, Wally's is pretty empty at 5am on a Sunday, so there's room to move and time to peruse. I noticed that several brands of dog food and cat litters are being packaged in this type of plastic. Eeeek!!!
You know, I'm far from a treehugger, but this development is seriously not good! I guess they want some type of non-decomposing material to keep all of those disposable diapers company in the landfills for the next several thousand years. These plastic bags have seriously heightened my interest in being a good steward of the planet. I find myself looking for more and more things and ways to recycle and reuse.
Recycling isn't easy here in Cowlumbus. We don't have a recycling program in place. It's 2007 in a city with a metropolitan area population of close to 1.2 million people, and we don't have a recycling program. I tell that to friends from elsewhere in the country, and they are appalled. And, they should be.
Several years ago, rather than implement a recycling program, Cowlumbus decided to opt for building a trash burning power plant. It was shut down 2 or 3 years ago due to toxic emissions. So, now we have more trash and no electricity from this waste of tax payer money and still no recycling plan. The mayor has vowed that he will have one in place by 2009. Or was that 2011? Either way, you have to love it. Yes, that was meant as a sarcastic statement.
On my job, the amount of wasted paper that is just thrown into the trash dumpsters is incredible. I've been looking at doing something with papier mache, handmade papers, or a couple of other experiments that I'm thinking of. Plastic bottles and containers still present a quandry, but I've been mulling around a couple of different ideas.
I've been saving some different eco-type sites to my del.icio.us page the last couple of weeks. You can find me there under Karma_Dogma.
It isn't about being reactionary in response to alarming instances of wastefulness and environmental irresponsibility, it's about being proactive in order to make a difference in the situation.
When I bought cat litter a few weeks back, I noticed that the bag that it was packaged in was some sort of woven-looking plastic type material. Almost like what the poly tarpaulins are made from. I took a look in the pet food and supplies asiles the other morning when I was at the Wal-Mart. Hey, Wally's is pretty empty at 5am on a Sunday, so there's room to move and time to peruse. I noticed that several brands of dog food and cat litters are being packaged in this type of plastic. Eeeek!!!
You know, I'm far from a treehugger, but this development is seriously not good! I guess they want some type of non-decomposing material to keep all of those disposable diapers company in the landfills for the next several thousand years. These plastic bags have seriously heightened my interest in being a good steward of the planet. I find myself looking for more and more things and ways to recycle and reuse.
Recycling isn't easy here in Cowlumbus. We don't have a recycling program in place. It's 2007 in a city with a metropolitan area population of close to 1.2 million people, and we don't have a recycling program. I tell that to friends from elsewhere in the country, and they are appalled. And, they should be.
Several years ago, rather than implement a recycling program, Cowlumbus decided to opt for building a trash burning power plant. It was shut down 2 or 3 years ago due to toxic emissions. So, now we have more trash and no electricity from this waste of tax payer money and still no recycling plan. The mayor has vowed that he will have one in place by 2009. Or was that 2011? Either way, you have to love it. Yes, that was meant as a sarcastic statement.
On my job, the amount of wasted paper that is just thrown into the trash dumpsters is incredible. I've been looking at doing something with papier mache, handmade papers, or a couple of other experiments that I'm thinking of. Plastic bottles and containers still present a quandry, but I've been mulling around a couple of different ideas.
I've been saving some different eco-type sites to my del.icio.us page the last couple of weeks. You can find me there under Karma_Dogma.
It isn't about being reactionary in response to alarming instances of wastefulness and environmental irresponsibility, it's about being proactive in order to make a difference in the situation.
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