I'm going on a Carbon Diet
For the next eight weeks, Slate, in collaboration with eco-Web site treehugger, invites you to consider your own individual contribution to global warming—and challenges you to go on a carbon diet. The goal is to reduce the amount of CO2 that you put into the atmosphere by 20 percent. If you're a carbon glutton who doesn't bother to turn off the lights when you leave the house, you may find this diet pretty painless. (And just think of the fringe benefits—lower heating bills, poorer oil barons.) But even if you're already a svelte recycler or a carpooler, there's a lot more you can do.
I've been fat smashing for 6 weeks now (i think, it's all blurred together now and I actually cheated for the first time for real yesterday in grand fashion by having a full on Popeye's lunch of fried chicken wings, biscuits, and cajun rice -- the first fried food I've had over a month) and with that discipline (ignore the cheating) I figure I can handle an eco-green diet.
Don't you wanna play too?
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The Popeye's cheat was tasty but so not worth it. I felt gross and sick for the rest of the day. I ate it at 3pm and didn't eat for the rest of the day.