2 posts tagged “ecology”
When Theodore Roosevelt was in office, he banned Christmas trees from the White House because he thought that Christmas tree harvesting was depleting our National forests. His two young sons brought one into the White House and were sent to the most famous conservationist of his time, Gifford Pinchot, for a lecture. Mr. Pinchot defended the cutting of Christmas trees by saying that for every tree cut down, two are replanted, which actually replenished the forests.
Greenlight Magazine, Issue 5, November 2006
So, go get your real live christmas tree, chanukkah bush or winter solstice fern and enjoy the fresh pine smell.
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?
