Pacific Spirit Marine Institute
Monday, August 18, 2008
Meet me in St. Louis Louis, Meet me at the fair!cotton Candy goes solar.
If they’re going to dump that crap it may as well serve a porpoise!
DuPont make waders that ‘breath underwater’. Haven’t they done enough already?
Three amigos, three pesticides not friendly to Salmon!
Pass me the rake, I have a little something here I need to bag up!
Cap-and-trade-program. Who is paying for their profits?
Will liquid coal quench our thirst?
I’ll buy it from you, then sell it to you…what do you think?
Labels: Alaska, Dead zones, Dupont, Green for a Day., Salmon, cap and trade, carbon-trading market, coal to liquid
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EcOLinks
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
A TV show from the 50’s used to pick one lucky woman per show to be “Queen for a Day”. It’s been called THE schlockiest game show of the era. It seemed like the entire world would tune in to see which lucky woman would win the ‘royal treatment’. The catch was each contestant had to tell their personal ‘hard luck story’. She would have to bare it all, in her own words in front of the ‘world’.
One at a time, four women would tell everyone her tragic story. The more tragic the story, the more burdened she was the better her chance of becoming ‘Queen for a Day”. The an applause meter was used to measure the enthusiastic applause of the audience. The most wretched of the contestants would be adorned with a crown, a dozen long stem roses, a flowing velvet robe and a night on the town, maybe even a new appliance or two. At the end of the show the host would say, “Make every woman a queen, for every single day!”
On this Earth day, the 38th we have seen, everyone from Oprah to QVC is dropping clues as to how we can applaud our Earth and make her green for a day. Retailers are using Earth Day as another ploy to sell more ‘earth friendly’ products. Local news shows are interviewing people that are avid recyclers. There is a lot of “earthy-ness” swirling around on this 38th Earth Day. At least half seems to be bound tightly with the idea that we still need to consume. Keep buying, but buy more earth friendly products.
I had my hair cut today and the owner of the salon actually gave me his ‘green tip’. He said I could use the hair that was cut off to plant in my garden. “It’s really good for it.” I planted my earth friendly vegetable garden yesterday sans the hair, but thanks anyway.
38 years after the first Earth Day, no one could dispute our Earth is in wretched condition. Is the condition of the planet worse than it was 38 years ago? Hers is a sad story. She’s just trying to hold up under the pressure…fast approaching the end of her rope.
I guess it never hurts to give a girl a break, even if it’s only for a day. Like the guy said, make every single day Earth Day.
Labels: Earth Day, Green for a Day., Queen for a Day
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Earth Day. Queen for a Day! Green for a Day. Just another Hallmark Holiday.
