Plague/Virus, Species Collapse, Biology Breach, Recovery, and more.
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Easy Action: Paper towel smarts You have three drops of coffee on the counter? Don't use an entire sheet -- just tear off a three-inch square. Better still, have a small cloth for those little things. Wash it once a month or so, unless something goopy's on it. Medium Action: Hand-some Make birthday and other celebratory cards, and even christmas presents, by hand. For example, a "safe book," or a collage-card, or a personalized yo-yo, rather than another cheap nothing that will get thrown away. What a savings in energy and financial outlay! Serious Action: Carrot steak, rare, please Become a vegetarian. Among the best things to do to decrease the carbon, energy, and other "footprints" is to shift from energy-intensive nutrition to energy-efficient nutrition. Systems Development: True Cost taxation A system for determining the "true cost" of an item, as a "Damage Tax" -- the unreplacable raw materials used, plus the transportation CO2 costs (shipping, air freight, moving to store, setting up for sale), plus the likely remediation costs for toxic production, plus the costs of eventual disposal of the product, plus the actual cost of production. In this way, even if they produce toxic horror in China without apparent costs, the Damage Tax raises the overall consumer price paid, evening the field. The Damage Tax would go to fund environmental recovery. |
Balms for the Spirit: Music: Traffic: Low Spark of High Heeled Boys Eminently boppable, cheer-inducing. Poem: Commerce as a vehicle From factory-farmed chicken to old-growth lumber to gas-guzzling cars, many of the things we buy support destructive industries. But businesses, governments, and concerned citizens can harness this same purchasing power to build markets for less-hazardous products, including fair-traded foods, green power, and fuel-cell vehicles. -- Worldwatch Institute "State of the World 2004" report Sites: |
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