For this special day, I was going to tell you about my Starbucks experience, since they are offering free coffee today if you bring your own mug, I thought a cool way of celebrating Earth Day. I was going to tell you how virtually no one was cashing in on the offer, everyone was sitting around or walking out with their unrecyclable cups. That in their Global Responsibility Report, Starbucks stated goal is to serve 25%(!!!) of their beverages in reusable cups by 2015, etc..
BUT, now that I’m happily speedy, I instead would rather offer you a bit of Grist’s Sin Gallery, in which people attempt to feel better by confessing:
“I use toilet paper from old growth forests, because it’s softer than recycled.”
“I dress my passenger seat in a jacket and hat and then use the carpool lane.”
“I take the long way home just to charge up my cell phone”
“I burn styrofoam in my backyard BBQ pit because I’m not sure what else to do with it.”
“I love bacon.”
“I drink a lot of bottled water from France and Fiji.”
“I occasionally eat at restaurants where I don’t know where the food comes from or how it was produced.”
“I refuse to read that new book or watch that new documentary about how jacked up our food supply is because I don’t want to know.”
“We buy Kraft Singles cheese instead of slicing our own.”
“The idea of eating sustainably every single meal tires me.”
“Instead of taking the empty toilet paper roll to the recycling bin, I’ll often just throw it in the trash.”
“I want to clip bike commuters who slow down traffic with my side mirrors.”
“I love horsepower more than I love the environment.”
(Dear Grist and their readers, please forgive this sin of mooching.)
http://www.earthconfessions.com/#gallery
from Grist, a beacon in the smog http://www.grist.org/
^ ~ ^ ~ ^ ~ ^ ~ ^ ~ ^ ~ ^ ~ ^ ~ ^ ~ ^ ~ ^ ~
Barbara Hirsch, recording engineer, eco-person
“Unless someone like you cares a whole lot,
nothing is going to get better. It’s not.”
– The Lorax, Children’s book by Dr. Seuss
Past ecofacts can be found here:
http://greenproductsglobal.com/wordpress/
You can sign up to receive these weekly ecofacts here:
http://sustainability.ucsb.edu/
Tags: earth day sins, earth day starbucks, Grist sins, starbucks cups