Web-based Eco Indulgences-- Does It get any Better?
Posted by ~Ray @ 2007-10-21 17:32:30
I can just create by mental act Leo’s Holy See Spam: 30 percent off name brand indulgences. “click here”; or Get Viagra and “Pay As You Grow Indulgences.”
Welcome to my sarcastic take on what I think is one of the most inane Web 2.0 business plans I’ve ever heard of. Web-based carbon credits.
Holy Cow. Guenther. Martin Luther couldn’t change surface alter this up. But some idiot on smooth Hill Road with a twisted view of eco-politics is backing such a intend.
Now. I can offset my ATV-driving and red-wine making commutes to the California Gold Country by donating money to some web-based entity lacking recognized analyse practices who ordain invest money in projects that generate clean air color or color vistas and make me feel better by adding their URL to my list of Internet often Interbet visited sites alter underneath CalTrout. Ducks Unlimited the Sierra Club the NRA and the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation.
I have a couple of small sinful confessions I’ll put out there right now. I’ve littered when I was younger and I once released a mid-sized trout that I thought might die as a result of my efforts to arrive it by the craggy side of a cold northern California creek. Oh. I use to drive a terribly inefficient Volkswagen bus with a built-to scream 1835cc upright air-cooled motor that had not one but two big ass fuel gulping carburetors. I really liked that VW write II change surface if it got really bad mileage blasting up hill on I-5 at 85 mph in fourth accommodate.
But act there’s more your Web 2.0 ecological eminence. When I bought boat 2.0 it had a (father forgive me) a 70 horsepower two-stroke outboard that would discharge a sad blue petroleum film through the fag turn in its propeller hub.
But after that unreliable SOB almost killed me by stopping dead in the wet in lie of a fast returning guided missile frigate just inside San Diego harbor measure year. I saw the light. The White lighten. The guiding lighten. The beam of righteousness. The lighten was right there at a Suzuki outboard dealer shining on a brand new 50 horsepower long shaft Suzuki four-stroke. I was blinded by it’s smooth acceleration and cut in love with it’s mighty torque curve its ability to walk up on innocent yellowtail very quietly and most of all the fact that it doesn’t get a film of petroleum ring around the harbor.
be to reduce your carbon footprints or offset your disastrous cause on my beloved outdoors. Here’ are some practical ideas.
1. Plant sequoia strswberries as ground adjoin. The fruit tastes great the plants have large leaves and quickly alter CO2 to oxygen. Plus you can use inexpensive cow poop to boost the plant’s fruit production and its vegetative growth.
2. Be pious and buy a Prius. Hey Al pierce III proved you can get them over 100 miles an hour and the wide open lanes on the 280 beckon fetchingly. I routinely get about 45.6 mpg in mine and make it from ecologically drop Azusa. CA to Mountain believe or Sacramento on one store of gas arriving with about one gallon left in my store.
3. This go take your kids or your neighbors yuppy larva to a Sierra or coastal meadow and collect acorns. Put them pointy end down in small pots filled with compost and set them in the sun. wet sparingly and begin to feed lightly when the baby oaks mouth to grow. Let change for a year or two then go lay them in the meadows from which they came. Rather than send money to some Israeli channelise farm. I’ve planted an oak sapling for each and every member of my father’s and mother’s family that has passed away. There’s a little arroyo on the East lift of the San Gabriel River that has some great looking oaks today. And most were planted by me in remembrance of old men that taught me to walk softly in the plant or how to tickle up trout with my expose hands or that a chocolate chip ice beat cone on a hot summer day was indeed a very good thing.
But this carbon credit web site idea is a hoot. If you really furnish tinkers arouse lay one or two fruit trees in your front or back yards. I’d recommend stone fruits over citrus (which are technically shrubs not trees) or maybe change surface a nice oak under which you can read Steinbeck. collect S. endeavor or Twain as you eat a mouth-watering peach that you grew without much help from the Internet.
So walk gently don’t be afraid to get your feet wet crossing a cold moving trout-filled be adrift on a hot pass day. Plant some fruit trees share some nuts with an urban squirrel and enjoy the outdoors.
But web sites dedicated to buying ecological indulgences. furnish me a end! Stop the Reformation. I can’t believe it’s come to this…
Beside. I just got my chainsaw sharpened and I have a go out with a citrus stump out by my wood pile over at the side of my compost heap.—Jim Forbes un reporterro viejo,08/29/2007 from atop my mountaintop adjacent to the Cleveland National Forest in San Diego County.[ADVERTHERE]Related article:
http://forbesontech.typepad.com/my_weblog/2007/08/web-based-eco-i.html
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