It's Hard to be Green!

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Just wanted to report that every employee now tosses the aluminum cans into the convenient recycling barrel. Employees (3 now) share taking them home, and then to recycling.

A simple thing like that has benefits beyond the obvious. It creates an atmosphere of conservation and savings, in which employee become conscious of waste.

We use a lot of foam cups. Previously they had just been tossed into the trash hap-hazard. Now, without prompting, employees are stacking them into sleeves like they arrive. We have a lot fewer bags of trash now.

Companies that have Green program report that waste and excess is trimmed because of the new mindset, saving the company money.

A logical next step here would be for our regular customers to have their own insulated mugs, which some of them already do, to limit the use of the foam cups to guests.

There is a staff meeting today, so I will see if this topic comes up, and who brings it up.

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Even Kermit said, " it isn't easy being green."

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Stop the Screen Savers

According to 'Green Daily' ( Employer removes screen savers to save energy - Green Daily ): Telstra, the biggest phone company in Australia, has removed all the corporate screen savers from the 36,000 computers in its offices. What will happen? The change will cut tons of CO2, which they claim will be the equivalent of taking 140 cars off the road for a year. They claim that the crazy colors or bouncing graphics take about as much power as regular processing.

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When the UK and now the Netherlands decided that being green meant adding a new $100+ air ticket tax (which the UK now wants to raise to $200) on trans-Atlantic flights in order to discourage air travel to ''save the planet'', I had an absolute bellyful of big government ''greenshirts'' and as a direct result have no use for even garden variety enviromental measures like recycling. Before they started trying to goosestep over my right to travel, I used to regularly recycle. Not anymore! They can all get stuffed as far as I am concerned.

The whole CO2 scare is a bunch of hooey as well. Gore and his ilk refuse to debate their claims of manmade global warming because they know that a debate would expose the fact that they are bogus.

The President of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, has a book out, Blue Planet in Green Shackles in which he portrays the politicized enviromental movement as a budding totalitarian ideology with strong paralells to the Comunism that President Klaus grew up under, and which is the greatest threat to freedom, democracy, and prosperity in the world today.

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Dump coal power Go Green or 'we're toast

CO2 is a real problem, now 20 years after warning America about global warming, a top NASA scientists say the situation has gotten so bad that the world's only hope is drastic action.

NASA warming scientist: 'This is the last chance': Financial News - Yahoo! Finance

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On the other hand, last month the Oregon Insitute of Science and Medicine released a petition signed by over 31,000 American scientists who said CO2 had nothing to do with climate change. The debate is far from over, as the manmade global warming demagogues would have you beleive.

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Regardless of where you stand, someone will have to take action to save this planet (from itself). Just like someone will have to take action to solve the energy crisis.

Doing nothing will not be the answer to either.

If it is economically advantageous, and strictly optional, it seems petty to fault someone making an attempt to reuse our raw materials, while at the same time reducing the non-decomposing litter being sent to landfills.

Companies who have elected to go Green, have established a mindset of conservation, and their bottom line reflects it. Stated simply, they become more profitable by finding ways to reduce waste.

Now that we have an aluminum recycling bin, some customers have taken note of it, putting their aluminum cans in it. While those who don't wish to don't have to.

We had a staff meeting last week, and our recycling effort was not brought up, so it is not an issue.