EARTH DAY, what are you doing for it?

[Yrys]

I spent the day asking the homeless, "If the outdoors is as magnificent as I'm told it is, how come you people aren't more fond of living in it?"

Because they don't have camping gear  :'( , or anything usefull to "live" out here!

 

[Fishbone Jones]

Because they don't have camping gear  :'( , or anything usefull to "live" out here!

Some probably would if they spent some of the hundreds of dollars made by the lucky ones that have a spot on Bay or Yonge, and a Timmies cup.

 

[40below]

Because they don't have camping gear  :'( , or anything usefull to "live" out here!

The guys here in KTown have some of the most elaborate tent cities you can imagine built in the urban wilderness where no one but dogwalkers and bums go. I actually know a couple of them for reasons I'm not going to go into except they're hard-luck cases who could have turned out better except for substance abuse or mental illness, but there's a sand point well above water where they bury their winter gear in four or five thicknesses of garbage bags and retrieve it in October, and bury their summer gear in the same hole, then cover their markings. Their fieldcraft is if nothing else, impressive. 

 

[daftandbarmy]

Enjoying some British humour..

I'm definitely not a GreenPeace fan but, if they keep this up, I might start to feel bad about the sinking of the Rainbow Warrior one day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4LKHHjA7-y0

 

[Mike Baker]

It was earth day?

 

[Haletown]

I bought a new bumper sticker for the wheels.

"Earth First !  We'll log the other planets later"

 

[OldSolduer]

I drove my GMC Sierra by myself (no passengers,)
Tossed out loads of garbage for the landfill in plastic bags.
Am I a bad person?

 

[daftandbarmy]

I bought a new bumper sticker for the wheels.

"Earth First !   We'll log the other planets later"

I have been looking for those for years. Where did you find it?

 

[Haletown]

I have been looking for those for years. Where did you find it?

  online sources  . .


  http://www.amazon.com/Earth-first-other-planets-later/dp/B000VWO1CA

 

[ghyslyn]

It's my birthday! So I used some time in lieu I had banked to take the day off from work.

Happy belated birthday stryte!

 

[Yrys]

Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says

If the ecosystems become to much inbalance, the human specie and a few others will be in peril, planet earth will continue its merry-go trip
in the universe, and some other specie will became the predominant one (I'm betting some insect one, as scientists predict every mamal over
3 pounds will become instinct).

Why bother ?

"But what good is that when virtue itself is quickly becoming a term of derision? And not just on the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal
or on the lips of the vice president, who famously dismissed energy conservation as a “sign of personal virtue.” No, even in the pages of The
New York Times and The New Yorker, it seems the epithet “virtuous,” when applied to an act of personal environmental responsibility, may be
used only ironically. Tell me: How did it come to pass that virtue — a quality that for most of history has generally been deemed, well, a virtue
— became a mark of liberal softheadedness? How peculiar, that doing the right thing by the environment — buying the hybrid, eating like a
locavore — should now set you up for the Ed Begley Jr. treatment."

"For us to wait for legislation or technology to solve the problem of how we’re living our lives suggests we’re not really serious about changing
— something our politicians cannot fail to notice. They will not move until we do. Indeed, to look to leaders and experts, to laws and money and
grand schemes, to save us from our predicament represents precisely the sort of thinking — passive, delegated, dependent for solutions on
specialists — that helped get us into this mess in the first place. It’s hard to believe that the same sort of thinking could now get us out of it."

 

[ghyslyn]

Humans nearly wiped out 70,000 years ago, study says

If the ecosystems become to much inbalance, the human specie and a few others will be in peril, planet earth will continue its merry-go trip
in the universe, and some other specie will became the predominant one (I'm betting some insect one, as scientists predict every mamal over
3 pounds will become instinct).

Why bother ?

"But what good is that when virtue itself is quickly becoming a term of derision? And not just on the editorial pages of The Wall Street Journal
or on the lips of the vice president, who famously dismissed energy conservation as a “sign of personal virtue.” No, even in the pages of The
New York Times and The New Yorker, it seems the epithet “virtuous,” when applied to an act of personal environmental responsibility, may be
used only ironically. Tell me: How did it come to pass that virtue — a quality that for most of history has generally been deemed, well, a virtue
— became a mark of liberal softheadedness? How peculiar, that doing the right thing by the environment — buying the hybrid, eating like a
locavore — should now set you up for the Ed Begley Jr. treatment."

"For us to wait for legislation or technology to solve the problem of how we’re living our lives suggests we’re not really serious about changing
— something our politicians cannot fail to notice. They will not move until we do. Indeed, to look to leaders and experts, to laws and money and
grand schemes, to save us from our predicament represents precisely the sort of thinking — passive, delegated, dependent for solutions on
specialists — that helped get us into this mess in the first place. It’s hard to believe that the same sort of thinking could now get us out of it."

Spell-check please, reading this gave me a headache.

 

[daftandbarmy]

And I said 'Pardon'?

 

[HItorMiss]

I pan on buring some tires andreleasing a bunch of CFC's....Like a great TV show said...

"Mother nature declared war in us a long time ago and now that she is loosing, she wants Mercy?... Bah!"