Green Matters™
by Crissy Trask
Welcome to my blog where I share almost anything I think will help make greener living undeniable and simple. News, tips, insight and resources served up weekly. I also share my perspectives on others' perspectives and actions. Agree or disagree, I hope you will find them thought-provoking and a starting point for conversation.
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FEBRUARY 12, 2009 Inauguration Attendees Fail to Demonstrate Change
What happened to "Walk It In, Walk It Out?" When the crowds moved off the Washington mall following Obama's inauguation, they left behind 130 tons of litter. Yikes! I gotta say, I'm a little surprised. Afterall, this is a president who stands for personal responsibility and earth stewardship and who took steps to make this the "greenest" inauguration in history. Obviously more than a little debris would be expected from 2 million gatherers, but the volume of trash was so huge that it took a small army or Public Works' vehicles and men and women armed with leaf blowers and brooms working past dawn the next day to clean up every last piece of garbage.
When Obama campaigned on a message of change, he wasn't just talking about government, he was talking about Americans. An opportunity to change was ignored on inauguration day when the litterers in the crowd chose not to carry out their garbage, as encouraged to do by inauguration organizers, and instead dropped thier disposal cups, water bottles and food wrappers at there feet and went home.
I think it's safe to say that Mr. Obama's supporters, myself included, are expecting a lot from him, and we would be severely disappointed if he let us down. Let's not let him down.
2009 BLOG INDEX
Posts by Topic
Air Quality
6/8/09, Leaf Blowers:
An Environmental Nightmare
Cleaning
4/14/09, Don’t
Be So Quick to Blame the Low-Phosphate Detergent
Energy
7/6/09, It’s Summer
Time and the Livin’ is ‘Green’!
4/7/09, Window Films Can Lower Your
Cooling Bills and Your Tax Liability
3/14/09, Bundle Your
Gadgets
Food
10/27/09, Super
Freakonomics Authors Come Down Hard on Local Food
10/22/09, Hey Foodies, What
Are You Feeding Your Pets?
Green Terms
5/26/09, A Closer Look
at the Definition of “Recycled” and Some Other “Re”
Words
Plastic, and other Trash
7/13/09, Will a
Ban on Bottled Water Lad to Bad Beverage Choices?
4/22/09, Bottled Water
Gets Reinvented
3/2/09, Inefficient Packaging
Awards (No. 1)
Perspectives
9/14/09, Gullibility
is Derailing Progress
8/24/09, Check
Your Lifestyle Before Bragging About Recycling
8/19/09, Simple
Solutions Won’t Work Alone: Comprehensive is the True Agent
of Change
2/22/09, The Unhappiest Generation
2/12/09, Inauguration
Attendees Fail to Demonstrate Change
Reduce
8/5/09, Direct
Mail Marketers Want to Force Junk Mail on Us
3/21/09, Better
Yard Sales
1/25/09, Wasting Trees:
Why I Hate Junk Mail
Reuse
10/14/09, Wrapping
with Your Butcher
5/7/09, Craigslist Buyers are A Flakey Bunch on the Whole
Recycling
6/22/09, Not
Separating Your Recyclables from Your Trash Can Hurt
3/4/09, Recycle Your
Water Filters
Transportation
6/15/09, Avoid
Hot Car Syndrome to Reduce Emissions…and Discomfort
Water
3/27/09,
Water, Water Everywhere, but Not a
Drop…
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