Recycle, Reuse, Reduce, and Rethink

Here is an interesting article from Wired Magazine. It's about Rethinking how green, our environmental practices are. This article reminds me of how I view Vitamin Water. You see Vitamin Water has vitamins and minerals right? So when you drink Vitamin Water, you think that you are doing your body a favor by filling it up with B12, Vitamin A, Vitamin C and the like. Actually the drink itself is basically sugar water, no better for you than a regular can of cook. Might as well wash down a multivitamin with a can of Coke. But Vitamin Water is neither here nor there. This is about rethinking green living and changing the way we approach thinking about the green lifestyle.

Here is one inconvient truth that changed the way I thought about green living.



Used cars, even a used hummer, are a better purchase than a new hybrid. The basic gist is that by the time a hybrid hits the road, due to the amount of energy required to produce it, when converting that energy into road miles, the hybrid is already 100,000 miles in debt. With a modest 10,000 miles per year, it would take almost a whole decade to repay that debt. It's this kind of thinking that helps us come to a better understanding and evaluation of our practices, and how we can make better choices in the way we approach our attempts to green.

In response to this article there is also a counterpoint for those who didn't notice it, it is also on the same link, but here is a direct link to it.

It's not just carbon, Stupid.

Enjoy!