I’m still working away on my environmental consulting stuff. As May and Dan will attest to, some of my experiments have been more successful than others- the brown industrial paper towels get a thumbs down, the scratchy but functional recycled toilet paper gets one thumb up and one down, at least from me…
In any case, looking for a list of common househould objects to use for developing a spreadsheet, I came across this extensive but highly daunting list from CHEC. Man.
Honestly, I don’t
want to scare the hell out of people to get them to be environmental.
That’s why I’m supremely conflicted about the whole “your health will be
damaged unless you go green” angle. I think one of the big problems is
that, as far as I know, there is no hard core, well done research studies
around to back this stuff up. That means that I couldn’t say to someone
something like, “Do this, and your risk of cancer over the next five years
will DECREASE by 10%.” Or “Do this and your lung capacity will IMPROVE by
3% in the next year”. And I am totally against the ‘negative message’
alternative, which amounts to running around madly shaking household
objects at people and squawking “carcinogen! carcinogen! carcinogen!”. I
tried that when I was thirteen, with bad results. People just don’t need
the stress.
posted at 17:02 on Sun, 19 Sep, 2004 |
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