Aahhhh. Another beautiful fall day. Another leaf blower. BZZZZZZZZ!
Solution? Rake.
Suggested New Thought Bubble: Wait a minute, what am I doing with this silly, ineffectual, dirty-emissions gadget? I’m an American, I should be conserving gasoline*, not squandering it. We’re at war in the Middle East! What was I thinking? My parents would have known better during WWII.
(* or electricity for plug-in leaf blower owners.)
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Fidelity Reduces Paper Use; Contracts Signed In Cyberspace
By John DeFore
More and more corporate emails these days end with text blurbs urging the recipient not to print messages out unless absolutely necessary. Hard copies of documents are a must in some instances, of course, but they’re becoming less and less necessary thanks to some efforts to finally make good on the computer [...]
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Tags: · conservation, Fidelity, Paper
The World’s Water Needs: A Global Perspective
By Shermakaye Bass
Photo: © Holger Gurski | Dreamstime.com
The well was dry beside the door,
And so we went with pail and can
Across the fields behind the house
To seek the brook, if still it ran; . . .
- Robert Frost’s “Going for Water”
Every year, more about the world’s worsening water crisis is revealed: Who has potable water, [...]
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Tags: · conservation, Pasquale Steduto, sanitation, United Nations, water
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