Comments on: Green Your Friends – it’s ok, really! http://taoofchange.com/2009/08/11/green-your-friends-its-ok-really/ Fri, 21 Oct 2011 23:42:09 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Jolly ROger http://taoofchange.com/2009/08/11/green-your-friends-its-ok-really/#comment-2118 Jolly ROger Wed, 12 Aug 2009 13:08:11 +0000 http://taoofchange.com/?p=669#comment-2118 Absolutely, Green your friends. My mother-in-law, who would not consider herself an environmentalist, does separate trash from recyclables, and has recently acquired a few cloth bags. We should give kudos to public and private waste management organizations for supporting recycling programs, when it may not be a cash crop for them. I'll have to research that. There usually has to be a "what do I get out of it," before resources are budgeted for recycling. Check out you local city's recycling "do's" and "don't." Go a step "further." Green you enemies? or strangers, at least. Wear a t-shirt, for recycling, as a ice breaker. Carry recycling info cards, or printed material to hand out, like you might hand out your business card. Recycling IS our business. If you find you have a surplus of bags, give them to others. Make some bags. By all means, avoid plastic bag. At least paper bags can be recycled, or re-used, or shredded into compost. The ultimate recycle? Recycle yourself!!! Consider cremation!!! Your material can go into a special place, a garden, into the air or water. Thanks to Tracey for speaking out. We all have to power and responsibility to speak out also, so the messages can be echoed - frequently, strongly, passionately, and exponentially. Challenge for this week. Buy 5 bags from HT or Weaver St., and give them away!!! Cheap bags are ubiquitous. TAKE ACTION!!!!! Absolutely, Green your friends. My mother-in-law, who would not consider herself an environmentalist, does separate trash from recyclables, and has recently acquired a few cloth bags.
We should give kudos to public and private waste management organizations for supporting recycling programs, when it may not be a cash crop for them. I’ll have to research that. There usually has to be a “what do I get out of it,” before resources are budgeted for recycling. Check out you local city’s recycling “do’s” and “don’t.”

Go a step “further.” Green you enemies? or strangers, at least. Wear a t-shirt, for recycling, as a ice breaker. Carry recycling info cards, or printed material to hand out, like you might hand out your business card. Recycling IS our business. If you find you have a surplus of bags, give them to others. Make some bags. By all means, avoid plastic bag. At least paper bags can be recycled, or re-used, or shredded into compost.

The ultimate recycle? Recycle yourself!!! Consider cremation!!! Your material can go into a special place, a garden, into the air or water.

Thanks to Tracey for speaking out. We all have to power and responsibility to speak out also, so the messages can be echoed – frequently, strongly, passionately, and exponentially.

Challenge for this week. Buy 5 bags from HT or Weaver St., and give them away!!! Cheap bags are ubiquitous.

TAKE ACTION!!!!!

]]> By: Sami http://taoofchange.com/2009/08/11/green-your-friends-its-ok-really/#comment-2117 Sami Wed, 12 Aug 2009 12:33:51 +0000 http://taoofchange.com/?p=669#comment-2117 <em>"...if I’ve ever hesitated to speak out before..."</em> Really - hesitated? Is this the same TAO we are talking about...? ;-) “…if I’ve ever hesitated to speak out before…”

Really – hesitated? Is this the same TAO we are talking about…? ;-)

]]> By: phyllisdiehl http://taoofchange.com/2009/08/11/green-your-friends-its-ok-really/#comment-2100 phyllisdiehl Tue, 11 Aug 2009 20:25:14 +0000 http://taoofchange.com/?p=669#comment-2100 thanks chuck for your remarks, i think sometimes that this blog goes to the green group. but, as we can see it does go to people like you and me that are learning and trying to do better. and even an old dog can learn new tricks. good for you to get on with the program. p.s. thanks trace for giving chuck the spotlight today thanks chuck for your remarks, i think sometimes that this blog goes to the green group. but, as we can see it does go to people like you and me that are learning and trying to do better. and even an old dog can learn new tricks. good for you to get on with the program.

p.s. thanks trace for giving chuck the spotlight today

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