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Archive for the 'environment' Category

Recycling is unimportant

Sunday, January 20th, 2008

So here’s the thing: at work we have two different recycling bins, one blue and one silver. Complicated rules govern what can go into which: nothing as simple as cans in one, paper in the other. Oh no. The one takes only “clean” recyclables, while the other is allegedly happy with dirty food wrappers. (But you’re still supposed to rinse out cans: yeah, right.) There are a lot of other rules too: I can’t remember them offhand.

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Print this post and grow more trees

Wednesday, February 21st, 2007

I’ve been getting a snide little footer in some of my emails recently:

Do you really need to print this email? Please consider the environment and save a tree.

Which makes about as much sense as saving wheat by not eating bread. Paper manufacturers plant trees so that they will have something to make paper out of: cutting paper consumption will thus lead to fewer trees being planted. So if you love trees, print this post! And anything else you want to print.

Unintended consequences

Monday, November 28th, 2005

You can ignore markets, but that doesn’t mean that markets will ignore you. It seems that green legislation in the developed world, enacted in a misguided attempt to force consumers to use more “environment-friendly” energy, is encouraging the destruction of the rain-forests so beloved by the greenies.

Heh.