New Jersey: We're Greener Than They Think

I had a love/hate relationship with Down to Earth, but now that's it's gone I miss it!

"Nets have become the first major professional sports team to be accredited as CarbonNeutral?."

CarbonNeutral is a company. They "accredit" organizations.

So the Nets "purchase" carbon credits, and they get "accredited".

And while I'm sure it's good, it seems-- like points for a traffic violations-- you can pay off your carbon with CASH!!

Go Nets!!

Paying for a carbon offset seems a lot like buying an environmental indulgence.
Makes one feel good, does not change anything.

I suspect that lasermikey's brain is more than a little green from all the moss covering it.

Nerf!

what is plenty magazine..and who was on the cover of their swim suit issue.

Actually, having looked at Plenty's list, only three green spots are listed for every state. It's not that NJ is being given short shrift.

Kind of a dopey article. For SC one of the "green spots" is Clemson Blue Cheese, produced in caves near USC which stored gunpowder during the Civil War. How anything makes this estimable blue cheese "green" (even at $18.99 a lb.) is beyond me.

lasermike (in a one-piece, what a rip off!!!)

http://coolclimate.berkeley.edu/

The link I followed to Plenty's survey had most states with more than 3 hot spots, a few even went into the double digits. Titled "In Depth", it actually seemed quite shallow.

Nerf!

(credit one assist to me on the scorecard)

As an aside, I think cather should suspend the random and spontaneous preemptive lasermikey pot shots.

They put me in mind of an seven year old throwing dirt clumps at the young classmate he's too shy to speak with.

Why not save the witty comebacks & snide asides for actual responses to lasermikey postings? It's a bit demeaning and bully-like to be giving someone the raspberry all the time without even being provoked. I'm also tired of seeing it.

Respectfully submitted from afar, Former

From Plenty magazine's website...

"The leading magazine for eco living, offering a fun, irreverent look at today's environmental news and issues."

Because the only Green they want is the money you dufuses (dufi?) are going to spend reading articles such as "Top Ten Ways to Save the Planet," "Lifestyles of the Green and Famous," and my all-time favorite "The Extinction Blog." You want extinction? Come to Baristanet, we have several extinct critters posting daily...

Don't it make my blue cheese
Don't it make my blue cheese
Don't it make my blue cheese GREEN!

If your blue cheese is green, by the way, you might want consider disposing of it.

I think it's spelled "doofus" and "doofusses."

Waiting for mikey, former NJ guy, is one way to handle him, yes. But I think he quite appreciates the concept of a preemptive strike. If only because it calls to mind something he fears about US-Israel policy towards Iran.

It's also a good way to draw him out. Kind of like they said about Billy Jack, you just think of him and then he appears. If not exactly to the same effect.

Q.E.D.

"what is plenty magazine..and who was on the cover of their swim suit issue?"

It's greener to swim sans suit. Gunnison's anyone? :-)

I've been to Gunnison; it might be greener, it ain't pretty.

The headline is a model of denial. While I don't condone many of these silly rankings and accreditations, it would behoove all of you to give the fact of your profligate, non-green lifestyles some introspection. You make fun of carbon neutral rankings etc, but the planet is sliding into an abyss. In a few short years--perhaps months--your jokes will be tempered by the feeling of the skin crawling on the back of your necks as you realize what is happening, and will continue to happen, as long as you continue to deny.

Go Lightly.

New shop on South Fullerton (at the bottom of Church) with amazing variety of green products.