9 Ways To Greenify And Ruin Your Christmas
Posted on December 8, 2008
Is there anything the climahysterics/enviroweenies won’t do to try and ruin, well, everything? Via Metropolis at Metrotown, which is a huge shopping area in Burnbay, British Columbia.
1. Take your own re-usable shopping bags with you when you do your Christmas shopping. Around 125,000 tonnes of plastic packaging are thrown away over Christmas. (this should make people think you are a street bum, er, sorry, ‘local displaced homeowner’)
2. Avoid packaging – Canadians create 60,000 tons of packaging waste on Christmas. (”Mommy, I can see what all my gifts are. Are you lazy?”)
3. Send e-cards or cards made from post-consumer paper. Last year we sent around 744 million Christmas cards. If all these were recycled instead of thrown away, it would help to save the equivalent of 248,000 trees. (Because it is the season to be cheap)
4. Wrap your gifts in reusable bags, old cartoons or magazines, Canadians go through 40 square kilometres of virgin forest wrapping paper every year! (”Mommy, have you been drinking again? Do I need to call AAA for you?”)
5. If you can, opt for seasonal local food and drink to cut down on `food miles’, which contribute to climate change. (actually not the greatest of ideas)
6. All the energy we use to power our Christmas lights could power one million homes! Use LED lights, they consume 95% less energy than regular lights. (Know what else could power a million homes? More nuclear plants)
7. Ask your guests to BYOP. If you’re having a party, avoid serving food and drink on disposable plates and cups and if you don’t have enough, ask your friends to help out. (Let me know how how long you still have friends. Oh, and what your cleaning bill is. Think anyone is going to “bring their own plate?”)
8. More than 8,000 tonnes of wrapping paper will be used on Christmas presents, using the equivalent of approximately 50,000 trees. Last Christmas, DEFRA estimated that 83 square km of wrapping paper ended up in UK rubbish bins. (Well, that isn’t much of a green tip, so, let me finish by saying, recycle it if possible, or burn it in the fireplace. Consider buying easily burned wrapping paper if you do have a fireplace.)
9. If you buy a real tree, and more than 6 million of us do, check with your local council if they will recycle it. Many local authorities grind the trees into wood chips and use them to mulch gardens or parks, instead of dumping the trees in landfill sites. (Now this is a good idea, one I whole heartedly agree with. Better yet, get it ground down for use on your own property.)
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#3.
Paper is made exclusively from farmed pulpwood trees.
Of course these nuts will have you believe that those christmas cards and wrappings are the result of some rainforest getting mowed down.
Let’s head back to the past with the Progressives!!! Get an Orange for Christmas, and enjoy it by candlelight in the cold!! Is anyone else holding their sides laughing at these idiots?
If they ever get their way, and you sheep who voted for Obama find yourself getting your donkey-drawn buggy dropped off and your cars removed by the State Transportation Enforcement and Environment Protection Anti-Global Warming Task Force (Director Salary -278,435 ; Assistant Director Salary -234,577; Associate Director Salary -203,424; Regional Directors Salary (12) 197,294 etc. etc.) will you feel like you have “progressed”? Or will you feel like my ancestors in 1900 who got tired of donkeys, emigrated to the USA, and lent their brain power and work ethic to the development of cars, trains, and planes to replace the donkey cart? Obama so smart he gonna bring it back! HAAAAAA! Oh wait, you won’t have anywhere left to go! Enjoy!