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Happy Bi Earthday

April 22nd, 2008 · 7 Comments

EarthDay

Happy Earth Day Earth!
Today I am making several commitments to save the earth.

  1. I’m giving up Whaling! It’ll be tough, but I’ve heard it’s bad.
  2. I will shut down 2 of my coal plants. Completely.
  3. No more Oil. For today, unless it gets cold, or I need to go somewhere.
  4. I refuse to touch plastic, let alone use it.
  5. I will save the life of 3 seals.
  6. I will breathe less, thus emitting less Carbon.

What will you do?

But seriously, I feel like I need to plant a tree or something. It’s Earth Day! On Mother’s Day we make our moms cards and give them big hugs. On Father’s Day we BBQ (bad for the ozone) and give each other man-hugs, but for Earth Day, EARTH DAY what do we do?

Tags: The Good Life

7 responses so far ↓

  • 1 drew // Apr 22, 2008 at 10:37 am

    I see your resolutions, Whit, and I raise you. I resolve to do the following:

    1. Enslave whales and employ them in a massive seal-hunting operation. I keep the furs and the whales get to eat their adorable, tender meat. And then I shoot the whales.
    2. I will shut down 1 of my 2 coal burning backyard grills. Until our next big BBQ at least.
    3. I will burn or pour out any oil I see as an act of rebellion against our oil dependence.
    4. Plant Plastic Tree in my backyard.
    5. Regarding seals, please see above.
    6. I will replace my lungs and respiratory system with that of a tree, thus taking carbon out of the atmosphere and exhaling oxygen.

  • 2 Zoe // Apr 22, 2008 at 11:04 am

    Hi Whit! Funny, I loved this.
    Thanks for checking out my blog and commenting. You were my first!

    Zoe

  • 3 cait // Apr 22, 2008 at 5:25 pm

    I’ve never seen you give a man hug before whit, why don’t you show us how it’s done.

  • 4 Emlyn // Apr 22, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    Pour oil on a duck!

  • 5 Emlyn // Apr 22, 2008 at 8:17 pm

    hmm that embed didn’t work…
    http://www.break.com/index/fck-the-earth-day.html

  • 6 Whit Scott // Apr 23, 2008 at 9:55 am

    Thanks Emlyn, Great video {seesmic_video:{“url_thumbnail”:{“value”:”http://t.seesmic.com/thumbnail/0BksY2G3Tp_th1.jpg”}”title”:{“value”:”Thanks Emlyn, Great video ”}”videoUri”:{“value”:”http://www.seesmic.com/video/iLsn3eY1kD”}}}

  • 7 drew // Apr 23, 2008 at 12:24 pm

    Hello again. I do try to maintain conscious consumerism and be aware of the impact of my lifestyle, despite the jokes I made previously. And I know there are many positive changes I could make. And I suspect I’ve mostly taken steps backwards in the last year.

    I also wanted to link to this Seattlest Earth Day post regarding carbon footprints, which appear to be inescapably large and unsustainable for US citizens. Still, I agree with Cara-he that making smart choices is worthwhile, despite somewhat insurmountable problems and relatively low impact of those choices.

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