December 6, 2007
Veggie-Powered Trucks -- And Employees?
Moving can take a real toll on the environment. Think of all the cardboard boxes, the truck(s), the frequent opening of doors to climate-controlled rooms and the products and solutions you use to clean the whole place down for the next tenants because you're an awesome person bucking for canonization.
Step one on reducing your impact -- the easiest step -- is recycling. And it's not too hard to find earth-friendly cleaning products. But the truck (if you can afford one)? Enter Mean Green Trucking & Transport, New York-based environmentally-friendly movers (and other earth-friendly companies). Brian from Mean Green says "The whole idea is to minimize pollution by using alternative energy. It is clear that if the whole trucking industry does the same then the catastrophic effects of our oil-obsessed culture would be greatly reduced. All of our trucks have been converted to run on used veggie oil which we acquire from various restaurants in NYC. The office runs completely on solar power from what I understand."
But Mean Green takes it to another level: "When I first started with them they were into hiring only vegetarians, but that since has changed,” Brian says. Vegetables, hide your children! Here comes Mean Green, the biggest vegetable and vegetable-oil consumin' company this side of the Hudson! Plus, they're going around delivering vegetables: "Lately I have been delivering vegan food to an elementary school in Harlem as part of a healthy school lunch program."
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Has anyone seen the show Miracle Planet on Discovery? It showed the earth's oceans being completely boiled off and almost every living thing dying. (This happened like millions of years ago. Anyway, this gigantic asteroid slams into earth making it so hot that there is rock vapor in the air. Like so hot that iron turns into gas and there is rock vapor all around. Worse than every nuclear bomb detonating at once.
But deep deep down in the crust some bacteria survived it, the temperature went down and life began again. They also showed like these bacterial spores frozen in time for like a million years and them reviving it in the lab.
Anyway, the whole point of that is that the earth is not in trouble. Life is not in trouble, its very resilient. New species will come as a result of higher temperatures. The human race is in trouble, and a few animal species that we think are cute too. (If the dung beetle were endangered, would anyone really care? Its not cute and it lives in and eats poo)
I try to recycle because throwing it in the garbage is just wasteful itll just go in the landfill and we won't be able to use the plastic anymore, that stuff could be ground up and reused. I also reuse stuff like bottles, because again throwing it away is wasteful, wastes money too.
So forget about Save the Earth. It's more like Save Humans and cute animals like dolphins, whales, and stuff like that. Actually if we want to make the world better for dolphins, global warming is probably a good thing.... bigger oceans for them.
saying stuff like "life will be ok in 30 million years" doesn't really make sense now does it?