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Solar panels, hybrid cars, and recycling garbage are only scratching the surface

 

It’s easy to regurgitate what the the media deems as green worthy for this day. It’s not easy bringing my authentic self to you, sharing my most heartfelt life changing experiences and synthesizing them so we can learn together. So lets briefly hit on what most green media spent most of their time talking about, then we can get to the lesson.

gosselin_hawaiiJon and Kate Gosselin, the heads of the crowded Pennsylvania household featured on the hugely popular TLC show, have recently made a push to have a more Earth-friendly lifestyle.

Some TV experts have applauded the efforts.

“This woman not only raises a family of eight kids — she also recycles, she buys organic food whenever possible, she buys local food whenever possible and she’s overcome a lot of the obstacles a lot of people are still tripping on,” gushed Sarah Snow, a green-living expert and TV host, during an appearance on the show.

On the converse other green bloggers are sounding off! The only green they see is caused by nausea over Jon and Kate’s attempts.

various quotes from environmental blogs today
“Sure, the family might have installed solar panels and made a fuss over recycling, but with eight little carbon footprints running around on the Earth, America’s most televised family is hardly non-consumptive, charge some greenies.”

“No matter what this family does, it could NEVER go green,” writes one blogger on Treehugger.com. “The most green families are those with one child or none. So this family has absorbed the CARBON FOOTPRINT OF 8 FAMILIES. This is very greedy!!!”

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Top 10 wild ways to go green

The restaurant I enjoyed today with family for lunch needs help. If using up too much unecessary space on paper is not green, then we know what Tahoe Joe’s is doing on shier menu is not green. Of course, I’m having fun and awakening my green intuition as to what is on the fringes of being a good green company or citizen.

So, nonetheless, I look up to the top right corner of the menu and it says, “Lunch served Monday thru Sunday”…hmmmm….isn’t that EVERYDAY! I’m just saying here…green is about efficiency and authentic conservation of everything including words.

Yes, I sound extreme or wild, and I’m in one of those silly moods again staring at this computer for too many hours and now I don’t FEEL green. Does a case of retinal trauma from gazing at this monitor of mine for too long mean I get sympathy from you for not feeling green at the moment? No. oh, we’ll I tried in my wild sort of way. Then it got me thinking what other wild ways could we go green. taiwansolarcar1

Wild ways to go green? I’ll start and you jump in for smiles and giggles.

1. Child eco-powered vehicles– are you forever running your kids from place to place and want to try and cut down on your carbon footprint? Why not put a cycle rack on top of your car and then attach a chain to the axle! The kids get exercise, you get to make sure they arrive safely from the comfort of the car and the whole thing is better for the environment – it’s a win-win situation

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Driving the green freeway of love a little slower now

As a new guy to green, driving the green freeway of love, well… my speeding habits may be catching up to me.

Yesterday I was just talking to a friend about Sammy Hagar and his smash hit from the 80′s, “Can’t drive 55″.
The rock star was also the first person to update the first roadway speed sign of millions across California that went up 10 miles per hour from 55 to 65 in the mid 80′s.sh-55

“Hey Sammy, can you come back out to drop those signs back to 55?  Looks like his song could soon live up to what is a more safe and green approach to saving lives.  The news is the U.K. wants to lower their speed limits by 10 miles per hour on the freeways and another 10 mile an hour reduction on two lane roads.

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Small is not always “Green” by Jerry Hart

What a wonderful Mother’s Day, even though it wasn’t all that green.
I launched this blog a week ago and it’s been an exercise of shifting my mindset.

I want us to connect and appreciate how funny life can be when you simply reflect the reality of your green day, good, bad, indifferent.

Yesterday was an eye opener with my brother, a well-educated walking Wikipedia of life, who was helping me understand what car to buy and why?

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