Comments on: Best & Worst Green Celebrities http://dissociatedpress.com/2009/05/best-worst-green-celebrities/ Fri, 04 Jul 2014 04:16:49 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: TeacherPatti http://dissociatedpress.com/2009/05/best-worst-green-celebrities/#comment-904 TeacherPatti Tue, 05 May 2009 16:25:57 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=933#comment-904 Hava, preach is sista!! I have heard that plane rides are worse than the car rides. I am an avid car driver (unlike everyone else in this Gd'd town [Ann Arbor]) and so I was delighted to bring that up to my friends who OMGWTFBBQ!!!!11!!1! couldn't conceive of driving !!!! to work, but fly all over the place. :) Hava, preach is sista!! I have heard that plane rides are worse than the car rides. I am an avid car driver (unlike everyone else in this Gd’d town [Ann Arbor]) and so I was delighted to bring that up to my friends who OMGWTFBBQ!!!!11!!1! couldn’t conceive of driving !!!! to work, but fly all over the place. :)

]]> By: Hava http://dissociatedpress.com/2009/05/best-worst-green-celebrities/#comment-903 Hava Tue, 05 May 2009 14:14:13 +0000 http://dissociatedpress.com/?p=933#comment-903 I have some issues with how they calculate all this... because there's no truly objective standards for this, every group basically measures it from their perspective of what matters. a couple of examples: 1. so called "vegan" shoes... unless they are made from recycled natural rubber (which high end ones are not) they are made from mad made materials that are synthetic. faux-leather...isn't that basically some kind of vinyl? a petroleum by-product that takes forever to decompose...and is toxic to produce in the first place? 2. people need to get from place to place. is a plane flying from coast to coast, carrying 200-300 passengers really worse than same 200-300 people all driving in their cars across country? I don't know... but I'd like to know... I have some issues with how they calculate all this… because there’s no truly objective standards for this, every group basically measures it from their perspective of what matters. a couple of examples:
1. so called “vegan” shoes… unless they are made from recycled natural rubber (which high end ones are not) they are made from mad made materials that are synthetic. faux-leather…isn’t that basically some kind of vinyl? a petroleum by-product that takes forever to decompose…and is toxic to produce in the first place?

2. people need to get from place to place. is a plane flying from coast to coast, carrying 200-300 passengers really worse than same 200-300 people all driving in their cars across country? I don’t know… but I’d like to know…

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