I kept my tach below 3000 RPM!

Scott

After the crappy day I had providing IT support today, I'm currently enjoying a cold beer and watching American Idle with the kids.

I think it is Earth Week?

Not a damn thing different.

A bunch of people from my office went outside and walked around the building and picked up trash for an hour or so... I forgot about it and just kept on working. Too bad b/c it was a free hour to walk around outside on the clock!

I took a two hour + flight for a business trip and I'll fly back tomorrow.

Somewhat offsets the Earth Day post I put on my site last week, though I think that I'm still ahead.

For every animal a vegetarian didn't eat, I ate three.

For every animal i didn't eat i needed to eat three more heads of lettuce to fill the void.
I doubt that helps the earth either but i compost it like mad!

I kissed the sky.

Launched 2 aircraft that combined burned about 18,000 gallons of JP-8.

I took Bean-o before dinner.

Gives new meaning to reducing one's carbon "foot"print

Earth Day?? Makes you feel good doesn't it?? How about an Earth Life?? That's what I'm living!! We are all one, and an Earth Day is slowing us down.

Didn't drive my car. Ate a vegetarian dinner (bland!) because a visiting friend is a vegetarian. Took public transit to the theater in the evening.

Thought about whether I should buy a Honda Insight Hybrid, and whether the lithium batteries will crap out after five or fewer years, just like laptop batteries do (more like 3 years if you're lucky).

Cheers,
Alan

I'm with the crazy guy in the wheelchair. What are you doing for the next 364 days?

Do you charge your wheels with electricity from a green electric company?

We had cake.

I don't understand this "think about the Earth one day of the year" idea. Then again, I don't really get the "turn your lights out for an hour before it gets dark" thing either.

Vegetarian certainly doesn't have to be bland! Vegan does.

(also not true)

I don't mind vegetarian meals sometimes...like a nice garden salad with black olives, roasted peppers, parmesian cheese, then sprinkled with a couple of barbecue chicken breasts...

Don't forget the bacon. Many countries consider bacon a vegetable.

If the meat you are eating gets it's life from eating grass/hay, etc., all the time, by one degree of seperation you could be considered a vegetarian.

That's better than six degrees of separation from Kevin Bacon.

Since the grass is green, that makes the by-product (meat) green, too. Right?

I know, I know - Thou shalt not kid thyself - (The 11th Commandment).

Scott

Actually I do , my house is powered by bullfrog power!

Natural gas?

Wind (20%) and low-impact hydro-electric (80%).

I imagine the mix changes when it's real windy out

http://www.bullfrogpower.com/clean/producers.cfm

You got me there, but I do have Trane's most efficient furnace (XV90), a HRV, and an instantaneous water heater.

Edit-I thought you meant natural gas as opposed to electric baseboard

You're more mature than I thought you were. Natural gas...bullfrogs...natural...gas...bullfrogs...croak...

I spent a lot of the afternoon in traffic.. I guess i fail! haha

I bought a new weed whacker (string trimmer, for those technical folks) that's 'greener' than my old one.

Yay!

Oh, and I rode my motorcycle to work. 45mpg rather than my car's in-town 24mpg. Does that count for something?

Traffic for me as well.

Boring.

Cool stuff on Bullfrog power!

Earth is going to be just fine... it's the human race that needs to take care of itself if they want to carry on living on Earth.

Really? Thanks, I feel much better now.

I didn't do anything special for Earth Day, so it was about the same as any other holiday for me. I don't own an evil vehicle, though, if that counts for anything. It used to be the mark of a loser, but now I get as much mileage (ha ha) out of not driving as I can. I pretend it's a matter of conviction, not that I'd rather spend my money on HT stuff.

Hey, that was just Dan's clever way of saying you're Jack's contemporary.

Absolutely. That's about the same percentage difference as me keeping the tach below 3000 RPM as opposed to below 6000 RPM. On my 54 mile round trip on a 340 HP V8 I figure I saved a good half gallon of petrol.
Now then, when gas was $4/gal, I tried really hard to keep it below 2200 RPM. I was getting 22-23 MPG in a C300 with a HEMI.

Scott

You wouldn't necessarily think it, but motorcycles actually pollute far more than cars. The average motorcycle releases 10 times more pollutants into the air than the average car. So unless you're using 10 times less fuel than a car over a given distance, you'd actually do the Earth a bigger favor in your car.

First electric street motorcycle

For every 'Ying' there is a 'Yang'.

There is no Ying (unless you're a rapper.)

Regarding pollution and motorcycles, I recall there was an article in the Toronto Star a few months ago and they made mention of the fact that they were really bad for pollutants, the worst I believe were those scooters...I think they said they were actually about 15 to 20 times worse than cars/trucks/suvs per mile mainly due to the fact(here anyway) that they weren't subject to the much more stringent requirements put on autos.

I was stuck at a conference all day. Didn't have a lot of options. However, I was glad to see that everything was on recycled paper, including the compostable packaging for the boxed lunches served during a seminar I attended.