50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth
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There’s a review of this book that goes by the title “50 Simple Things You Can Do to Save the Earth” and curiosity got the better of me to get to know how I have personally impacted on the future of our planet.
But then it has been around with us since just before Earth Day 1990. A lot of water have since passed under the bridge. Save the forests; there is a website and a rave blog too: 50 Simple Things.
Eco-friendly shopping, for instance, may be fashionable, but critics have argued it won’t reduce global warming. What has been the role of the Green Movement in ecological modernization?
Since the early 1980s, green as a political ideology championing ecological and environmental goals, has given the face of the Green movement a newer look, but not without the usual controversies: global warming, biofuels, or “agro-fuels” in more fluent eco-speak, solar-powered future, etc.
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After a lull of nearly 18 years, issues and terms such as Green Building, Green Economics, Fair Trade, Green Marketplace, Genetically Engineered or Organic have subtly found their way in this new edition list too. You can even join an eco-consumers association as one thing to save the earth; in fact you are implored to do so. Membership in the Organic Consumers Association will help mobilize one million consumers to end Monsanto’s global corporate terrorism. Monsanto’s Global Corporate Terrorism? How many of Washington’s white collar bureaucrats have their fingers deep in the cookie jar?
At #24, Green Building is not doing badly at all, or the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea at #40. But how about Green Collar Jobs at #50?
Will you vote for green? Sharing a collective term with the Green Party or Greenpeace can be as good as nothing. How come political green groups have failed to win significant levels of the vote in democratic societies despite a rapid growth of public support, and membership of environmental organizations running into many millions worldwide? The headline: Dubya Goes 100% Green will make me laugh, haha.
If you are not driving an electric car, you are probably not green enough. By the way, how far green can it go? Should we all have an environmentally-friendly funeral when the time comes? Toast to the Death of Green, to Save the Earth!
Further reading:
Joel Makower’s Blog
Photo Credit:
WoodleyWonderWorks via Flickr
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