Comments on: It’s Earth Day and we’re all trashed http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/ Tue, 22 Dec 2009 04:00:12 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: Mari http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-684014 Mari Thu, 23 Apr 2009 16:03:28 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-684014 Yesterday, on the Oprah Winfrey Show they showed the garbage dump in the Pacific Ocean that has grown to the size of Texas! We need our Oceans for our survival. There is a way to stop junk mail (its on the Oprah.com site). And I am BEGGING people......... PLEASE STOP USING PLASTIC BAGS!! Carry your own cloth ones! Its an EASY thing to do. If we would ALL do something, however small, it adds up. One statistic that was stunning, was that WE, throw out ...... 43 TONS of FOOD each day! Sad. Peace everyone & please...... remember NO plastic bags! Yesterday, on the Oprah Winfrey Show they showed the garbage dump in the Pacific Ocean that has grown to the size of Texas! We need our Oceans for our survival.

There is a way to stop junk mail (its on the Oprah.com site). And I am BEGGING people.........

PLEASE STOP USING PLASTIC BAGS!! Carry your own cloth ones! Its an EASY thing to do. If we would ALL do something, however small, it adds up.

One statistic that was stunning, was that WE, throw out ...... 43 TONS of FOOD each day! Sad.

Peace everyone & please...... remember NO plastic bags!

]]> By: njay http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-683719 njay Thu, 23 Apr 2009 05:39:01 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-683719 this would be a great dvd for teachers to have access to....yet at $149. plus a $10.s/h........too much $$ for a very humble teacher who makes meager wages.......can you imagine a cabinet member for education making it possible for every public school to show this dvd to every student in America? now thats empowering...... small town in nm this would be a great dvd for teachers to have access to....yet at $149. plus a $10.s/h........too much $$ for a very humble teacher who makes meager wages.......can you imagine a cabinet member for education making it possible for every public school to show this dvd to every student in America? now thats empowering......

small town in nm

]]> By: Melissa, Colorado http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-683676 Melissa, Colorado Thu, 23 Apr 2009 04:26:06 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-683676 Did you know that you could shred that junk mail and take the shredded pieces to a local pet shop to be used in the cages of cute lil' puppies? Hm...I don't know about poop-filled plastic bags or deep-sea exploration, but I DO know that baby wipes are evil and so are paper towels being used for cleaning. Cut up old rags, it's cheaper! Noggin says every little bit helps, so we're using shampoo bars and planting our own herbs. Did you know that you could shred that junk mail and take the shredded pieces to a local pet shop to be used in the cages of cute lil' puppies? Hm...I don't know about poop-filled plastic bags or deep-sea exploration, but I DO know that baby wipes are evil and so are paper towels being used for cleaning. Cut up old rags, it's cheaper! Noggin says every little bit helps, so we're using shampoo bars and planting our own herbs.

]]> By: Dave of Detroit http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-683478 Dave of Detroit Thu, 23 Apr 2009 03:07:38 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-683478 When you have a throw away society. there's a lot of trash. What can be done? Just as starters, teach people to be earth friendly-recycle, buy earth friendly products, get away from batteries-that's a real hoot, and try to get things that will last and appreciate rather than get tossed every 4 or 5 years. When is the last time you reupholstered instead of throwing the old furniture out and here's another shocker, a land phone is cheaper and can't be listened to without a wire tap authorization-not so your cellphone, text messages can be recorded and backlogged for years with the telcom provider. It would be great if products lasted for years a sthey used to but the emphasis of the business world is constant update trends that deliberately focus on making everything out of date so you will buy the new updated version.I don't think there is a cure -sorry! When you have a throw away society. there's a lot of trash. What can be done? Just as starters, teach people to be earth friendly-recycle, buy earth friendly products, get away from batteries-that's a real hoot, and try to get things that will last and appreciate rather than get tossed every 4 or 5 years. When is the last time you reupholstered instead of throwing the old furniture out and here's another shocker, a land phone is cheaper and can't be listened to without a wire tap authorization-not so your cellphone, text messages can be recorded and backlogged for years with the telcom provider. It would be great if products lasted for years a sthey used to but the emphasis of the business world is constant update trends that deliberately focus on making everything out of date so you will buy the new updated version.I don't think there is a cure -sorry!

]]> By: Alicia, Texas http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-682305 Alicia, Texas Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:55:04 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-682305 I'm happy to see that methane is actually mentioned as a problem! Too often the focus of environmentalist messages or other adverts by the 'green movement' focuses on CO2, but the science backing up CO2 is weak compared to the evidence for the impact methane has on heat trapping. Recycling is brilliant! Composting is awesome! Growing up we always had a garden to grow our own veggies in and we composted left overs to re-feed our soil. It was neat! I loved to go out as a kid and get my hands dirty! I wish more conservation messages were given in a positive light instead of in some of the finger wagging and fear mongering we hear so much of. Yes, we have problems, but what's more important is showing HOW we can fix them and making those fixes desirable. Changing our culture will be difficult, but we're a great country and I think we're up to the challenge! I'm happy to see that methane is actually mentioned as a problem! Too often the focus of environmentalist messages or other adverts by the 'green movement' focuses on CO2, but the science backing up CO2 is weak compared to the evidence for the impact methane has on heat trapping.

Recycling is brilliant! Composting is awesome! Growing up we always had a garden to grow our own veggies in and we composted left overs to re-feed our soil. It was neat! I loved to go out as a kid and get my hands dirty!

I wish more conservation messages were given in a positive light instead of in some of the finger wagging and fear mongering we hear so much of. Yes, we have problems, but what's more important is showing HOW we can fix them and making those fixes desirable.

Changing our culture will be difficult, but we're a great country and I think we're up to the challenge!

]]> By: Don, WA http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-682288 Don, WA Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:49:43 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-682288 I watched a documentary recently on deep sea exploration - they took a deep diving submersable to the bottom of one of the most remote spots on the planet deep beneath the ocean to see what they could find in terms of new deep sea life forms - and stumbled on a trash heap the size of a public dump, on the bottom of one of the deepest spots in the ocean. Plastics don't go away...they just settle in the earth. One day in the far future, if people are still here, scientists may term this chapter in history as "The Plastizine Era." I watched a documentary recently on deep sea exploration – they took a deep diving submersable to the bottom of one of the most remote spots on the planet deep beneath the ocean to see what they could find in terms of new deep sea life forms – and stumbled on a trash heap the size of a public dump, on the bottom of one of the deepest spots in the ocean. Plastics don't go away...they just settle in the earth. One day in the far future, if people are still here, scientists may term this chapter in history as "The Plastizine Era."

]]> By: Reese Cup from Ohio http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-682274 Reese Cup from Ohio Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:45:54 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-682274 okay...walking my dogs, then have to take out the plastic bag to pick up dog poop, but now can't recycle the plastic bag...isn't dog poop biodegradable? can't I just get a small shovel and bury the poop? would this contribute to saving the earth?...oh, and another thing, wash your baby's bottom instead of the wet wipes...every other country in the world does this. okay...walking my dogs, then have to take out the plastic bag to pick up dog poop, but now can't recycle the plastic bag...isn't dog poop biodegradable? can't I just get a small shovel and bury the poop? would this contribute to saving the earth?...oh, and another thing, wash your baby's bottom instead of the wet wipes...every other country in the world does this.

]]> By: Elle http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-682248 Elle Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:36:30 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-682248 Sometimes it shocks me how wasteful my country is. There are a lot of Americans who have no problem tossing things out of car windows, letting plastic bags fall out of their cars, and so on and so on. One thing I learned from my family a long time ago was "Waste not want not." How much do we all want to live here on earth if we keep doing harmful things to it? Sometimes it shocks me how wasteful my country is. There are a lot of Americans who have no problem tossing things out of car windows, letting plastic bags fall out of their cars, and so on and so on. One thing I learned from my family a long time ago was "Waste not want not." How much do we all want to live here on earth if we keep doing harmful things to it?

]]> By: Rose Parvin http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-682228 Rose Parvin Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:27:45 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-682228 Rose Assier Parvin's Universal Culture that is from her new pioneering Psychology of Health & Excellence teaches new Universal Patterns of Being Human reaching evolutionary excellence and change that not only brings you ultimate success but is also in harmoney with humanity and if learned universally we will no longer be alone in our being human feeling we live in a jungle and rat race as an outsider looking in when we are the ones who are truly human! When individuals learned to respect themselves and found who they are they no longer trash their own bodies nor their environments! Rose Assier Parvin's Universal Culture that is from her new pioneering Psychology of Health & Excellence teaches new Universal Patterns of Being Human reaching evolutionary excellence and change that not only brings you ultimate success but is also in harmoney with humanity and if learned universally we will no longer be alone in our being human feeling we live in a jungle and rat race as an outsider looking in when we are the ones who are truly human! When individuals learned to respect themselves and found who they are they no longer trash their own bodies nor their environments!

]]> By: Annie Kate http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-682210 Annie Kate Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:22:41 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-682210 One thing that would help is the elimination of all the junk mail we get in the regular mail. That is half of everything we throw away each day. Even the environmental groups contribute to this as I get innumerable items in the mail each week for them even though I have requested they only contact me by email. Getting rid of junk mail would help reduce the rapidly growing size of the landfills. It won't solve it but it will help. One thing that would help is the elimination of all the junk mail we get in the regular mail. That is half of everything we throw away each day. Even the environmental groups contribute to this as I get innumerable items in the mail each week for them even though I have requested they only contact me by email. Getting rid of junk mail would help reduce the rapidly growing size of the landfills. It won't solve it but it will help.

]]> By: Terry, TX http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-682185 Terry, TX Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:11:02 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-682185 Yeah....and you left out in your criticism of us Americans... let's do something about cow farts, pig odor...fat people on this global...uh..global warming..uh... global cooling….global weather changes…uh melting icepacks….uh no…they’ve frozen back up now….well global warming by fat people…no global warming by cows farts….well…I guess I will just have to check with the environmentalist that sue the EPA and now runs them...I believe they have an office now Yeah....and you left out in your criticism of us Americans... let's do something about cow farts, pig odor...fat people on this global...uh..global warming..uh... global cooling….global weather changes…uh melting icepacks….uh no…they’ve frozen back up now….well global warming by fat people…no global warming by cows farts….well…I guess I will just have to check with the environmentalist that sue the EPA and now runs them...I believe they have an office now

]]> By: Heather from NJ http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-682173 Heather from NJ Wed, 22 Apr 2009 22:07:02 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-682173 Unfortunately America is very much a "throw away" society. Many people will not even change. Advertising and media are huge influences on the public and need to get the message in our faces everyday. Speaking of this...will CNN be airing the movie "Trashed"? Unfortunately America is very much a "throw away" society. Many people will not even change. Advertising and media are huge influences on the public and need to get the message in our faces everyday. Speaking of this...will CNN be airing the movie "Trashed"?

]]> By: June Stone http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-682146 June Stone Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:59:19 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-682146 This is why recyling is key. One major positive is that there are a lot more biodegradeable containers and plastics made from plant materials being created. Now for science to come up with an eco friendly use for tbe rest of our waste. This is why recyling is key. One major positive is that there are a lot more biodegradeable containers and plastics made from plant materials being created. Now for science to come up with an eco friendly use for tbe rest of our waste.

]]> By: GF, Los Angeles http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2009/04/22/it%e2%80%99s-earth-day-and-we%e2%80%99re-all-trashed/comment-page-1/#comment-682015 GF, Los Angeles Wed, 22 Apr 2009 21:12:05 +0000 http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/?p=35629#comment-682015 Something that's not addressed is the overpackaging of products to make it look better so it would sell better. All that packaging ends up in our landfills. I try my best to buy things that have the least amount of packaging which is very difficult. It's sad that American's make up 25% of the world's trash and even sadder that others want to emulate our lifestyle thus adding more to the problem. Something that's not addressed is the overpackaging of products to make it look better so it would sell better. All that packaging ends up in our landfills. I try my best to buy things that have the least amount of packaging which is very difficult. It's sad that American's make up 25% of the world's trash and even sadder that others want to emulate our lifestyle thus adding more to the problem.

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