10 Activities to Turn Green That Never Hurt the Environment Anyways
Posted at 5:00 AM Oct 28, 2008
5. Sleeping
Who makes your sheets? Who makes your sleep mask? Who makes your sleeping pills? Know the companies you're buying from, and know their practices. Otherwise, passing out is just as detrimental as driving a Hummer over an aerosol can while strangling a sea bird with the packaging from a six-pack of soda cans.
4. Applying makeup
You've heard that some makeup gets tested on animals, and that's bad. What you haven't heard is that sometimes testing on animals can be good for them. Aim for the least humane lipstick in the cosmetics aisle. Remember, being pretty gives test bunnies an edge in the wild, making them statistically more likely to survive, reproduce, and frolic.
3. Shaving our legs
America has long been looking for a safe, renewable source of fuel. Well, ladies, we have it! What just keeps coming back? Leg hair. Next time you shave, collect it and send it to the government. Maybe they'll burn it for heat. Maybe they'll turn it into nuclear energy. We'll let them figure that out.
2. Breathing
Like talking on the phone, breathing is an unexpected killer of the environment. Reduce your personal carbon footprint by giving up on breathing and dying yourself.
1. Choosing a baby name
It may not seem like the act of picking a name for your baby could have much of an effect on the rapidly worsening situation of climate change, but it can! Name your child "John" or "Stacey," and things will keep going downhill. Name it "Rowan" or "Willow" and that child will grow up to be a tree-loving, pro-environment hippie who'll take the green initiatives you're too lazy to actually care about. Problem solved.
Comments
we breathe out carbon dioxide not monoxide, sorry but if we breathed out the former there be alot more people suffocating to death
nifty list just thought i should point that out
Posted 10/28/2008 at 02:26:55 PMAnyways? Really? Was this post written by a twelve year old? Perhaps you meant "anyway".
Nice point, Arkz.
This is part of SF Weekly, yes? Let's try to keep the quality up to SF Weekly standards, mkay?
Posted 10/29/2008 at 07:19:52 PM6. "When we humans breathe out, we emit carbon monoxide"
uh, perhaps in trace amounts, but, like all mammals, mostly we exhale to expel carbon DIoxide, which photosynthetic plants need to live.
1. Choosing a baby name may not have much of an effect on the rapidly worsening situation of climate change, but HAVING a baby certainly does. Make less consumers, and we'll consume less. You can recycle, drive a hybrid, shun air travel, replace all your incandescent bulbs with CFLs, and more. however, nothing prevents less human impact on the environment than simply not reproducing.
Posted 10/29/2008 at 07:27:49 PM