In honor of Earth Day
 

I am sure you all know that yesterday was Earth Day.

This is a vital and important day where we all come together to recognize the greatness of this small planet we all live on.

It is a great opertunity to contemplate exactly what we are doing here. Are we doing things that make our Earth better or are we doing things that harm our precious Earth?


These are vital and important questions, so in keeping with that, I thought it would be nice to start a thread where we can offer suggestions to those who want to "think Green". We can collect suggestions and hopefully have a better Earth in the process!


I will start with this. It came to me last night.

Reduce your carbon footprint, chop off your feet!

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Hug a rosebush ...
Kiss some poison ivy ...

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Cut down gaseous emissions - - stop eating beans!

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:smack:nah

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Save a Vegetable. Eat a booger!

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Dear Greenick, Carbon Dioxide is now a polutant. According to the EPA it is a dangerous gas.

So to help save the planet, please stop breathing.

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see if you can get a device to measure the emissions from my 45 being fired repeatedly, lol

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Use only ONE 1-ply square of toilet paper!

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gross, dt

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There was someone, I'll have to google news for it, a while back who was seriously advocating the use of only one square of tp per bathroom use. :lol

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That would be Sherryl Crow.

and that would be the reason Lance Armstrong divorced her! LOL!

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Yes! That's correct.

I have to say, the O'Donnell quote (as much as I don't like her) is hilarious! :ursofunny


Source

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In honor of earth day, I did not recycle

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Yeah, lets all worship mother earth.
Sorry environmentalists, nut the earth is under a curse that won't be lifted until there is a new earth.

Woopee earth day!

I think I will have Wendy's chili for lunch!

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cheryl crow, dumb but true

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I am pleased to say that I have neen doing my part. And let me tell you what a blessing it has been in so many areas....

Water conservation
In order to conserve water, I stopped showering except on Saturday. Not only have I saved hundreds of gallons of water, all those people who used to come to my desk and pester me for stuff have stopped.

Also, we quit flushing the toilet to save water, and now not even the Jehovah witnesses come around.

Other ways to be green....
Stop mowing the yard. More sq ft of growing green-ness= more co2 converted to o2.

Help cool the planet by leaving the fridge and freezer doors open

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OK, I can't stand the tree huggers and the global warming cultists either, but, what is a moderate way to act toward our natural resources?

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I accidently overseeded my lawn and seeded a flower bed, yesterday. I say accidently, 'cause I did it without realizing it was earth day. ;) My bad.

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there is nothing wrong with being a good steward of all that God has blessed us with.


that does not mean we need to believe every idiot that comes along wanting to save a stinking kanagroo mouse.

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this is for the crazy who believes in global warming


http://icecap.us/index.php

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Glad to see someone who had a well-thought out post on this thread.

Why is it that if we disagree with tree huggers, we automatically want to go to the other extreme and purposely harm the planet? And if we disagree with extreme animal rights people like PETA, we want to joke about out hunting exploits or how much meat we can stuff into our already full stomachs and clog our arteries with the cholesterol? It's childish!

My family recycles, and I'm proud of it. We've grown our own food, and it is good for us and the planet. We use recycled bags for our groceries, and buy food that's grown organically and not harmful to the environment (along with organic and humanely raised meat). I know people that use compost piles to fertilize their gardens instead of fertilizers and pesticides, I think it's GREAT!

And my pastor has two gardens and between his house and the deacon's house there are about half a dozen apple trees.

Why anyone would want to harm the planet, just to get back at tree huggers is beyond me... Life's a lot better when you can enjoy the benefits of clean air, food and water.

-Bro. Alex

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california has poluted your brain

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I'm from New England...

-Bro. Alex

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Even worse ... east coast lib.

:lol j/k

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isnt New England the home of the American Commie?

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Im just asking.

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The party you asked about, Ferd, is located in New York.

As for being "liberal"- I don't hug trees, or fear crushing an ant while driving, and my family removed a few trees in our backyard when we got a pool, and I don't believe in global warming.

However, not recycling is LAZY! This is, seriously, a holiness issue. We need to be good stewards of the land GOD has put us on. That means "going green" when we can (it can save money too, for those who are frugal), not littering (which is EXTREME LAZINESS), not wasting water needlessly, and being compassionate towards animals (GOD's eye, which is on the sparrow, will not hold blameless the one that is cruel to animals).

It's the blatant disregard for the earth, animals and our resources that give one more thing for the non-Christians to mock us about, as being ignorant. I refuse to live in ignorance, and I don't want to live in filth, neither do I want to be lazy or excessive.

I'm really interested in seeing well thought out responses from those who may disagree with me, I really do want to understand where you're coming from, and see if I am missing something.

-Bro. Alex

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Dude, you are way too young to be so serious! LOL!

I said "In honor of Earth Day I didnt recycle TODAY! get the implication there? I have a big old 4 foot recycle container at my house and everything that can goes in it.

you need to take some of that starch out of your shirt collar and loosen up a bit.

I am however, very happy that you arent worried about crushing ants when you drive down the road! That makes me feel better!

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And I thought Red Ted Kennedy was the head commie?

and Aint Bernnie Sanders from New England?

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A holiness issue!? This is new. Please expound on how being, or not being, an environmentalist is about holiness.

Ps ... being green doesn't save much money. Those stupid new "green-friendly" light bulbs that only give half the amount of light and take an hour to actually brighten the room cost almost twice as much as a regular light bulb.

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It's not funny, because this is a trend I see a lot in church folk, and that is the lack of consideration for the earth's resources. At the UPC I used to attend, when my sister would offer to take the used up Sunday school paper, that would have been thrown away, so she could recycle it, the Sunday school superintendent would give her a hard time, and one time exclaimed, "I don't care about saving the whales!" It was really foolish and childish, but for some reason, many saints seem to have a desire to combat environmentalists, so they go to the other extreme and almost try to invent ways to harm the planet or they just want to be lazy.

-Bro. Alex

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Bro. Alex,

Why do you assume that we are purposefully harming the planet if we think Earth Day and tree huggers are idiotic and idiots, respectively? :coffee2

We had a discussion with our children on the way home from church Wednesday, regarding Earth Day. The explanation was very simple: We don't subscribe to the liberal thought process that says we owe "mother nature" anything.

Are we good stewards? Yes. Do we conserve water and energy? Yes. Do we litter? No. Do we throw trash in the lake? No. Do we avoid using chemicals in our gardens and lawns if possible? Yes. Do we avoid killing living organisms unnecessarily, except for food or in self-defense? Yes. Do we recycle? Okay, sometimes. ;)

Why do we do all this? Because God created the earth and all it's resources FOR mankind, and therefore we owe it to HIM to be good stewards, as a measure of our thanks.

As for earth day, we will ignore it. It is a liberal, heathen motivation for something we already do in praise to God. :)

Global warming is quite another story. I question the sanity of anyone who can take it seriously. :D

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Nonsense. It's a common sense thing, and a matter of taking the time to do it, much like choosing to donate old clothes to Goodwill, rather than tossing them in the trash. But a holiness issue? Come on. You have got to stop attributing EVERY little thing to Christianity.

Live your convictions, Alex, but don't judge others as being unholy because they don't collect cans or stack paper in boxes. We recycle sometimes, some things, but not everything. I reuse more than I recycle. Regardless, for anyone to judge that as an issue of my relationship with God is Cuh-Razy. :foottap

I don't think Ferd or anyone else is advocating a "blatant disregard for the earth, animals and our resources." I am on board with Ferd that "Earth Day" is stupid, and I don't need liberal tree huggers teaching me common sense about the earth that I learned from my grandparents as a wee tot. For that matter, we were "reusing" old clothes as rags, turning them into quilts, or donating them to charities WAYYYYYY back before the green freaks made it hip and popular.

My father loved to hunt, but he was very compassionate about animals, and would not allow ANY sport hunting--we were taught that you only kill what you intend to eat. (Except in cases of overpopulation or in self-defense.)

I'm just saying...I'm already conservative, and that doesn't only apply to my political views. It applies to my whole lifestyle. I'm going to kick earth day and all its advocates to the curb, because it's just another way the "tolerant" liberals are trying to turn their own opinions into moral issues, and force their views onto everyone else.

Quite frankly, if someone owns their own property, and they want to kill every single deer that crosses their lawn, and mount its head on their den wall--that's their business. I don't have to go visit their moose morgue, nor do I have to legislate their right to hunt on their own property. If they want to use an old, clunky, gas-guzzling truck, I don't care. It probably causes less pollution than the big SUV's and limos the hypocritical green freaks drive and ride in. :foottap

Use common sense, I agree. :) Be a good steward. But please don't make it a "holiness" issue. :rolleyes2

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Nope, he is from Chicago, or was that hawaii, or indonesia, or kenya. I ferget.

All joking aside, I do try to be environmentally conscious, every time I go hiking I come back with a day pack full of other peoples granola bar wrappers and bottles. Annoying.

Joking aside I think Green, wish I could afford a wind farm.

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We will be installing a huge photovoltaic system soon. But this thing is ungodly expensive!
(And I am not doing it to "save" the Earth..... Just to gain a SMALL amount of independence -this time from the electric company.)

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Do you consider hunting and eating meat as lack of compassion toward animals?

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That would be nice. The earth isn't in a bad a shape as some let on. History channel is running this thing, Life After People. Earth looks like it does just fine after we aren't here...:thumbsup

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Is it a holiness issue to fill landfills full of mercury? cuz those new lightbulbs the Green freaks have forced us all to use are full of mercury.

sorry knuckleheads!

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Good griefers, couldn't you just say a huge solar panel system.

:lol

I had to go look it up, thinking it was some cool star trek-type thing ... anyways, very disappointed with it being just a dumb solar panel system.

:smack


j/k pretty cool ... anything to get away from SRP.

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Exactly! And I want to know how the eggheads, who've demanded these be manufactured, will respond when the mercury lawsuits start rolling in from health-related illnesses.

Where's the outrage of concern for people's health. Oh yeah, I forgot, the humans are expendable ... save the planet and animals, but who cares about the humans.