GP Box 11/19/07
Continuing on the “Going Green” theme today there is a picture of the GP Box (another term that needs to go into the Glossary) growing salad greens. This year I am trying not to over-water, so the roots go deep seeking water. This slows down the growing up (compare with the picture above, of the same date last year) but I think the greens will be fuller, greener and last longer this year. Going Green is popular this day with Churches, eating, restaurants, making automobiles, buildings and environment issues. Non-green activity, like the whale-killing ships the Japanese just sent out, is met with resistance. In this case I heard a GreenPeace representative today on the high seas. They will try to position themselves between the harpoons and whales in an effort to keep the Japanese from killing 1000 whales — not very sustainable creatures. Killing whales is not like the deer hunting that is going on this week in Wisconsin. Deer, when hunters thin the herd, come back in even greater numbers the next year. Thinning the herd is part of their survival in this urban landscape. Not so for the whales, according to GreenPeace. Whales, like peat moss and unlike coir (coconut shavings, and another word for the glossary), is not a sustainable, renewable resource.
So to be green, a creature or resource must be renewable, like the dear and coir and unlike the whales or peat moss. The same is true for waste, which like worms is at the heart of Growing Power. Much waste — coffee grounds, newspaper, cardboard, leaves, manure, wood chips, rotten vegetables — is renewable. They decompose and come back again. However, stuff like plastic bags or styrofoam is not renewable and recyclable. They just take a wasted space for many years.
I heard from a friend once that for everyone in the world to live like we do in USA there would be need to be all the resources of three earths. If we in USA all went green there still might not be enough resources on earth for all to live like we do. However, it might just take two earths instead of three!
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