Say It With Shrubs? EPA Wants You to Love the Earth on Valentine's Day

CNSNEWS.COM ^ | Jan. 3, 2014 | Penny Starr

[PROCON]

(CNSNews.com) - Why say it with flowers, when you could send your love a shrub?

The Environmental Protection Agency is offering Americans "Tips for February Fun," encouraging them to think outside the flower box on Valentine's Day.

On one of the busiest days of the year for florists, the EPA says Americans should consider buying long-lasting silk flowers, potted plants, or live bushes, shrubs, or trees that can be planted in the spring.

[PROCON]

“This Valentine's Day, show your love for the earth by sending recycled-content greeting cards.

Uh, yeah EPA, I'll get right on that...

[Kirkwood]

Bring me a shrubbery!

[tomkat]

Will see about findin’ an old tire to throw on the burn pile . . . will call it ahunkahunka burnin’ luv

[ZULU]

I recommend Hawthorne, Barberry (if allowed), and the wild variety of locust trees, also Osage Orange. They are covered with formidable thorns which keep away the tree huggers!

[PROCON]

LET THEM EAT SHRUBBERIES!!

[ConorMacNessa]

I'll love my Sweetie-Pie this Valentine's Day, as always. Chocolate, Chateaubriand and Cabernet.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[MeshugeMikey]

The EPA’s suggestions for “February fun” include thinking “green” on President’s Day by taking reusable bags on shopping trips and buying clothes that are made from recycled soda bottles,..”

I scarcely know WHAT to say! RECYCLED SODA BOTTLE CLOTHES? how terribly trendy they must be...in Berkeley

[Doogle]

"...???..okie dokies"

[PROCON]

Navy Bro, make sure it’s organic Cabernet.

[DannyTN]

"the EPA says Americans should consider buying long-lasting silk flowers,... "

Am I missing something? Aren't silk flowers fake? Is the EPA recommending we buy fake flowers?

[DannyTN]

"the EPA says Americans should consider buying long-lasting silk flowers,... "

Am I missing something? Aren't silk flowers fake? Is the EPA recommending we buy fake flowers?

[molson209]

When Environmental Wackos run your government

[ConorMacNessa]

Good evening, Army Bro! As long as the grapes weren't fertilized with night soil.

America demands Justice for the Fallen of Benghazi!

O stranger, tell the Lacedaemonians that we lie here, obedient to their command.

Listen, O isles, unto me; and hearken, ye people, from far; The LORD hath called me from the womb; from the bowels of my mother hath he made mention of my name. (Isaiah 49:1 KJV)

[PROCON]

Is the EPA recommending we buy fake flowers?

Yup, we have to save the erf donchaknow.

[JoeProBono]

[cloudmountain]

Now the EPA is telling us what to send to our Valentines.
Our government is becoming worse than any in Europe.

[DannyTN]

Maybe silk flowers makes sense as opposed to cut flowers.
When I first read that, I had a vision of everyone buying silk flowers and plants, and nothing real being planted. Seemed the opposite of what the EPA would want.

[GladesGuru]

In matters romantic, remember:
“SHRUBS ARE FOR SHLUBS”.

[ronnie raygun]

I for one would love to plant my shrub up thier.............

[Ezekiel]

Am I missing something? Aren't silk flowers fake? Is the EPA recommending we buy fake flowers?

Yeah, and all those plastic stems will end up in a landfill sooner rather than later. Envirowackoism is build upon one contradiction after another.

Come to think of it, wind turbines look like the kind of behemoth flowers that demons would build. Have they created any "dedicate a wind flower in your loved one's name" yet? Think of the surcharges they could collect from including a blender cam.