Posted on 12/14/2006 8:04:11 PM PST by Zakeet
If you're looking for a Kleenex on the Rice University campus in the near future, you'll be out of luck.
Students at the highly rated university in Houston have convinced campus officials to quit buying Kleenex products in favor of products that include recycled material and exclude material from trees cut from North America's largest ancient forest the Boreal forest that stretches from Alaska through Canada.
"It was an initiative that students involved in various environmental groups started," Kyle Saari, a sophomore earth science major at Rice, said today. "We simply showed our purchasing (department) that there are cheaper and environmentally superior products, so it was a no-brainer."
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As my dear departed dad would ask: "Can you make any money with that?"--LOL!
Houston PING
Rice University is also the home of the [James] Baker Institute for Public Policy. Of the Iraq Study Group. Feh!
I use Kleenex exclusively. No snot nosed kids are going to tell me what I can and can't buy.
Trees are a crop.
I still use them.
idiots
You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose.......
"This reminds me of a bumper sticker that I saw a few weeks ago: "If you are opposed to logging - try using plastic toilet paper".
Your great, great used corn husks. Not fun, sorta like asking Hillary to give your friends a speech.
"I remember when my father had cloth hankies..."
My husband still does. I make him do his own laundry.
Watch me.
LibFreeOrDie a dumbarse.....dipsh!tor....where is your degree from?
Owwwwwww....
That's a very uncomfortably photo.
Sorry, but I couldn't find one using a spotted owl.
Stolen, with thanks.
AArrggh. Old men's handkerchiefs always, always grossed me out, from when I was a tiny tyke until this very moment. Could never comprehend how anyone could use them. Ewww, ick.
But I don't have any issues with tissues.
Oh, except one - don't clean your glasses with Puffs. They smear something on them. And Kleenexes pop up from the box just right. If you've ever had whooping cough or pneumonia like I have repeatedly recently, you'll appreciate that "feature." Puffs just lie there and make you work to get them out. You can't be in a hurry to grab them.
Kleenexes rock; Puffs suck.
My dear departed dad, who *was* an earth scientist (geologist to old-schoolers), tried his best to force me to go to Rice.
I wouldn't have any part of it, craving instead the rarefied intellectual stimulus of drunken frat parties and fine football in Norman, OK. For a year, anyway, lol. The wrong year. SDS, sit-ins, protesters ... me in Villager dresses and Peter Pan collars. Clash! Off to SMU after that. Then I found out that hippies were everywhere.
Agree, Kleenex for tissues and Charmin for TP. It has to be soft for both, and these brands are the best.
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