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1 posted on 09/19/2007 9:48:43 AM PDT by traumer
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Let me revise my last math equation concerning 4.5 gallons of water if they flush 3 times per day. This guy composts his poop, so he saves on water that way. I have had a composting toilet at our camp and they are not the most sanitary things I have ever been around. Never again.


115 posted on 09/19/2007 12:21:25 PM PDT by go-dubya-04
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It is mid-afternoon in an airy, lower-Manhattan flat, on the ninth floor of a posh-looking building with a doorman.

It's hard to imagine him roughing it when his dwelling is described as 'posh'. Now, a 4th floor walk-up in a neighborhood bereft of doormen and elevators and 'posh-ness', maybe. Maybe a tent in Central Park...

This is the home of No-Impact Man, aka Colin Beavan, who describes himself on his blog as a "guilty liberal who finally snaps, swears off plastic... turns off his power... and while living in NYC turns into a tree-hugging lunatic who tries to save the polar bears".

When it's 30 degrees outside, his neighbors heat will help keep his dwelling more comfortable, so again, he's only borrowing from them. And no toilet paper? Ugh. That's the way other countries who don't have toilet paper do it - and they do have more diseases we don't have. Need more germ-x....

116 posted on 09/19/2007 12:25:55 PM PDT by fortunecookie (Finally catching up with posting...)
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Colin uses a glass jar he picked up from the trash as a reusable cup when he orders take-out coffee or juice.

Ok, it's crap like this that makes me want to scream.

He didn't already own a cup or jar that he could have used for this purpose?

Give me a break! It's one thing to want to do what you can to help reduce man's negative impact on the environment, but this kind of nonsense is an attempt to shock people and get them to notice you. It's attention deficient behavior.

It's not about "saving the planet", it's about being acknowledged that you are "saving the planet".

118 posted on 09/19/2007 12:33:17 PM PDT by Anitius Severinus Boethius
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Of course, we could simply stop population growth by ending legal immigration, which would leave more resources for Americans to use.

But that would be too simple.


119 posted on 09/19/2007 12:38:08 PM PDT by Age of Reason
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Hey, maybe I can sell the Beavans some ass-wipe offsets!


120 posted on 09/19/2007 12:38:58 PM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't drive, can't fly, can't ski, can't skipper a boat; but they know what's best for us)
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If they shut off the power, doesn’t that mean they don’t have hot water? So , when they wash their bodies, hands, dishes, clothes etc. its all with cold water?

I don’t think so...and we won’t even think about the ewww in no toilet paper!

yuck!

122 posted on 09/19/2007 1:05:33 PM PDT by unibabe9107
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A mind is a terrible thing to waste, unless of course it’s a liberal, then throw it away, save the planet.


126 posted on 09/19/2007 3:43:23 PM PDT by Tarpon
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Somehow, this seems extraordinarily appropriate here....


127 posted on 09/19/2007 3:50:51 PM PDT by ChildOfThe60s (If you can remember the 60s........you weren't really there)
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...”guilty liberal who finally snaps”....Now who is it that says Liberalism is a Mental Illness?


131 posted on 09/19/2007 4:04:35 PM PDT by gathersnomoss (If General Patton was alive, he would slap many faces!!)
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133 posted on 09/19/2007 4:10:35 PM PDT by Alouette (Vicious Babushka)
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my dad grew up on the farm in Michigan. they took baths in a large tub in the middle of the kitchen. They had an outhouse. These guys still are clueless. I am greatful for modern conveniences.

BUILD MORE POWER PLANTS. STOP IMPORTING POVERTY. PROVIDE FOR THE POPULATION YOU HAVE. THAT IS GOVT’S JOB.

stay out of my healt care and start building power plants and pumping oil.


136 posted on 09/19/2007 4:17:24 PM PDT by television is just wrong (deport all illegal aliens NOW. Put all AMERICANS TO WORK FIRST. END Welfare)
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my dad grew up on the farm in Michigan. they took baths in a large tub in the middle of the kitchen. They had an outhouse. These guys still are clueless. I am greatful for modern conveniences.

BUILD MORE POWER PLANTS. STOP IMPORTING POVERTY. PROVIDE FOR THE POPULATION YOU HAVE. THAT IS GOVT’S JOB.

stay out of my healt care and start building power plants and pumping oil.


137 posted on 09/19/2007 4:17:27 PM PDT by television is just wrong (deport all illegal aliens NOW. Put all AMERICANS TO WORK FIRST. END Welfare)
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"In essence, the project has really slowed down time, which is pretty amazing considering how fast time has become, and especially with us living in New York - you come home to a quiet, soothing cocoon."

Slowed down time and everything? Wonder why her laundry doesn't get done?

No honey, time isn't slowed down. A day feels like forever because your husband is a moron and you're stupid enough to go along with his idiocy.

139 posted on 09/19/2007 4:20:13 PM PDT by Dianna
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The 43-year-old writer...

This worthless phoney baloney poser is not worth the tissue to blow his snot away. Everything he buys eats wears and craps is brought to him by the burning of petrochemicals. If he was serious he'd move the hell out of NYC, go live in Amish country, send in his copy by moving a few electrons, while buying his goods down the road at the general store and the neighbor's roadside stand.

Liberals. Sheesh.

147 posted on 09/19/2007 5:46:15 PM PDT by hinckley buzzard
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Read about your future if the greedie greenies get their way...


148 posted on 09/19/2007 6:20:14 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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his publishers are looking at sustainable ways of publishing.

Print it online and NOT on paper. Duh!

149 posted on 09/19/2007 6:22:06 PM PDT by TenthAmendmentChampion (Global warming is to Revelations as the theory of evolution is to Genesis.)
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Photo Sharing and Video Hosting at Photobucket

If Cheryl comes over no problem.

150 posted on 09/19/2007 6:26:31 PM PDT by missnry (The truth will set you free ... and drive liberals Crazy!)
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Ugh. So no toilet paper - how do they, I mean, okay with their hand.. is it like a scoop? Do they pick at it? What about those especially difficult..umm.. what about - UGH!

When it gets all... jeez, this is disgusting. Now I have to wonder whenever I see some nut job on the street, does he/she clean up with their bare hand...

Why.


154 posted on 09/20/2007 2:35:52 PM PDT by buckleyfan (WFB, save us!)
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ping


155 posted on 09/21/2007 4:28:49 AM PDT by steelyourfaith
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