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To: crazyhorse691
I'll do even more in 2009 than I did in 2008. In 2008 I stopped managing my garbage and lawn clippings. ALL of it goes to the land fill all mixed up in the back of a big blue truck. No more of those green tubs provided by government filled with plastic bottles and paper that government workers dutifully collect and sort. At a loss to the city coffers, I'd guess. Now all of my trash can decompose in peace at the land fill with all of the other trash. I've even seen where a company can harvest methane gas from the decomposition. Not only does this keep the methane from the atmosphere (we know methane is even more dangerous than CO2 since we may have to pay a cow flatulence tax) it offsets the amount of natural gas needed to power our society. By throwing my garbage into the landfill, I'm actually greener than the people that recycle theirs. Those smug recyclers in my neighborhood don't have any smugness on me!

For 2009, I plan on consuming more fuel in my vehicles than I did last year since anthropogenic global climate change is making it warmer. Since we've learned that the science is settled and that abmormally cold temperatures are caused by warming, I'm going to make as much CO2 as reasonable to do my part to ensure that cold wins out over warm since warm is bad.

38 posted on 01/03/2009 8:35:25 PM PST by theymakemesick (Buraq (buh- rok) Winged creature that carried mohammed on his Night Journey from Mecca to Jerusalem)
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To: theymakemesick
You can one-up that: begin planting forests in old, retired landfills. That once-paper carbon-laden soil will provide a rich seedbed for seedlings. Then, in 20 years, that old used up paper will be converted back to new wood, which can then be harvested, processed into new paper, serve its purpose, make its way back to the new landfill, and the cycle continues.

The advantage to this is that, any inventory specific to a "green" program - such as your methane capturing system or my logging operation, is kept at a common site: the landfill.

40 posted on 01/04/2009 1:12:42 AM PST by Lexinom
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