Posted on 12/19/2019 6:26:22 AM PST by C19fan
he sustainability director at a Virginia university has some novel advice for students heading home for Christmas: consider not actually purchasing a gift for someone in order to lessen your greenhouse gas emissions.
Were trying to keep in mind that our carbon footprint is something that can expand during the holidays, Calandra Waters Lake, Director of Sustainability at the College of William & Mary, told the schools news service.
Waters Lake offered students several tips for how to be wise
through our purchases, through food that we eat, through the activities that were doing over the winter break. Among those? Consider not actually buying someone a Christmas gift.
(Excerpt) Read more at thecollegefix.com ...
I remember about 40 years ago the “IN” thing was to wrap a present in newspapers. Didn’t last long.
What's a "newspaper"?
How about gifting atheists with the suggestion that they butt out of the Christmas season that they so hate?
I hand out CO2 and plenty of it. Merry Christmas!
This article has inspired me to go flush a half a roll of toilet paper down the drain with thirty gallons of fresh water. Then I’m going to get in my gas guzzling pickup, by myself, and drive five miles for some fast food — I have to go that far to find a place with plastic straws. I’ll leave the straw outside so a crow can use it for nesting material.
I am a man of nature.
Ok, I will send my MMA girlfriend to your office, so YOU can explain to HER!!
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