Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Living Green!

While making myself some lunch today, I took a look at my latest Transworld Business Mag, and saw that it was their 2nd Annual Green Issue.

As I was going through it couldn’t help but get to thinking, could it really be that “we” are messing things up for the environment. I got to thinking how my pops is always giving me shit, about recycling, I don’t think he’s interested in the recycling dollars as much as he is in just doing our part. My pops tells me, that he has seen on the internet, that there is a “clump of trash” the size of Texas out in the ocean somewhere. If that’s true, that must be pretty messed up for the fish.

As I continued to read the latest Transworld issue, the Editor and Chief Josh Hunter had his own words to say about the environment, from issues relating to the recent earthquake in Japan, wildfires in Australia, thousands of birds literally falling out of the sky in Arkansas…to the cataclysmic weather, that seems to be showing in different parts of the world, like Katrina in 2005.  He even went as far as to wonder if all of this BS that is going on right now with 2012 really is true…who knows?

There was also another article talking about how Etnies is planting a tree for every pair of Jameson2 ECO shoes sold. Get this…this is bad ass!! You got Ryan Sheckler, Kyle Leeper, Chris Del Morce, CJ Kanuha, Benji Weatherley and Etnies CEO Pierre’Andre Senizergues planting the first 150 trees that they will be calling the “Etnies Rainforest” on the Maleku Reserve in Costa Rica. Kinda made me wonder what I can do to help?

The issue was filled with all kinds of stuff regarding the environment and how we are messing it up. I guess the next time we take a trip to the grocery store…I’ll really have to give the words “paper or plastic” some thought. The trees that are cut to produce those paper bags, or where do those  plastic bags wind up once I’m done with them…will they end up joining that “clump of trash” the size of Texas out in the ocean. I know one thing…I am seriously gonna try my best to just not think about myself anymore…I know, that is a lot easier said then done?