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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (22927)	7/5/2006 4:37:29 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541355

Those are all good things and we do a lot of them ourselves, but my real question is, even if everybody did those things, would it make any more difference than all holding hands and singing songs? You can calculate your personal carbon emissions but nobody tells you what it will take to actually stop global warming. yosemite.epa.gov Now here's something that gets up my nose -- "carbon neutral shopping." carbonneutral.com

To: Wharf Rat who wrote (22927)	7/5/2006 4:55:27 PM
From: coug	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541355

Here is what I wrote last fall about shopping at big box stores as a conservation practice. One stop shopping vs running around, one stop distribution for big trucks delivering goods vs running around to many small ones. Not as pleasant shopping experience but energy savers imo.. It is just the way it is as the grab for the btus gets more intense because of more grabbers.. Message 21866630 I wish places like Walmart were better corporate citizens but yesterday I went there instead of driving another 5 miles to get lawn cloth which I couldn't carry on a bicycle up a long hill for about 8 miles. BTW, I am taking out a big portion lawn for xeroscape, another energy saver :) which I need under the rocks to be laid rather than use soil poisoner to keep the weeds down..