A Different Kind of Comment Card

We don't usually talk politics in the blog, but I was trés annoyed when I heard that the director of the EPA (that's Environmental Protection Agency) said no when CA wanted to make its own cars be eco-friendlier than the national standard. Even though it would only affect Californians, and after EPA experts told the director that CA should be allowed to do it (read more here).

Here's (a slightly modified version of) what went down:

California: We want cars in CA to be cleaner than the federal standard. You cool with that?

EPA director: Nope.

California: Well, can you at least tell us why?

EPA director: Negativo, California.

If you are similarly irritated by this strange behavior, you can send your own comment card to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson here.

-Toshio...off to do breathing exercises...

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Walmart has done so much to damage this country by selling at cheap prices and selling cheaply made products and making huge profits at the expense of poor wages and lack of insurance coverage and putting small business out of business and locking up large pieces of land to stop competition and forcing their suppliers to move abroad that they can sell all organic food and they can make their stores all green and I am not walking in one. Since their cheaply made products lead to more landfill waste I think you should not acknowledge them.
May I suggest a company to write to? I have been a long time fan of Dunkin Donuts coffee but had to stop drinking it because the taste was ruined by my guilt from the styrofoam cup I was drinking from. I know, I know, I could bring a reusable cup and I'll get there, but until then I am now choosing somewhere whose cups and lids are recyclable and made from recycled materials. However, I would love to be able to go back Dunkin and it never fails to disappoint me how many of those styrofoam cups I see bouncing around through the crowds in NYC. https://www.dunkindonuts.com/aboutus/contact/Feedback.aspx?type=5
Dear Lorna Well said: actually it is ironic that Walmart within the next two years shall lose up to (no less) 25% to 35% of its "made in China" cheap products as over ther in China, they are running out of energy (since October 2007) to make things and their pollution level in rising at a stupid level because they wanted to do quick money. Walmart will bend soon. It is only economics: anything made on the back of others and the environment is ONLy very short term. there are plenty enough products, just a bit dearer, "made in the USA or France or UK etc... that are of better quality and not made on the back of others,than the ones, for a lot of them so far, "made in China" which that are available to us...
Hello: Living in a rural area (Big Island of Hawaii)where access to Big Box stores is severly restricted anyway, I would urge Ideal Biters to go "green"locally. It benefits your local economy, treads more gently on our fragile natural resources, and yea, even minutely erases some of the guilt over non-green choices. I have read that many of the products sold as "green" or "organic" by the giant retailers are produced on massive farms or factories where economies of scale are paramount, which of course dooms Mom and Pop businesses who cannot compete pricewise. So, please buy local from your neighbors when you can. Thanks for listening. www.greenerworld.net
There are countless amazing, small projects by committed environmentalists -- the missing key for a lot of change is people making noise about it while they move their money towards slightly greener consumption each year. My org sets up carpooling for festivals and conferences, other groups help with composting, etc. There are very few "bad guys" among festival organizers that don't care about the environment at all, but change is really pretty slow. Thousands of people tell ME that they love the greening work SpaceShare does, but only a few tell the FESTIVALS, especially festivals that aren't already green. If festivals they think their customers, the people buying tickets, are paying attention, the green activists could have them all on the phone and making changes next week.
Target deserves props for committing to phase out PVCs in their packaging and to increase the availability of products made with PVC alternatives. Local is great when you can find local products, but that is often not the case. It is hard to get shower curtains made locally, but I am thrilled I can get non-PVC shower curtains finally at Target.
Ok, I work at Starbucks, I'll admit it and I want to beg EVERYONE who reads this to e-mail them, and request them to do two things (or one of two things, just pick one). #1- Offer only organic milk. They're taking organic milk (that boxed Parmalat shelf-stable stuff) off the menu entirely starting in another few weeks, and pushing the fact that all our milk is non-rbst or whatever, but in my opinion, that's just not good enough. Even if they just switched to entirely organic milk, because the overall demand in organics would shift so HUGELY, the prices across the board would drop, the awareness would hugely increase, and it's better for EVERYONE!!!! (plus it's good PR) Think about how many starbucks are near you. I can gaurantee each one goes through somewhere between 20-75 gallons of milk on a daily basis (the store I work at goes through roughly 50), plus half and half, plus whipped cream (we make it ourselves rather than buying the canned crap) #2- I really hate having to pay for soy, or charging people 40 cents for it, and I get a lot of requests for other kinds of milk (almond, other lactose-free) I have submitted internal comments, but if no customers ask, then it's not going to be a huge priority for them.
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