ecopop newsletter - august 19, 2008

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LETTER FROM THE EDITOR

Greetings from an airline seat somewhere between Portland and Minneapolis. Fortunately, the airline uses fuel made from trash and cow patties which means that we're all saved! Thanks to modern technology, we can now eat, sleep and shit all we want! Hot damn! Okay, so maybe this isn't exactly true, but let's be honest, it's the kind of environmental news we're all secretly hoping for. Everyone wants the effortless quick fix. Have a headache? Take a pill. Have a tumor? Cut it out. Have a toxic plastic bottle? Put it in the blue bin. When we learned that trash and manure could soon be converted into jet fuel, we imagined that the world's waste and fuel problems were solved. Granted, it might only be a band-aid solution to a much bigger issue, but fuel made from trash is exactly the kind of crazy, blue sky idea the world needs right now. The type of half-baked idea that you could've had in the shower, posted on ecopop.com, and left the rest up to cyberfate. Think about it. Better yet, act upon it.

The Free Range Punk / August 19, 2008