Let’s go green, starting with the way we eat. Buying at local farmers' markets is the prefect first step since “there are many organic offerings that forgo the use of harmful pesticides.” Never mind that organic offerings can neither use nor not use pesticides. The farmers growing the produce, however, may indeed forgo the higher profit conventional farming can generate. Yet, “eating fresh, natural food tastes good.” Surely, eating tastes good, doesn’t it?Anybody who doesn’t like to cook, should find a green certified dining joint, where “the meat is an eco-friendly option. At B.L., it attains sustainability status with its menu and atmosphere.” A joint where the meat has menu and atmosphere indeed must be a true eco-gourmet’s pick.
Of course, to get to this joint, a hybrid car is the best choice, maybe the compact “Honda Civic Hybrid [which] provides a perfect compliment [!] of practicability.” Please, return this compliment by washing your Hybrid Honda often. After all, California now has “water restrictions such as landscape irrigation and vehicle washing,” car washing itself evidently being a rule rather than California having a restriction on it.
Yet promoting hybrid cars is not enough. California also must develop alternatives to “fossil fuels when our geographically rich country has so much clean, renewable energy to harness.” Geographically rich?
Not only does California need alternatives for energy but also for sweet water supplies since some lawmakers object the further exploitation of the Colorado River,
thus “essentially closing off another import outlet.” Since an outlet is “a pipe through which liquid can flow out,” an “import outlet” must be a very ingenious circular conduit. Or is it a new form of recycling?Finally, buildings must become more environmentally friendly and “have re-used demolished building materials.” A true commitment to sustainability requires that “all of these qualifications are met with the final product.” While it would indeed be more desirable that the final product meets the qualifications or that these qualifications are met by the final product, it most likely will never happen. After all, completely destroyed building material won’t be re-usable, not even for the most eco-friendly house. (Source: The Daily Aztec, “Sustainability – Feeling Truth At You [sic!]”)
