Your Questions About Green Living

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“Constitution rules them” thinks the upside-down-pyramid-scheme “supply-side/deregulation” policies of the right-wing Republicans and their new toy the fiscally-illiterate teavangelists is an example of “free market,” apparently, instead of the deficit-causing, nation-destroying garbage-policy war on the middle-class that is actually the case. Add to this equation you have cited the fact that the top 1% of our nation’s wealthiest is just that—1% of our 360,000,000 population—and their often-hoarded wealth does not sustain the masses. Trickle-on-down economics simply DOES NOT WORK, folks! Hasn’t the Great Depression, the Reaganomics-caused COLLAPSE of our savings and loan industry, the FINANCIAL SYSTEM MELTDOWN preceded by the housing and credit markets’ disasterous GOP-policies-caused COLLAPSE taught the right-wing Republicans anything? They simply do not seem to learn from their mistakes…nor are they even able to admit that they make mistakes, preferring instead to project blame onto the Democrats and now onto a hard-working, nation-saving President Obama (or previous to him, President Bill Clinton)—the ones who get voted in to CLEAN UP GOP-CAUSED MESSES!

The upside-down-pyramid of deregulated bottomless-pit-greed right-wing policies balanced on the ever-decreasing middle-class cannot be sustained, which is why the ill-conceived Bush tax cuts for millionaires and billionaires or for corporate elites needs to be eliminated—the rates need to return to the Clinton 39% rate so that we can begin to pay down our Norquist-favored deficit and get this nation balanced once again. President Obama’s DEMAND-SIDE policies and the Democrats’ reinstatement of consumer-protecting and oversight-producing regulations has successfully reversed the hardening-of-the-arteries economic downfall from GOP totalitarianism, but now we need to GROW the economy with consumer spending and increased revenues so that all Americans can benefit from the recovery for which the foundation has been laid (see whitehouse.gov and recovery.gov for details).

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A great example of a sustainable community is the original Disneyland proposals by Walt Disney. He included income for residents, housing, utilities, transportation, health facilities, shopping/supplies, and community centers.

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If you looking at sustainable look at The Burton Green mountain project, or Holden outerwear. Holden isn’t marketing themselves as an Eco company but they are actually one of the leaders in it. Also Helly Hansen’s EkoLab. Or Patagonia. They’ve been making eco friendly close longer than most of us have been alive.

If you’re working at Echo Park there is a chance they will require you to wear their jacket as a kind of employee uniform, so make sure that’s the case before you drop a few hundreds dollars on a new jacket, as the eco friendlier ones are also usually more costly.

I’m also going to link this guy’s blog which is specifically about environmentally aware snowboarding. Http://www.vociferousvoid.org/

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You can purchase from local company by supporting them
you can purchase value pack which mean instead of 24 pack, you can buy a 2L bottle instead in order to reduce waste.
Make sure you recycle all empty bottles and cans
make sure you purchase those ones that can be recycled.

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1-2% on active duty is about the maximum, more if you have poorly trained and equipped troops. Less you you have very highly trained and equipped troops like the US.