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Waste Not, Want Not

1/23/2020

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There’s a book written by David S. McRobert called There Is No Place Called “Away” Why Exporting Garbage Is Not Sustainable or Sensible. If you are taking garbage out to the curb or a dumpster every week, then you are under the illusion, like most Americans, that because they don’t see the garbage any longer, that it is gone.
Every year, the typical American family throws out 2,460 pounds of paper, 540 pounds of metals, 480 pounds of glass and 480 pounds of food scraps. The amount of wood and paper we throw away each year is enough to heat 50 million homes for 20 years. Each gallon of gas used by a car contributes about 19 pounds of carbon-dioxide into the atmosphere. For a single car driving 1,000 miles a month, that adds up to 120 tons of carbon-dioxide a year. Forty percent of food purchased ends up in a landfill.
I am watching The Time Machine where George has reached the time of the Eloi and the Morlocks when they blindly accepted cannibalism because they didn’t know anything else. We don’t have that excuse. We should know that we can do better. We can build a better world. Continue Reading
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    Cygnet Brown is the Author of The Locket Saga. The current five volumes Include:
    When God Turned his Head,  Soldiers Don't Cry
    Coward's Solace,  Sailing Under the Black Flag, In the Shadow of the Mill Pond, and T
    he Anvil. She is currently working on the Seventh book: Two Rivers. T She also has published nonfiction books Simply Vegetable Gardening, Help from Kelp, Using Diatomaceous Earth around the House and Yard, Living Today, the Power of Now and Write a Book and Ignite Your Business.

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