Join us as we go Green, one step at a time
Wow, long time no blog. What can I say? It’s been a rough few months - work has been incredibly time-consuming…to the point where all I do is work, eat and sleep. But a new year is around the corner and I feel the winds of change a-coming!
Happy New Year, by the way! I hope you are all enjoying the holiday season and have a healthy and successful 2008 ahead of you.
Now, to my post…
I love Costco. No. Really. I really really love Costco. I could sit here and sing their praises, but what would this have to do with being good environmentalism? Well, my friend, let me tell you. I just found out today that Costco has a recycling program! Not just any recycling program though. Costco has a trade-in recycling program for various electronics, including laptops/computers, LCD monitors, game consoles and more.
If you enter in some basic information about your item, Costco will spit out a trade-in value. If you’d like to recycle your item, Costco will then email you a pre-paid UPS shipping label. Costco will also send you a Costco Cash Card equal to your trade-in value (assuming your item is of value)! How great is that? Genius. Not only does it incent people to recycle their unused items, but it also pushes customers back to their nearest Costco store. Cha-ching! (More bulk toilet paper? Anyone?)
If you’re interested in this program, check out this link. Happy recycling!
This is a great speech and well worth watching.
Money quotes:
In this article in the NY Times, the author quotes his physicist cousin Howard as saying (in 1990) that hydrogen cars are 20 years away, and always will be. That’s kind of what I thought too, when George Bush, our traitorous, war-criminal “president” talked about hydrogen cars in one of his recent state of the union addresses. I mean, who takes anything he says seriously anyway?
Well surprise surprise! It turns out that Honda has a hydrogen car, the Honda FCX Clarity and the good news is that it’ll be ready next year! Other good news is that according to Honda, it gets the equivalent in gasoline of 68 miles per gallon. Also, as you’ll see if you read the article, it’s a pretty sweet car too!
Now the bad news. First of all, the benefit is also the drawback. It takes hydrogen, which is not sold, basically, anywhere. Secondly, it’s only being released in Southern California (Torrance, Santa Monica and Irvine), where apparently there are a few hydrogen sources. Thirdly, it’s only being released as a Honda subsidized lease, because these cars apparently cost a TON to make.
But all in all, I think this is great news. These cars seem like a real breakthrough, and if we can start getting the infrastructure in place to support these cars then we can stop relying so much on burning fossil fuels.
