- Published:May 8th, 2007
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- Category:Save the World
Check out this picture of plastic bottles, courtesy of Hydro. The one in the background is 3 Football fields worth (roughly 2.5 million) which is apparently the amount of plastic bottles used in the US every hour. At least according to this guy. Who knows if it’s completely accurate, but even at 50% that’s a huge amount of bottles. Why did we ever switch away from reusing glass for soda bottles - just because of the cost?
On a related “save the earth” note, Hayden sent an email about how a small island in Papua New Guinea is using coconut oil to power vehicles and generators. I think this is super cool, but it’s still not all that great. Isn’t the whole global warming problem because we’re putting off gases? Burning vegetables doesn’t cause gas? I really don’t know, but it seems like it would still. Sure, it’s a BIG step forward, and absolutely worth pursuing, but I think there could be better alternatives.
For example, while I was in Belize on Caye Caulker and Ambergris Caye checking out real estate in Belize and other stuff like that, I noticed that these islands had almost NO cars. Most were used for construction with a special permit. The modes of transport were walking, biking or golf carts. Keener and I talked about how cool it would be if one of these smaller islands were able to go 100% self sustaining from solar and wind power. Golf cart roofs would make an awesome spot for a solar panel to continually charge their batteries, and there is plenty of wind and solar to power houses too. I’d love to be involved in making something like that happen, just for the cool factor. So, when are we moving?
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