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Comment on Keen on living green-courtesy of The Baltimore Sun by greenmd

greenmd — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:48:41 +0000

For anyone who is interested, the full schedule of Baltimore Green Week events is available at baltimoregreenweek.org. I encourage anyone who can make it to come out and support Baltimore Green Week. Who knows, maybe we can make it a statewide event if it gains enough support.

Comment on Loading 600 Tons- Article about Single-stream Recycling in Baltimore City by greenmd

greenmd — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 03:37:33 +0000

This article shows that Baltimore is taking a step towards creating a better Maryland through recycling. Head of the Baltimore’s Bureau of Solid Waste, Valentina Ukwuoma, did a beautiful job summing it up: “People say, `It’s not convenient, I don’t want to.’ . . . You have no excuse not to now.” I mean really, is it too much to ask for some effort to be made in order to better the world we have to live in??? I don’t think it is.

Comment on Ice Shelf in Danger, “We Are in for a Lot More Events Like This”; Al Gore’s Greenhouse Solution by Allie

Allie — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 05:13:44 +0000

Seems highly unlikely that advertising– even $300 million worth– is going to cut it. Even the most effective campaign certainly won’t be effective enough to accomplish anything substantial enough to validate spending the money on advertising rather than channeling it directly into research. Also, pessimistically, our continued cultural reluctance to adjust our lifestyles in compliance with warnings that global warming is bringing an already nigh end nigher– or even acknowledge that this is actually the case– hardly seems likely to bend and buckle in the face of…an ad campaign.