VT (for all of my design-obsessed peeps)

landscape#6bywalterhelena EASILY GREEN an essay by Sam Parry can only be viewed by visiting the blog site at www.forallofmydesign-obsessedpeeps.blogspot.com/

landscape#6bywalterhelena Friends and blog readers,  I hate the word tree-hugger. For one thing, I’ve been an environmentalist all my life and have never once hugged a tree. For another, it’s just one more little way that the nitwits undermine common sense dialogue about important environmental issues and marginalize conservation. “Oh, don’t listen to him, you know – he’s just a tree-hugger .” It really shouldn’t be that way. In fact, going green is so easy and beneficial that you really are a nitwit if you don’t try. Just think. The next time you're shopping for a car, and you're down to two or three choices, simply buy the more fuel efficient one. If you drive it 100,000 miles, and you get 30 miles to the gallon instead of 27, you've just saved yourself nearly $1500 (at $4/gallon) and saved the planet 370 gallons of gas, which eliminates about 7000 pounds of carbon dioxide [ http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/explainer/2006/11/how_gasoline_becomes_co2...