Green Elephant
A Green Elephant? I grew up on a farm. I know what conservation is. I know how to take care of the land because on a farm the land is your livelihood. This is not about being a Global Warming believer (I'm not a big believer), but its about having respect for the land. I believe that the GOP espouses this belief AND does it in a way that is based in reality (tempering environmental concerns with real science and economic concerns). Don't confuse Green Elephant with the phoney science of Global Warming, its about basic respect for the land that I learned on the farm (and this same respect for the land also goes for respect of private property too).
1. President Ted Roosevelt (R) established the permanent preservation of some of the most unique natural resources of the United States by creating our National Parks (5), Forests (150), Game and Bird Preserves (55), and other Federal Preserves (42 - including National Monuments). That's 230,000,000 acres.
2. President Richard Nixon (R) signed the Clearn Air Act, the Enganged Species Act, the National Environmental Policy Act, and he establised the Environmental Protection Agency.
3. President Ronald Reagan (R) signed nearly 40 bills that added 10.6 million acres to the National Wilderness Preservation System, about 10 percent of the system's size. No other president has signed so many wilderness bills into law. Of all the standards that govern management of federal lands, wilderness is the most restrictive. No roads. No permanent structures. No commercial logging or mining. No motor vehicles. Not even a bicycle.
4. Governator Arnold Schwarzenegger (R - CA) signed a bill into law to cut the state's greenhouse-gas emissions 25 percent by 2020 and followed with an executive order requiring a dramatic drop in the carbon content of transportation fuels. He has vowed to fight attempts to reopen the California coast to offshore drilling.
5. You and me by practicing conservation at home, on the road, everywhere!
Seriously?
Some may say phooey to global warming or claim that Green is just a fad, but you cannot deny that when you drive by the trash heap along I-71 towards Grove City and smell the sweet ordor of rotting food, dirty diapers, and everything else we throw away that you are seriously grossed out! If it smells that bad, it can't be good. Anyways, practicing conservation is easy on the wallet!
Check out these links for ways you can start to be Green!