IKEA Goes From Tax to Ban
No commentsMaybe it’s just personal bias based on their stylish furniture and tasty meatballs, but IKEA has always seemed to have a singular sense of practical-yet-extraordinary innovation. Example #1: my ridiculous indispensable Kitchen-in-a-Box set, awesome! Example #2: over a year ago (before it was popular!) IKEA was among the first companies to start advocating reusable bags. […]
Friday Link Round-Up: 09/26/08
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Wal-Mart: not as keen on waste as you might have believed. [Reuters Business and Finance]
A young man tries to find the words to describe his inner struggle with eco-consciousness. [The Lariat Online]
And then, along came the snarky rebuttal! [Mission Laughter]
The plastics industry continues to cry foul. [The Nor’wester]
Composting: the D’Artagnan to the “Three Rs” Musketeers? […]
Sometimes Seattle Gets Stalled… Again
1 comment so farAlas, Seattle! They just want to get some anti-pollution initiatives passed, but it seems like new obstacles keep cropping up at every turn. Today’s particular obstacle is a big one, too: enough signatures have been collected to bring an injunction against the plastic bag tariff that was supposed to begin in January.
More than enough […]
Tags: environmental policy, opinion, opinions, plastic bags, recycling, Seattle
Friday Link Round-Up: 09/12/08
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The rest of San Diego County may soon be following in Encinitas’ footsteps. [Sign On San Diego]
Meanwhile, Gonzaga is following in the footsteps of all universities going green. [Gonzaga Bulletin]
Concluding the Telluride/Aspen Plastic Bag Reduction Challenge: Telluride 1, Aspen 0. [Telluride Watch]
North Carolina communities are making a heartfelt effort at replacing plastic bags. [The Appalachian]
…and […]
Tags: Colorado, fashion, industry, Oregon, plastic bags, reusable bags, san diego, Washington
Exaggerating Claims Helps No One
No commentsWhen editors and columnists railing in favor of disposable plastic bags use fallacious arguments and flimsy attacks, it makes them look like fools. Unfortunately, this fact can go both ways and a couple of Los Angeles officials now stand as an example of what not to do.
In their Aug. 15 Blowback, L.A. County Supervisors Yvonne […]
Riverside County Enjoys a Good False Dichotomy (Also, Boats)
No commentsFALSE DICHOTOMY (n.) — A fallacy committed when the arguer claims that his conclusion is one of only two options, when in fact there are other possibilities. The arguer then goes on to show that the ‘only other option’ is clearly outrageous, and so his preferred conclusion must be embraced.
In contrast to yesterday’s update, some […]
Plastic Bag Fee Bill AB 2058: YOU Can Help!
No commentsCalifornia Assemblyman Lloyd Levine’s Assembly Bill AB 2058 — a bill that, if passed, would demand a 25-cent environment-supporting tariff for each and every disposable plastic bag handed out at grocery stores — has been kicking around for months now, but unfortunately it seems to have stalled somewhere along the committee decision line. Corporations and […]
Tags: activism, California, environmental policy, Heal the Bay, plastic bags, pollution
Look Into the Eyes of the Enemy
1 comment so farNo, I jest. That would be rude. But seriously, homeboy here does have some issues.
This gentleman is Stephen L. Joseph, head of the controversial Save the Plastic Bag campaign and the focus of a recent article in Time Magazine. An attorney with a history behind him of fighting graffiti and litter and waging all-out […]
Tags: absurdity, activism, environmental policy, opinions, plastic bags, reusable bags
Congratulations, Seattle!
No commentsI reported a couple of weeks ago on Seattle’s interest in a disposable bag tariff, and now The battle for the city’s fate is over: yesterday a plastic 20-cent bag tax proposal finally came before Seattle’s City Council as a vote, and it almost-unanimously passed.
Seattle is taking a different approach to the “paper or plastic” […]
The Bag Ban Comes Home (Again)
No commentsSweet home San Diego is an interesting place — never before have I lived in a place so equally split between raging conservatives and diehard beachy nature people. Most times, this dichotomy lays dormant as each party chooses to ignore the other, but from every now and then something happens to bring the underlying resentment […]
