Paper Bags

[Bill]

Hello,

I just heard this statistic. I am trying to find out the source to verify it. In any case, it calls out for awareness of what is happening to our environment. "Our" meaning that what we're seeing is a reflection of the human condition and that makes us responsible individually as well as collectively.

If one family in the US used one less paper bag per year it would save 20,000 acres of forest.

So use cloth bags and bring your own containers. Look into how much water and land is being used to produce meat and things that balance meat, like vineyards.

Water is being diverted from the Colorado River to keep the acquifer under Phoenix filled in case of emergency. Pretty soon the fresh water isn't going to reach the ocean. Now what? The oceans become saltier, the land is shut off from the excange.

Approximately 5% of land in the US is occupied. What happens to the rest?

It's up to each one of us. Don't use that paper bag. Pass it along.
Bill

[Roger Windsor]

Good advice, Bill.

It's the things we all do on a regular basis that really add up to tax the environment.

Many of the cloth bags that are sold for shopping are often flimsy and too small.

Several years ago, I found a study canvas bag-- I believe sold by Land's End. It has served me well.

My local Whole Foods gives a 5-cent rebate for brining your own bag. Not a big deal-- only about $8 a year if you shop three times a week, but that will pay for the bag in two years, and the bag should last several years.

Roger Windsor