Talks green, drives green, owns a mansion.While it's nice to read that Hollywood types (Larry and Laurie David Laurie Ellen Lennard David (born March 22, 1958). She serves as a trustee on the Natural Resources Defense Council and a member of the Advisory Board of the Children's Nature Institute and is a contributing blogger to the The Huffington Post. ) drive a Prius ("Have Prius, Will Travel," sidebar, March/April 2007) what I want to know is how many Hollywood types are as legit le·git adj. Slang Legitimate. as someone like Ed Begley, Jr., who lives in a smaller home, uses mass transit mass transit, public transportation systems designed to move large numbers of passengers. Types and Advantages Mass transit refers to municipal or regional public shared transportation, such as buses, streetcars, and ferries, open to all on a , rides a bike, walks, composts, cooks solar, etc.? How many Hollywood folks who talk a good environmental line actually walk the talk and have smaller homes that are off the grid or at least as green as they can be? Big homes are like a paved parking lot: they not only collect and hold heat, they prevent water from being absorbed into the ground when it rains. Heck, how many of these celebrities own more than one home? Sure, someone can own a hybrid, but do they own other cars as well? How about the amount of meat they eat each day, which adds to global warming global warming, the gradual increase of the temperature of the earth's lower atmosphere as a result of the increase in greenhouse gases since the Industrial Revolution. ? How many well-to-do people fly on planes weekly or, like John Travolta, own multiple private planes? How many have homes of more than 2,000 square feet, all full of stuff?. How big are their clothes closets? If they own hundreds of pairs of leather shoes, they came from cows that generate roughly 18 percent of the world's greenhouse gases greenhouse gas n. Any of the atmospheric gases that contribute to the greenhouse effect. greenhouse gas . We need well-known people who will lead by example, who will have their own homes in order before they become a spokesperson for the rest of us (abuse) for The Rest Of Us - (From the Macintosh slogan "The computer for the rest of us") 1. Used to describe a spiffy product whose affordability shames other comparable products, or (more often) used sarcastically to describe spiffy but very overpriced products. 2. . Ed Begley, Jr. is a walk-the-talk type I respect. Beth Hartford DeRoos Jackson, CA |
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