The Green Smackdown: Gaining Speed

By popsci Posted 04.19.2007 at 1:06 pm 3 Comments

How better to go green?

Listen carefully, blog readers, and you will hear the swishing sound of sharp, protracted claws slicing through the air. Let the eco-friendly catfight begin! MegaCarbon Emitter takes issue with my "diversion tactic" and in the next breath books a cross-country flight to San Francisco? Sorry, sister, but your flirtation with vegetarianism and canvas shopping bags will do nothing to compensate for all the damage your frequent business flying inflicts on the environment. You might as well drive a Hummer to the farmers market. Truth is, as long as you continue to fly as often as you do, your carbon footprint will grow like an unchecked tumor, with every flight making it bigger and nastier until eventually your mere presence will spark droughts and floods.

Meanwhile my carbon footprint continues to shrink. I've made good on my promise to eat locally, which means I'm now packing my own lunch (in Tupperware bins, of course) and, frankly, hating it. (Sandwiches, sandwiches, sandwiches.) The upside is that I'm sort of losing weight, maybe. And that's gotta be good for the environment. Plus, I plan to start bicycling to work once or twice a week in May, which is Bike Month in New York And while I'm making the 22-mile round trip I'll keep an eye out for Talking Heads front man David Byrne's stolen bike, which may or may not still bear a MOST space telescope sticker, more evidence of his supreme dreaminess. But I digress. Back to the green cat fight . . . —Nicole Dyer

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04/23/07 at 1:39 pm

I like the idea of biking to and from work or the store. I don't anticipate many people being able to bike as their primary means of transportation. I do think scooters would be a great option for someone who lives a little further away from work than they would be able to bike. I would buy a scooter today if I was able to drive it on the street legally. I would like to see the option of "scootering" considered to give people ways to conserve and still able to get to work or wherever.

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04/25/07 at 2:42 pm

the scooter idea is a good one where i live we all ride scooters to work and school because in germany we live so close to them its useless and also expensive to won cars. we also bike and walk to get our country so over all USA SUCKS

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