2008 can finally mark the trendiness of being eco-friendly and environmentally conscious. Don’t deny it, but every fashion company, corporation and person is jumping on the “green” bandwagon to promote a better lifestyle, make a bajillion dollars off of it while simultaneously polluting the Earth.
I hate to say this, but I will anyway even though I really hate people who say this, but I was totally eco-friendly before it became cool. No, really! Shut up. Don’t roll your eyes at me! Jerk!
Seriously, though, I remember when my elementary school held a huge Earth Day celebration and I learned all about the importance of recycling, conserving energy and trying to patch up the hole in the ozone layer. This all lead to my obsessive compulsive desires to recycle and reuse everything. I won’t even get into it.
Actually, now that I think back on this, my enthusiasm most probably stemmed from being Asian cause I am cheap and hate to waste things. Seriously, I HATE WASTING THINGS. Especially if it’s food on your plate. Don’t throw it away, cause I’ll eat it. No, it’s not about starving kids in North Korea cause that is NOT my problem, but it’s about the fact that you have perfectly good food that some one/plant/animal made and I am not going to just throw it away in a landfill. I WILL EAT IT. This is why I am fat.
Right, so…Hollywood is going green as well, and it’s been pretty funny to watch it unfold. For example, the gift bags my bosses received at a recent event were promoted as eco-friendly: they came in nice, reusable cloth bags but at the same time, contained so much paper waste (tissue paper, wrapping paper, a whole cardboard gift box that contained a single paper coupon) that I’m sure its carbon footprint was bigger than like a 40 dozen cows farting together.
Anyway, the most popular thing to do now is to include these tags on your email signatures:
I think these are great–especially when you sit right by the printer and realize that this tag pushes everyone’s email print-outs (because people will print out emails REGARDLESS THAT WE ARE RUNNING OUT OF OUR NATURAL RESOURCES) past an extra page so you get all these almost blank pieces of paper tossed in the trash. Awesome, right?
So I thought it would be nice to have a little fun with these tags. Here’s what I added to my signature yesterday and so far, no one has noticed it.
I guess people aren’t really paying attention to everyone else’s eco-friendly PSA. I pointed this out to B, which lead to a whole personality psychological Rorschach conversation because he insisted that it was a river moving past a tree, while I kept saying it was a path going up to it. I wonder what this means? Oh yeah, I know. I’M BETTER AT BRAIN AGE.
Anyway, I’m later going to try these:
I’ll let you know how it goes.
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