NBC Green Week next week because 'Green is Universal'

Here is a "Green Week" preview story as NBC-Universal is going to brainwash America next week. I thought it would be good to get a head start on them. The following article is courtesy of Universal Press Syndicate and the Kansas City Star.

Dear Abby | ‘Green’ businesses are seeing green, too

DEAR ABBY: I am 8 years old, and I love science. I am writing you because when I go to the doughnut shop, they always give me paper bags when I order my doughnut to eat there. I also notice other people getting bags they don’t need because they are eating their doughnuts there, too.

How many trees have to die for no reason?

I care about recycling and how long it takes for things to break down in the earth. What can I do so the doughnut shop will stop wasting bags? — Mandi in Scarsdale, N.Y.

DEAR MANDI: I respect the fact that you are conscientious about how your actions — and the actions of the people around you — affect the environment. You are a sharp young lady.

What you should do is speak to the manager of the doughnut shop. Tell him or her that these days a strong selling point in many businesses is that they are “going green.” In the case of the doughnut shop, it would cost them less and even gain them more customers if they would stop handing out bags to customers who are eating their doughnuts on the premises and tell them why. (A piece of waxed paper would suffice and create less waste.)

Readers, if you are interested in how long it takes the items we toss into our landfills to decompose, I found the following illuminating.

Read on:

•Paper, 2 to 5 months

•Orange peels, 6 months

•Milk cartons, 5 years

•Filter-tip cigarettes, 10 to 12 years

•Plastic bags, 10 to 20 years

•Leather shoes, 24 to 40 years

•Plastic containers, 50 to 80 years

•Disposable diapers, 75 years

•Tin cans, 100 years

•Aluminum cans, 200 to 500 years

•Styrofoam, never

Link to Dear Abby

IN THE NEWS:
AP: EPA takes first step toward climate change regs

General Electric, the Olympics and the News

What do General Electric, the Beijing Olympics and NBC News all have in common?

They are all run by GE!!! GE is powering the Olympic venues in Beijing and GE makes light bulbs. Doesn't sound that bad, right?!

GE is pushing for a new cleaner way of getting energy. NBC reports that as the way of the future. Viewers believe NBC because it is the news. But should we believe NBC News when they are run by a giant multi-national company that wants to make money?

You be the judge.

GE and NBC want global warming. Even if NBC knew that global warming wasn't true, I bet they would say it was true because of GE. GE is making record profits from their new energy saving light bulbs that NBC says is great. GE wants to build new wind turbines for cleaner power because coal and nuclear isn't safe (that's what they said). I think it is just a giant conspiracy by GE and NBC to make people go crazy so they make more money.

GE is making their money from their products, commercials aired on NBC, CNBC, MSNBC and all the other networks they own.

Come to wonder, the NBC-Universal networks are doing another "green week" soon. Go figure!