Question of the Week: How will you green your 4th of July?
Posted on June 29th, 2009 - 10:30 AM
Independence Day is celebrated across America often outdoors with picnics, fireworks, pool parties, or vacation trips. Share what you plan to do to be red, white, and blue - and green!
How will you green your 4th of July?
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Question of the Week
June 29th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
We are hosting our annual gathering at home, not away.
We will only use non disposable dishwear and cloth napkins, will encourage others to carpool to our event. Will purchase our party supplies LOCALLY from local producers.
And will recycle bottles / cans as well as compost our food waste from the event.
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June 29th, 2009 at 1:16 pm
Getting together with family; with picnic, fireworks, pool party. Not traveling… saving oil that way.
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June 29th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Carpooling is very important so I have done my best to organize as many carpools as possible in order to get people to my house.
Buying in bulk is also a good idea. I did most of my shopping at Whole Foods and BJ’s this year. I also ordered a keg of beer instead of using cans and bottles. You can’t beat the better taste, having it be cheaper and less waste!! Kegs are able to be reused many times over by the brewery.
Using propane instead of charcoal. Less emissions but I only wish I had a nice natural gas grill!!!
Borrowing close relatives’ utensils and plates for the day. Instead of wasting money on plastic forks, knives and plates which we thrown out at the end of the day, I have asked a few close relatives to bring some tableware over. At the end of the day, a quick spin in the dishwasher and back in thier hands.
Home grown salads. What’s better than making a big, hearty salad that is all, naturaly grown, right next to the table it is served on!!!
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June 29th, 2009 at 1:51 pm
going camping. no fireworks (perchlorates) displays to view, just sittin’ in the woods with the family. doesn’t get much better than that!
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June 29th, 2009 at 3:16 pm
This coming up 4th July will be the same challenge for me since the past for 4 years.
I will be at work but in setting up a 10 years future plan; I think that the next 4th of July 2010 I will aboard Charles or Hudson river to celebrate under night Stars.
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Jon reply on June 30, 2009 12:28 pm:
you should go to the charles river in boston…watch/listen to the boston pops at the hatch shell, and then watch the fireworks. it’s pretty sweet! The Boston Pops also have a “practice show” on Friday, July 3rd and they go through all their “songs,” I imagine that would be sweet too!
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June 29th, 2009 at 5:53 pm
Well, we aren’t making a big hoopla or anything inviting tons of people this year, but we are forfeiting the fireworks and the barbeque to spend a day hiking along the conservation trails and hopefully kayaking too.
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June 29th, 2009 at 8:32 pm
I work at the Rocky Mountain Biological Laboratory, and we are LITERALLY going green! Every year, we participate in the parade in clothes that we make out of false skunk cabbage, chanting and playing random instruments - some real and some grass kazoos. It’ll be a blast. :]
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June 29th, 2009 at 11:06 pm
I will be adding a green insulating product for home or business structures to the other environmental services I already do. This product can save up to 50% utility savings, is Eco-Friendly insulation, carries a Class A Fire Retardant, and can reduct outside noise up 80%
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June 30th, 2009 at 12:26 am
I’ll green my home by not worrying about CO2 and global warming.
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June 30th, 2009 at 10:17 am
I stay home and watch it all on TV while eating my veggie meals on washable plates, glasses and silverware.
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June 30th, 2009 at 11:13 am
I will eat on paper plates and cups and plastic forks and i will tell everyone i know that you are lying about global warming and climate change i think ill cut down some trees and have a bon fire and shoot off some fireworks
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Jon reply on June 30, 2009 12:33 pm:
nice.
at least you are using paper plates/cups!
and global warming is true, it’s just not a simple fix or as bad as Al Gore thinks it is. Don’t worry, the earth will cool again and we’ll have another ice age…and people will complain that it’s too cold!
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Patrick Elliott reply on July 1, 2009 5:04 am:
We were being prepared for another Ice Age in the mid 1970s if you look back at articles from the time…
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,944914,00.html
“Since the 1940s the mean global temperature has dropped about 2.7° F. Although that figure is at best an estimate, it is supported by other convincing data.”
Convincing data… ah, there’s the key. Right…
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tamara reply on June 30, 2009 1:48 pm:
wow anti tree hugger,
you really went out of your way to post a comment like that… what are you doing on this website in the first place?
I don’t go to your lame and under-educated “global warming.. don’t believe it” sites. you stay on your delusional trip that denies all human activities effects on the planet, and we’ll keep to our job of cleaning up your mess.
Thanks and have HAPPY 4th!!
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June 30th, 2009 at 4:16 pm
Going to walk to watch fireworks that arent to far from the house other than that staying home and not driving.
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June 30th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
I’m going to run my air conditioner a bit harder, maybe 65 degrees - might even have an open bonfire - although they’re illegal in Seattle, and not for safety reasons.
No, I think I’ll celebrate things uniquely American, like speaking up about issues such as environmental alarmists determined to drive us back to the Stone Age.
For all those in that camp though, you’re just as entitled to your opinion too -
Happy 4th of July to all!
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July 1st, 2009 at 8:34 am
I will look for a used plastic 55 gallon drum that we can recycle into a rain barrel.
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July 1st, 2009 at 12:19 pm
NO Driving!
Happy 4th of July to all!
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July 1st, 2009 at 8:48 pm
We will not be using disposable cups, plates, plastic ware, can sodas, etc., cutting way down on trash.
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July 6th, 2009 at 4:25 pm
set off fire works, (everyone else was too…i’m sure there is a huge ozone layer above our house now due to that)
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July 22nd, 2009 at 5:54 am
Stay home and watch TV.
http://www.webtechnepal.com
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July 26th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
I wouldn’t light up the fireworks, only watching people that does it…
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August 1st, 2009 at 5:37 am
Well, I think I’ll celebrate things uniquely American, like speaking up about issues such as environmental alarmists determined to drive us back to the Stone Age.
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August 7th, 2009 at 7:34 pm
Why 4 of July? Is there any particular reason?
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November 17th, 2009 at 12:59 am
Thanks for posting this article. It is very important that, during our 4th of July celebration we pay special attention to our environment. Go Green!!
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