Awaken Your Inner Gaia

No use crying over....whoops!

So places like WalMart, all its affiliates, and Costco have taken a step towards a greener earth.
No, they haven’t donated money, planted trees, or started using energy efficient bulbs in their super, colossal marts. They have manipulated their powers over a simple jug of milk!

Yes, moo cow milk!

This new milk jug is adapted to the new American economy and lifestyle. They are efficient in more ways than you think, but is that really a good thing?

So why does this peak my interest and why should it peak yours, let me take you through the pros and cons:

Pros:

1) They are more efficient and easy to stack, hence more milk in one place.

2) Sam’s Club reported savings of 10 to 20 cents a gallon.

3) Milk crates are gone. Now they are stack and shrink wrapped, then moved by a big machine instead of man power to load onto the semi. (Wait…machines use a lot of energy…energy costs a lot of money. Shouldn’t this be a con?)

4) The company that makes the milk in the jugs has saved a lot of money on water use by 40-60 percent and more milk per crate means less trips to the supermarket to drop off milk-a fuel savings.

Cons:

1) You can’t pour it.

In the New York Times article about the issue, they asked dairy owner Mike Compston who described the pouring technique in a telephone interview as a “rock-and-pour instead of a lift-and-tip.”

So this is the problem, is milk you can’t pour even worth it? Many bowls of Cheerios await your answer.

Propel needs to get a grip

Okay. So this really ticks me off.
Propel water, using a stupid, sales strategy to throw a curve ball at vitamin water.

If you see, at the bottom of the screen, in tiny little white font, it says that the facts contrived are based on 20 fl oz. In this commercial, they make it seem like there is 125 calories in 8 fl oz, even though it does say at the bottom based on 20 fl oz, because all the people are holding just ONE bottle.
Sure okay, they got their facts right, 50 calories for 8 fl oz is exactly the same as 125 calories for 20 fl oz. And sure Propel has less calories than vitamin water. BUT COME ON!
Unless all you do when you work out is walk a mile, you need those extra calories. CALORIES CAN BE GOOD. Energy is measured in calories! More energy = more work = big juicy healthy muscles!

Sure fat has more calories, but aren’t you working that off anyway?! I mean, leisure biking that is less than 10mph (according to this nifty thing (link to: http://www.nutristrategy.com/activitylist.htm) That’s like 238 calories, almost 5 vitamin waters! Anyone who hydrates that much (40 fl oz) in one exercise might just die of over hydration. Or just get a headache. And what of just plain regular water? How many vitamins does one need during or after a workout?

It’s sick, it’s disgusting, and it’s a cheap way to get buyers. It just makes me sick and pisses me off. Pass me the one, the only, the original H2O please!

Would you drink it!?

Okay, this is recycling to the EX-stream…and saving water to another EX-stream. This is just EXTREME! And because of it, the people of southern California will be literally drinking their own waste.

Because of the crazy drought going on in that part of our country, river water has become extremely unavailable. So what does California decide to do? Stop watering their million dollar lawns? Stop filling their in-ground pools and hot tubs? Nope – they build a 4 million dollar plant that can take their sewage and transform it into drinking water. Pretty much, instead of dumping it in the Pacific Ocean, the waste goes to this facility and runs it through a super advanced filtering system. Officials are super confident that this water is safe to drink, even though state officials have yet to test the water to see if it’s up to par with the standards of drinking water. They say that the final product is as clean as distilled water and so pure that they have to add lime so that the minerals won’t deteriorate the concrete pipes that they have to go through. On the other hand, I am EXtremely skeptical. This sounds like something that will possibly fix the drought, help out with global warming, and all those goodies, but I believe that it will deteriorate the health of those who drink it. I know, I know, weird for someone like me to say, “ignore the environment, but what about us?!”

I seriously think that this is a bad idea. One screw up in the plant, and hundreds of people could get sick because they are drinking excrement. This could lead to contracting E-coli strain O157:H7.

Pretty much, good E-coli resides in your intestines, but the kind that ends up digested and gets past the large intestine safely, becomes rogue. Usually it is found in beef because of the poor conditions in slaughterhouses.

They are also putting calcium hydroxide in the water (lime), and an over dose of that can cause difficulty breathing, hypotension, internal bleeding, an increase of the pH in your blood (which can destroy your organs), and skeletal-muscular paralysis.

Any takers?

Didn’t think so.

The project is promoted as a way to reduce garbage, cost less, and since it’s recycling, it’s good for everyone. However, I don’t think it is, it might be good economically, but that seems to be all that matters. Its just an example of money mattering more than people.

Why I love energy drinks (An intro to conservation of energy)

Monsters, bulls, rockstars, and bawls are all hardcore, manly things. They also produce a lot of energy - in the form of energy drinks! Companies like PepsiCo and Coca-Cola produce billions of cans of these high-energy, sugar-filled delicious beverages like there is no tomorrow. Sounds exhausting...

They don’t stop producing, so you don’t stop buying, and with all that energy you’re getting, you keep going, and going, and going

soon you’ll be running like a Kenyan. (Let me tell you, that is a lot of fun!)

But what about other types of energy? Like the kind that can’t be reproduced in factories...what about oil, gas, water, wind, solar, corn and trees? These next couple of blogs will be about just that. Here at Team Gaia we believe in a better future, and I think respecting this “Law of Conservation of Energy” will help our Earth out big time in the long run. I mean, I’m sure you all knew that already. RIGHT? You only drive a macho man SUV because you completely reuse, reduce, and recycle everything else in your life, as well as also needing a bigger car to transport the eight kids you adopted from third world countries. Am I hitting home? I want to hear from you, speak up or forever hold your piece of the planet in jeopardy. It's all about dialog and dialog unites humanity - DUH! So let's get this party started - I'm on my third bull now.