Comments on: Reusable grocery bags really are green

By: Proposed Boulder plastic bag ban: authoritarian environmentalism that suffocates freedom & creativity « energy

Fri, 16 Apr 2010 22:40:06 +0000

[...] about reusable canvas bags? I use one from Vitamin Cottage, but should I? Canada’s National Post reported that “two independent laboratories found unacceptably high levels of bacterial, yeast, mold and [...]

By: Boulder plastic bag ban: authoritarian environmentalism that suffocates freedom & creativity | wakalix

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 01:36:37 +0000

[...] canvas bags? I use one from Vitamin Cottage, but should I? Canada’s National Post reported that “two independent laboratories found unacceptably high levels of bacterial, yeast, mold [...]

By: Conrad

Conrad — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 14:19:33 +0000

I live in Toronto Canada and as of June 1st all the stores I visit started charging for plastic bags and heavily pushing the re-usable type. Previous to June 1st only the lower end stores that provided boxes charged for plastic bags. It’s quite a disappointment.

By: JD

JD — Thu, 28 May 2009 19:44:11 +0000

Quite so. The law of unintended consequences strikes again. And yet again the call for controlling the control goes out. JD
http://www.okgetreal.com

By: Michael Fitzgibbon

Michael Fitzgibbon — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:54:10 +0000

Keith – thanks for writing about this and for noting the pressure the WWF puts on Canada for environmental issues. Unfortunately, our politicians cave in to such pressure. Canada has taken a lot of abuse from environmrntalists lately for pulling out of Kyoto, expanding the fishery and sanctioning the seal hunt. Most importantly, you commented about “living”. Where the seal hunt is concerned, our northern communities rely on it as one of the very few industries that form their economic base. PETA would have it taken away from them so they can either live in abject poverty or be forced to leave the land they own for other territories in order to earn a living. It’s PETA’s declaration that seals have more rights to live than humans and it’s rather irrational.

By: Jack

Jack — Wed, 27 May 2009 02:00:51 +0000

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4969413.ece

By: Joseph M.

Joseph M. — Tue, 26 May 2009 22:26:12 +0000

Yet another great victory in the Green fight. They replace things that are “evil” with things that are even worse! Take the “energy efficient” light bulbs for example. You know, the ones filled with mercury that require special processing and handling to dispose of.