Nora Maccoby---patriotic duty to invest in Green stuff--cpan now.

[rodeodance]

Nora Maccoby
Nature's Partners, Co-Founder, (go to Internet)
Wash Journal.
We do not have time to fight the opposition. We just need to go our own way and do what we can to make us energy efficient--re-newables and investing in the enviroment.
Talked of investing in technology. Need to educate the 'staffers" in DC if go that route.

We in 'intelligent policy" in our government

[Chimichurri]

1. turning garbage into fuel is an excellent concept

She's framing the issue in a very inclusive way. I'm loving the ideas.

[NC_Nurse]

2. What's the link?

[GR]

3. She Seemed A Bit Flakey To Me....Kept Talking About Home Depot

but didn't explain what she meant. Said she writes films when she's not doing this. What is her knowledge of science? I would guess nada.

Everytime Bush talks about improving science education I think, well then why won't you allow the teaching of evolution and stem cell research?

[phoebe]

4. Home Depot promotes using wood from sustainably

managed forests.

http://www.planetark.org/dailynewsstory.cfm/newsid/19281/story.htm

Home Depot hopes to use its purchasing power to encourage wood suppliers to follow good forestry practices, said Ron Jarvis, vice president of merchandising for lumber and building materials. "It's an important message to send," he said.

The retailer sells about $5 billion of wood products each year, accounting for about 9 percent of its annual revenues.

Since 1999, Home Depot has bought more certified wood products and reduced sales of lumber from areas with questionable forestry practices, it said in a report prepared for environmental and government groups.

The number of vendors providing Home Depot with products certified by an accrediting group, the Forest Stewardship Council, has grown to 40 in 2002 from five in 1999. The Atlanta-based company's purchases of such products soared to over $200 million last year from $20 million in 1999.

Moreover, Home Depot said, nearly all of the cedar it now buys comes from second-and third-generation forests instead of older forests that are most at risk of extinction. It has also cut purchases of Indonesian lauan wood by 70 percent, reflecting concerns about illegal logging in the Asian nation.