So, today is Earth Day. I started thinking… what can I do to celebrate? Good thing wikihow.com provides a list of 15 ways to celebrate. I’m just going to pick my 5 favorites.

1. Reduce, reuse and recycle all day long (but after that, I’m done)
2. Sing or listen to “Earth” songs (I am going to limit this 3 John Denver songs and my own version of “Home on the Range”)
3. Consider buying a carbon offset to make up for the greenhouse gas emissions you create on the other 364 days of the year (OK, I considered it… riduculous)
4. Wear green and/or brown (because this will fix it!!)
5. Hold an Earth Day fair (because the best way to celebrate Earth Day is to use posterboard and markers)

Now that I have done my part, I encourage you to comment with your own ideas. Recycle your feces, buy some $10.00 light bulbs, or meditate (whatever it takes to clear you conscience).

Have a rockin’ Earth Day, you deserve it!

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Finally someone said it. EvilCarbon.com was nominated for the “Most Obnoxious Blogger” at the blogger’s choice awards. I say vote, vote, vote. No one has directly called me “obnoxious”, but I have been called a “sick human being”, a moron, a dumb human, a sucker, angry and a tool.

I disagree.

I did have a sinus infection last week but I don’t think that makes me “sick”. A moron describes a person with a mental age located between eight and 12 (IQ of 51-70), I scored over 120. Dumb human, who talks like that? A sucker, no. Angry, maybe a little. A tool? Not when the comment comes from this guy, Damien McGrath (damo_103@hotmail.com).

Obnoxious? Well, I just might be.

Ding, ding, ding!In the red corner we the CFL, the Canadian Football League, fighting out of the Great White North, wearing multi-colored trunks with fringe. In the blue corner (or should it be GREEN??) we have CFL’s, Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs, fighting out of third-world manufacturing facilities around the world, wearing “eco-friendly” plastic packaging with an equally green warning label.

OK, you had your instructions in the dressing room, protect yourself at all times and come out fighting.

Where do I start…

Cost

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs - Average cost $2.00-3.50
Canadian Football League - Average ticket price CA $37.50 per game ($37.63 USD)
Winner: Canadian Football League (More entertainment for the buck)

Names

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs - Daylight, Twister, Soft White, Light Effects
Canadian Football League - Roughriders, Tiger-Cats, Argonauts, Alouettes
Winner: Canadian Football League (Almost lost because of the Alouettes, a French cheese)

Warnings

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs - Contain deadly mercury, EPA has a website about cleanup and considers CFL’s hazardous waste
Canadian Football League - Trevis Smith, Ligue canadienne de football, League Awards like Outstanding Canadian and “best looking man in the CFL”
Winner: Draw (Equal amounts of sucking)

Positives

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs - Saves money on energy bill, helps clear your conscience, twisty
Canadian Football League - Better than the WNBA, only has one French Canadian team, mentions “bang bang” contact in the rule book
Winner: Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (Still needs to add “bang bang” somewhere on the packaging)

Fans

Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs - Hot hippie chicks, Al Gore, General Electric
Canadian Football League - The 8 guys in Canada that think hockey sucks, all the NCAA Division II NFL hopefuls, Fantasy Football players who have a real problem (there’s only 8 teams, guys!!)
Winner: Compact Fluorescent Light Bulbs (Sorry, I dig hippie chicks)

And the overall winner is…

A TIE!! They both suck. Read the rest of this entry »

I run a website called EvilCarbon.com. I wouldn’t say I am pro- or anti-global warming, but I am against scams and money making operations based on the fear of global warming… I think they call that fear-mongering. I posted an article on January 4th entitled, “Earthrace - A $3,000,000 wave-busting turd” and in response to the article the Earthrace people mentioned your site downwithcarbon.org, buying carbon offsets from you as the method they were going to run the race carbon-neutral.

From browsing your site it seems to me that people/companies

1. Buy carbon offsets from you

2. You buy equipment (with their money) to convert waste oil to biodiesel

3. You sell the biodiesel (you keep the money)

Sounds like a free ride to me. In my business, the people who give me money are called investors, not suckers. Maybe you guys are smarter than me. This is truly “something for nothing”… the “free lunch” does exist. I await your response at EvilCarbon.com.

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I am sure you haven’t heard about this yet.

Earthrace, a weird looking, “wave piercing trimaran”, a.k.a. a boat, will try to set the world record for circumnavigating the globe by powerboat (current record 74 days, 23 hours and 53 minutes, they’re shooting for 65 days). The catch? Earthrace will handcuff itself, Houdini style, “by running on exclusively 100% Biodiesel fuel, and with a net zero carbon footprint. Admirable goals, you might say… let’s look closer. Biodiesel fuel, while not uncommon anymore, is also not widely available. “The voyage includes twelve refueling stops at various ports around the globe. For around half of them, we are linking in with existing biodiesel producers and marketers who are sponsoring fuel. For the others however, such as Majuro (Marshall Islands), Koror (Palau) and Panama, we are shipping fuel which will be ready at the dock when we arrive.” Let me get this straight, Earthrace will guzzle over 7,000+ gallons of 100% Biodiesel fuel ($3.50/gallon x 7,000 gallons = $24,500) and leave no carbon footprint? As far as I can find, biodiesel is 74% cleaner than regular diesel. So what about the other 26%? And how exactly is the 3,500+ gallons getting to the Marshall Islands, Palau and Panama? The Gossamer Albatross? My guess regular tanker boats and trunks running regular diesel. Not to mention all the “volunteers” and support crew traveling in their cars, boats and planes to assist in the journey. That’s a lot of “zero carbon footprint” in the name of saving the earth. Nice scam guys.

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