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Green skiing slopes
In your upcoming ski vacation - be on the lookout for the ski resort to be not only white, but also very Green:
It makes a lot of sense when you come to think of it:
Ski resorts have abundant sun, wind, height differentials, and more than most of us - are suffering from the warmer weather causing shorter skiing seasons.
Today's, the FIS ski championship downhill run was held in St. Moritz. As I watched the skiers, I noticed the shadow of a whirling blade - coming from the resort's wind turbine, located high up on the mountain.
It seems many resorts have already turned green - using wind energy powered chairlifts, solar panels, bio mass energy recovery, environmentally conscious building (with solar heating, earth heating, effective insulation) etc.
Even Hanukkah is now Green!
It now seems that people are not even willing to light all their Hanukkah candles, in order to be Green.
Word has spread over the web (and mainstream media) calling for Jews to light one candle less this year:
"In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is encouraging Jews around the world to light at least one less candle this Hanukka to help the environment.
The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.
So we've already established that 2007 will be a green year. And that public opinion has tipped.
But as in every social epidemic: There is a tipping point, after which things start to go a bit insane.
Have we reached that point already?!
(Hanukkah candles: left in a box there is no pollution... or maybe there is?...)
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