Saturday, April 23, 2011

Today's hurricane-prevention idea: Get in your fossil-fueled car in Topeka with a paper cup, drive to Starbucks, and have hot coffee poured in that cup

Starbucks Celebrates Earth Day | TopNews New Zealand
In order to address the percolating issue of global warming, Starbucks customers have to bring their useable paper cups or tumblers in the selected stores in the US and Canada to get a free brewed coffee in lieu of it. Moreover, if they don’t have any useable cup or tumbler, they can get a 20% discount on the useable paper cups and tumblers of Starbucks.
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Responding to the spiraling acute concern of global warming, Kathleen Rogers, President of Earth Day Network, claimed, "This is really about moving people beyond environmental education and getting everybody to commit to at least one thing—as evidence, we hope, to the world governments that one in seven people on the planet has taken an action".

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