Latinos Are Better For The Environment Than Al Gore
Today is Blog Action Day, where bloggers around the world unite to raise awareness about the environment. The organization behind it wants every blogger to “post about the environment in their own way and relating to their own topic.” Not ones to shy away from a challenge we polled the Guanabee staff and reached the conclusion that Latinos are to the environment what Mother Theresa was to the lepers in Calcutta. Turns out, we ARE the original environmentalists:
- Latin Americans are masters at recycling: We once bought a wallet in Puerto Vallarta made out of a Coca-Cola can, a piece of shoestring, and a candy wrapper. No lie.
- Daniel never turned on the A/C unit during the summer in order to “decrease our carbon footprint”. We’re about to shove our carbon footprint up his ozone layer.
- Guanabee also buys Seventh Generation recycled toilet paper, which is a lot more expensive, and disintegrates on touch. Every time Daniel goes to the restroom we have to hear about it.
- Miskito Indians, the original greasers, have been putting palm oil on their tresses for years. Suck it, Paul Mitchell.
What about you guys? What are you doing to keep our world green?
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- Managing Editor
Daniel Mauser
- Editor
Cindy Casares
- Associate Editor
Alex Alvarez
- Contributing Editors
Gabriel Caro - Camilla Rowan
The guanabee office must smell like all kinds of funk: sweat, b.o., and fundillo. Fuchila!
Posted by pocho_guey_al_norte | October 15, 2007
What about saving plastic bags from the store and using the for everything?
Posted by Diego | October 15, 2007
You pay more and the toilet paper feels like a sandstone. I don’t get it; but whatever is best for mother nature.
Posted by Daniel Mauser | October 15, 2007
What about the pinche winos that keep trespassing into my property and jacking the cans and bottles I save. Fools take you shopping cart elswhere and pick up your own shit!
Posted by Boozr | October 15, 2007
That’s actually illegal in NYC now, but someone needs to break it to the old Chinese ladies.
Posted by ella | October 16, 2007
We helped the environment by using hand-me downs. Sure, most families use hand-me downs for their kids. But in my family, I was the last kid and the only girl…..yet I still ended up wearing my oldest brother’s moss green Wrangler jeans and red and white fair isle Mexican sweaters. No shame either……we have pictures of all three of us in the same clothes throughout the years.
Posted by MrsZ | October 16, 2007
Hackneyed stereotype, but true:
When I was young and my three step siblings moved in, making us a family of seven, we would all get packed into the body of a 2-door BMW 318i (a holdover from my mom’s dalliance with the high life…), that included a child seat in the middle of the back seat.
We would scout out for cops, and when they were nearby, the finder would call out “duck”, and the kid on the lap would have to get out of sight so we wouldn’t get stopped.
There were also occasions in which we would pack in 11 to our little ranfla, and still do the same routine when spotting a cop. The chota never caught on.
Yeah, and my grandpa used to crush cans to sell for recycling, which we would do on a regular basis. Since he would go through a few cans of Bud a night.
And my abuelita and abuelo used public transportation, the RTD, before it was known as the “Rough, Tough, and Dangerous”. My cousins and I would use the bus as kids to go to swimming lessons in the summers and then go get some Pollo de Oro (knockoff Pollo Loco) on Sunset and Vermont.
Yes, we did our (miniscule) part to minimize our huella de carbon.
Posted by pocho_guey_al_norte | October 16, 2007