I think our planet is broken.
Last Sunday it was nearly 70 degrees. People ran around wearing tee shirts in January, and ladies wore head-turning outfits. And it was not right.
On Monday every desk had a two-page green memo paperweighted by a new mug.
“Presents!” I shouted, sticking my apple sticker on my mug and going to the coffee machine. The mugs replaced the waxy paper coffee cups, and are part of the greening of our office. The memos were on our new recycling initiative, and my heart warmed, this time not from the greenhouse gases.
I mean, I’m from Minnesota, our biggest attractions center around lakes. The North Shore, the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, these are treasures. But now they compete, and lose, to Minnesota’s other big tourist attraction, a mall that you can see from outer space. So, any environmental step is good in my book. But this step had weak footing.
First, it’s January and my office still has heat issues, namely, there is too much. Which we combat with AC. Yeah, it’s not right.
And moreover, we got our memos to recycle, on … paper. Email, I mean, this is the 20th .. wait, even, the 21st century these days. Or perhaps it was our first test, to see how we held up to the new recycling initiative and the thought police were already on us with their green cardstock memos.
Nonetheless, a few days later we asked the Russian office cleaner why she threw the recycling in with the trash.
“Oh, that’s easy,” she said, “the building doesn’t recycle. You’re floor just says that they do, but no one pays me to take out the trash twice.”
Very Interesting.
“Please don’t tell anyone,” she said, “I don’t want to have trouble.”
January 14th, 2007 at 4:59 pm
It is SO FREAKING COLD in LA. What the hell is going on? It’s getting into the teens at night!