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How did you celebrate Earth Day?

John SD

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I didn't do anything special except eat meat and potatoes for both dinner and supper! :wink: Here's an article I found on a favorite blog that keeps up on this stuff.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/environment/2009-04-21-Carbon-diet_N.htm#Close

The blog can be found at http://www.advocatesforag.com
 

Big Muddy rancher

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We eat beef raised here on the ranch that ate grass that helped the carbon cycle. It was hauled 50 miles to process and back. probably the next carbon foot print on that beef was less then a bag of chips at a grocery store. They always seem to forget that some places are better suited to raise cattle the veggies.
 

Mike

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I burned about 60 gallons of diesel while applying 3 separate herbicides in some pasture and vegetable crops.

Plus I turned some cows in a "Creek Bank" area that is set aside in an "Equip" program.

I started to set some old tires and motor oil on fire that has been accumulating. That would have made my carbon footprint reach for miles.

I saved the earth by putting it off for another day.
 

per

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Aerated and dragged mole hills. Snow ended my day so I though I would road the thing home the 20 or so miles. Nicely was on my way when a tire came loose as I was about to enter a very busy freeway. Was only a mile away from my sisters place so jury rigged it to head for there. Crossed the freeway and made another half mile an the wheel passed me. Caused a bit of a traffic jam. Drove to her house on the remaining wheels without further incident. Re lit the pilot light in the shop so things would be warm in the morning to dig out of the snow storm.
 

Texan

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Mike said:
I burned about 60 gallons of diesel while applying 3 separate herbicides in some pasture and vegetable crops.

Plus I turned some cows in a "Creek Bank" area that is set aside in an "Equip" program.

I started to set some old tires and motor oil on fire that has been accumulating. That would have made my carbon footprint reach for miles.

I saved the earth by putting it off for another day.

Sounds like it was a productive Earth Day for you, Mike. The only way that could get any better is if you had come home to find the little woman had a nice young Spotted Owl searing on the grill. :lol:
 

Mike

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Texan said:
Mike said:
I burned about 60 gallons of diesel while applying 3 separate herbicides in some pasture and vegetable crops.

Plus I turned some cows in a "Creek Bank" area that is set aside in an "Equip" program.

I started to set some old tires and motor oil on fire that has been accumulating. That would have made my carbon footprint reach for miles.

I saved the earth by putting it off for another day.

Sounds like it was a productive Earth Day for you, Mike. The only way that could get any better is if you had come home to find the little woman had a nice young Spotted Owl searing on the grill. :lol:

Funny you mentioned Owls. :lol:

There's a big one that comes around and has killed a few chickens and ducks lately. Been trying like heck to get a shot at him.

Should I pick his feathers, or just skin him? Got any recipes? :lol:
 

Mike

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I'd just do him like you do the Bald Eagles.

I throw those in the back of a neighbors pick-up when he's parked at the store. :wink:

Didn't know I could eat those too. :???: :lol:
 

burnt

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Mike said:
I'd just do him like you do the Bald Eagles.

I throw those in the back of a neighbors pick-up when he's parked at the store. :wink:

Didn't know I could eat those too. :???: :lol:

Somebody told me they taste a lot like trumpeter swans. :???: :???: :wink:
 

PORKER

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Spread some fertilizer on this sand to get the grass agoing,fixed some fence in a far pasture that some stupid snowmobiler cut because he wanted a shortcut to the Ranch House bar . Then spent an hour picking beer bottles ( Back Ache )along his route for earth day to keep the dam pasture clean. What's bad was the chew spit in most of the Bottles !
 

Kato

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I played in the earth transplanting peppers. Then scraped a ton of it (well, it was partly earth :wink: )off my boots after slogging through the corral to sort some feeders. Spent a couple of hours in the laundry room removing it from everything else we own. Then polished the day off by sweeping it up off the kitchen floor.

It was a very Earthy day. :wink: :D :D :D
 

hypocritexposer

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I spent the day doing some searching for books on Global warming, but found an interesting book on just the opposite. After reading a little of it at the book store, I decided to come home and sit in the hot tub with my Winter jacket on.

Hoyle concluded, "There is no chance of avoiding another ice age, unless we take deliberate action to prevent it."

I've attached a bit of a book review!
Thirty years ago, Leftists were writing books like, The Weather Conspiracy: The Coming of the New Ice Age, which made the case that the CIA was deliberately concealing scientific evidence that the world was about to enter a dangerous cooling period. The book demands fuel economy, recycling, better insulated homes or we were all doomed (does this sound familiar?)
 

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