The Green Path Company » Rant http://thegreenpathcompany.com/blog Thu, 27 Aug 2009 08:39:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 Lazy waste of water http://thegreenpathcompany.com/blog/2008/04/21/lazy-waste-of-water/ http://thegreenpathcompany.com/blog/2008/04/21/lazy-waste-of-water/#comments Mon, 21 Apr 2008 19:50:31 +0000 admin http://thegreenpathcompany.com/blog/2008/04/21/lazy-waste-of-water/ I saw it again yesterday.  It’s the third time in the last two weeks that I’ve seen people cleaning off their driveway and sidewalks with a garden hose!  There was a guy being interviewed on TV about the housing slump and he was hosing off his driveway, oblivious to what he was doing.  Wasting at least 80 gallons of water!  A lady was out yesterday morning hosing off her entry way and the final straw as a construction crew hosing off a sidewalk and driveway after they finished landscaping a church parking lot area.  It’s not only the waste of water that irritates me but also the fact that they are just plain lazy.  We live in a desert where water is our most precious resource and we constantly hear about growing concerns for our water supply due to population growth.  Even our water companies preach water conservation, xtera landscaping, low flow shower heads and toilets, fixing leaks, shortening shower times and people are still wasting water by the gallon because they are too lazy to push a broom.  OK, I’m done and I feel much better.  I will feel even better when I stop next time and say something! 

]]> http://thegreenpathcompany.com/blog/2008/04/21/lazy-waste-of-water/feed/ 2 What a BUTT! http://thegreenpathcompany.com/blog/2008/02/22/what-a-butt/ http://thegreenpathcompany.com/blog/2008/02/22/what-a-butt/#comments Fri, 22 Feb 2008 21:38:53 +0000 admin http://thegreenpathcompany.com/blog/2008/02/22/what-a-butt/ We did a park clean up project a few weeks back at Thunderbird Park in Glendale, Arizona.  We trimmed some trees and bushes and picked up trash along a fence line about 1.25 miles long.  We filled 4 extra large trash bags with trash!  There was everything from fast food wrappers and containers to a few shirts, a few casette tapes AND literally thousands of cigarette butts!  We had one young lady pick up 356 butts in 2 hours and we had 4 people on trash duty and we didn’t even scratch the surface on the butt issue.  It is really sickening to see how little regard people have for our parks and streets that they can’t even wait until they get home or to a trash can to dump their garbage.  I’m not sure how you educate a moron, especially since you rarely ever catch people in the act but I’d like to figure out a way to get the message out.  For now we will just continue to work with the Parks & Rec Department on clean up projects.  If you have the time please get involved and help out!

 If anyone has any ideas on ways to get the message out about littering Iwould love to hear them.

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