{"id":1350,"date":"2007-06-14T03:14:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-14T01:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.greenmedia.md\/?p=1350"},"modified":"2007-06-14T03:14:40","modified_gmt":"2007-06-14T01:14:40","slug":"greener-postures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/greener-postures.html","title":{"rendered":"Greener Postures"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>   <a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006885.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/postimages\/toparticle\/6885_toparticlephoto.jpg\" alt=\"Article Photo\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>Do you think that lifestyle environmentalism has, well, perhaps lost its bearings, what with the biodegradable bikinis, reclaimed paper scrapbooking journals and hemp seat covers for SUVs? We do, as we said when we called on folks to make this Earth Day their last. Greener Postures targets the same empty-headed faddishness, but with more humor and dash. It&#8217;s one of my new favorite pieces of sustainability humor, right up there with the Onion&#8217;s I&#8217;m Doing My Inconsequential Part For The Environment, Spring an Environmentalist Hoax, Author Says and the Wombat. Take their dig at solar-powered bags: 5. SOLAR-POWERED BAG\u2028Wouldn\u2019t you like to carry around your own renewable energy source? \u2028Sure, should I carry a windmill? \u2028I was thinking of something less quixotic: a laptop bag with solar panels. \u2028You mean I can recharge my laptop on the go? \u2028Actually, this is more for iPods, cell phones, BlackBerries, stuff like that. It only takes one or two hours to charge those. \u2028Let\u2019s play a game. You tell me who could possibly have a use for this product, and I\u2019ll tell you why they don\u2019t. \u2028Busy city people\u2014 \u2028Can charge their gadgets at night. \u2028Travelers\u2014 \u2028Can charge in the car, train, or&#8230; (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/archives\/006885.html\">more<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>(Posted by <b>Alex Steffen<\/b> in <i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.worldchanging.com\/search\/?category=36&amp;search=Go\">Purchasing Green<\/a><\/i> at  2:01 PM)<\/p>\n<p>  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/worldchanging_fulltext\/~4\/124647594\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Do you think that lifestyle environmentalism has, well, perhaps lost its bearings, what with the biodegradable bikinis, reclaimed paper scrapbooking journals and hemp seat covers for SUVs? We do, as we said when we called on folks to make this Earth Day their last. Greener Postures targets the same empty-headed faddishness, but with more humor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1350"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1350\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/salvaeco.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}