Namaste

Al

I just noticed your plastic fish blog on the Take Back the Filter blog site.

I have been blogging for only a few months, but I am in awe at the volume of work you show in all your blogs. Do you ever sleep?

I also wanted to share something I did way back in 1968 after two of Chevron’s oil tankers collided in SF Bay and dumped oil into our central water body.

I cut my Chevron credit card into the shape of a fish and sent it back to them with a short poem:
“When you’ve killed all the fish in the seas, you can replace them with little plastic ones like these”

This was one of my first “Eco” responses, but I was just realizing my career with Caltrans, building freeways in LA, was a serious mistake.

The rest is history. Here’s a recent sample from my blog, Never Thirst:http://neverthirstpatferraro.blogspot.com/2008/10/piled-higher-and-deeper.html

Thanks for all your activism.

Blessed Unrest.

Pat Ferraro

EnviroWoman wrote:

"Finally, the TP gods smiled down upon EnviroWoman. A visit to Capers proved lucky….a single roll of Seventh Generation (100% recycled, no-chlorine bleach, 1000 sheets/1 ply) packaged in paper. But oooee the stuff was pricey, $1.39 a roll. And right next to it…paper-wrapped Main Street TP (100% recycled, 500 sheets/2 ply). Cheaper at $.89 a roll.

She struck the TP motherlode again at Dan-d-Market. There she found April Soft (100% recycled, chlorine-bleach free, 500 sheets/2 ply, and the only one to carry the Environmental Choice logo) and EcoSoft (100% recycled, 500 sheets/2 ply) both for $.99 a roll.

That was still all pretty pricey compared to the 30-roll plastic-packaged Scott Premium stuff at Costco at only $.56 a roll.

So EnviroWoman started hunting janitorial supply places and finally found one (Amre Supply) that sells to the general public and that carried the same Main Street TP found at Capers but in boxes of 48 rolls, at a cost of just $.63 a roll."

We have different brands in Canada, but I go for the single ply double rolls for a dollar. It saves on bulk on the bike trip home from the coop. Remember to look for 100% POST Consumer recycled – otherwise, it's a greenwash, as everything from wood that's not lumber is considered "recycled".

Love & RRRevolution, Tracey