Joe Kuban : Go home, grab a cerveza and find your ecological footprint

So, last night in Environment Science we really hit on the topic that Dr. Kuban is most passionate about - this planet and basically in his words - our "rape" of it. His voice rose on more than one occasion as he tried to instill in us that while our parents had screwed up the planet, there was still a chance we could make a change.

When the lecture was over he said - "Go home, grab a cerveza and find your ecological footprint." There is a website out there where you can find your ecological footprint, basically it tells you based on your current consumption of resources where you stand.

The website is : http://www.myfootprint.org/ Go check it out and find yours. Here are my results :


Looks like I need to make some changes.

Sample conspiracy......

I belong to a website called http://www.startsampling.com/ - it used to be a cool website with lots of fun samples you could get for free....now it is a sellout with mainly offers for magazine subscriptions, or trial offers that make you order stuff etc. But, occasionally I do go in the there and get a sample of something. Recently I got some haircare samples as seen below :


This is actually a photo of MY samples [used] taken by me.....I couldn't find any stock photos on the internet. So, here is my issue, and hopefully you can get this by looking at the pics or by having a similar experience yourself. These samples come in packets, plasticy, shiny packets....similar to ketchup or mayonnaise packets only bigger.....each with a tiny slit near the top for you to tear the packet open.

Herein lies the problem.....when you use these sample packets, you are in the shower, wet from head to toe....it is virtually impossible to grasp one of these packets and open it. Don't believe me ? Try it. Now the key is to get a packet of something that has the slit on the side of the packet not jagged edges along the top. It is one slippery sucker

Needless to say, now I keep a pair of scissors near the shower....conspiracy I tell ya, conspiracy.