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   inkedbuddha Posted 2:55 am
   19 Mar 2007

   like a giddy schoolgirl

   Gosh, I know it isn't decorous to gush, but I just love the gristlist. This is some of the best info I get all week (and I am on a lot of enviro and transport listservs!). Thank you thank you thank you for another great list!

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   givemejava Posted 5:31 am
   19 Mar 2007

   can we stop the male bashing please?

   A review of that study indicates that it is wealth, not gender that is the main factor in increasing the carbon footprint.  Personally I am tired for taking the blame for the ills of the world simply becasue I have testicles.  Can that woman following me in her SUV claim the same carbon footprint I have on my motorcycle (at 50+ MPG)?  I think not.

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   Rune Posted 3:59 pm
   19 Mar 2007

   Women do most of the consumer shopping

   Yeah, the male bashing is counter productive.  We need to be united in reducing consumption, promoting conservation, and last and least, converting to renewable and carbon free energy sources.  Alienating an entire gender based on faulty logic and too little research isn't the way to pull that off.

   But, if we did want to know who is shopping until they drop (and the planet withers), wouldn't it make sense to ask the people in consumer marketing who does most of the retail purchasing?  Well, as it turns out, BusinessWeek did just that a couple years ago.  Here is a bit of what they said:

   . . .  Who's the apple of marketers' eye? It's not free-spending teens or men 25-50. It's women, thanks to their one-two punch of purchasing power and decision-making authority. Working women ages of 24-54 -- of whom the U.S. has some 55 million -- have emerged as a potent force in the marketplace, changing the way companies design, position, and sell their products.

   Women earn less money than their counterparts -- 78 cents for every dollar a man gets. But they make more than 80% of buying decisions in all homes. . . .

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   GonzoDon Posted 2:42 pm
   21 Mar 2007

   Carbon-neutral women

   Women have incredible control over our environmental future.  If every woman in America would refuse to have sex with any man who drives a gas-guzzling SUV, I guarantee our energy-squandering culture would dramatically reduce its greenhouse gas emissions within weeks.

   And don't chuckle too hard, readers ... I am only half-joking here ...

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   cbr Posted 7:42 am
   22 Mar 2007

   male bashing?

   I think some people may have taken the phrase "men are screwing the planet" a bit more seriously then needed. After all, its not like women don't have beer farts or actually live to go shopping as the rest of the title implies.    It makes sense to find out who exactly is leaving the biggest footprint via air travel so that we can figure out how to talk to them. Similarly, it is essential to realize that women hold the purchasing power when it comes to consumer goods. This is about how to be effective in reaching people, not who is more to blame.
   

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