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  To Replace or Not

  I am reminded that although there is greater maintenance, the wood siding on my 100+ year old house has never been other than patched and painted. Of course on a house this old removing the wood also probably means having the hazard waste since there is lead in the old paint. Unfortunately, someone prior to me covered covered it with vinyl and so I feel compelled to leave that until it cracks and must be disposed. I have checked under the vinyl siding while doing a couple of repairs and the wood siding needs painted but is still in otherwise good repair. Should it need to be repaired in the future, as any siding may need to be, finding a match is far easier than any other product since wood is cut to size and the pattern is not phased out of production with time.On Umbra on house siding posted 1 year, 9 months ago 9 Responses

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  What She Said and ...

  I applaude the well constructed comments of Mrs. Rinaldi. Having visited my Guatemalan and Salvadoran friends who talk about how they sustained life through agriculture till the trans national Dole took over every square inch of the best most productive land, leaving them only the option of sending one in five to work in the factory to eek out if they are lucky enough to eat. Having lived in Montana with my rancher friends who sell to the Trans National only because they see no other option and then only by buying the ranch of the neighbor who they would like to have as a neighbor but who went bankrupt and so lost the farm and had to move away. Having friends who used to be managers in local business but must now bag at the box store for minimum wage because their pension, which came from the merger conglomerate that made their local business unsustainable, was eaten in a bankruptcy proceeding by a company focused on profit today instead of sustainability. I am willing to accept that I must no longer think of what I want but what I need. I must now think of what a sustainable future looks like. I must be the one to help provide my brothers and sisters around the world with pride in who they are because I value them as a human being and not as commodity for sale to be exploited for my good. If the box store can get itself on a mass transit line, pay its workers a living wage and treat them like people, if it can be the vehicle which ushers in this change and can shift from immediate profit to long term good (not likely I suspect in the current model) then and only then will I consider them a good thing.
  Kit RobisonOn Could chain stores actually be good for the environment? posted 4 years ago 19 Responses

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  Muscle Cars

  Ok, My vice is muscle cars. Yes the over weight behomoths that get little better that 0 miles to the gallon. My current one is even worse because I have not had the opportunity yet to finish tuning it so it belches black smoke while it races around. (and we won't even discuss the puff cans used during the body work process) Now I try to console myself with arguments like I only drive it a few thousand miles a year and I would destroy my other car driving on the dirt roads for which I made this purchase. (My other car was the smallest car I could fit my family into that got over 30 miles to the gallon.) Unfortunately, even the knowledge that buying this kept it from the scrap heap and me from cause a manufacturer to build another (causing pollution) doesn't full make the cut since I could have bought a VW or Toyota (very used) for the local dirt roads. Oh well I confess I really like the feeling and sound of engines with excessive cubic inches of gas guzzling power.On What's your secret eco-sin? posted 4 years, 7 months ago 84 Responses

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  Muscle Cars

  Ok, My vice is muscle cars. Yes the over weight behomoths that get little better that 0 miles to the gallon. My current one is even worse because I have not had the opportunity yet to finish tuning it so it belches black smoke while it races around. (and we won't even discuss the puff cans used during the body work process) Now I try to console myself with arguments like I only drive it a few thousand miles a year and I would destroy my other car driving on the dirt roads for which I made this purchase. (My other car was the smallest car I could fit my family into that got over 30 miles to the gallon.) Unfortunately, even the knowledge that buying this kept it from the scrap heap and me from cause a manufacturer to build another (causing pollution) doesn't full make the cut since I could have bought a VW or Toyota (very used) for the local dirt roads. Oh well I confess I really like the feeling and sound of engines with excessive cubic inches of gas guzzling power.On So tell us ... what's your dirty little environmental secret? posted 4 years, 7 months ago 84 Responses