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  A Climate of Religious Change

  Dave,

  Brother, get down on your knees and say AMEN! Clearly you are not familiar with Christian Brothers Investment Services (CBIS). It combines faith with finance and manages $4 billion in assets for the Catholic Church.

  Last week the company introduced a proxy resolution that will go before investors at ExxonMobil's May 25th annual shareholder meeting.  If approved, the resolution would require the company to reveal the science it used to determine that climate change is just pretend. (I suspect it's similar to the science used to determine that the earth is flat and tobacco is an herbal supplement, but that's another story.)

  ExxonMobil, of course, is one of the last big energy companies walking around with clinched teeth, white knuckled fists and veins bulging from its neck as it spits out the words, "There is no climate change!" CBIS has politely asked the company to "Prove it. Please."  

  Anyway, I too am an apathetic, agnostic, antibiotic, athiestic acidophilis.  But after reading about the CBIS resolution, I'm almost willing to take a running leap of faith, throw my arms in the air, look up at the sky and yell, "Dude. Is this, like, you know...a miracle?"

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  Mea Pulpa

  Sometimes I fail to recycle the long, thin cardboard dispensers that 12-packs of soda are sold in.  (I guess I shoulda started by saying I buy 12 packs of soda, made with insulin-spiking, carb-laden, high fructose corn syrup and caramel food coloring.) Anyway, those box dispensers,(which look so handy when filled with cans on the shelf but are useless when empty) are hard to fold flat. They ruin the whole Zenlike order of my recycling bin. So I make sure no one is looking, crush the cardboard into a ball and stuff it in a plastic garbage bag. (Oh yea. That's the other thing. I don't always use recycled plastic garbage bags).  Then I quickly but deftly tie the bag shut, glance about nervously and, whistling nonchalantly, carry the contraband parcel to the curb.

  Of course, being a good Catholic, it's a sure bet that the plastic bag will degrade long before my guilt will.On What's your secret eco-sin? posted 4 years, 6 months ago 84 Responses

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  Mea Pulpa

  Sometimes I fail to recycle the long, thin cardboard dispensers that 12-packs of soda are sold in.  (I guess I shoulda started by saying I buy 12 packs of soda, made with insulin-spiking, carb-laden, high fructose corn syrup and caramel food coloring.) Anyway, those box dispensers,(which look so handy when filled with cans on the shelf but are useless when empty) are hard to fold flat. They ruin the whole Zenlike order of my recycling bin. So I make sure no one is looking, crush the cardboard into a ball and stuff it in a plastic garbage bag. (Oh yea. That's the other thing. I don't always use recycled plastic garbage bags).  Then I quickly but deftly tie the bag shut, glance about nervously and, whistling nonchalantly, carry the contraband parcel to the curb.

  Of course, being a good Catholic, it's a sure bet that the plastic bag will degrade long before my guilt will.On So tell us ... what's your dirty little environmental secret? posted 4 years, 6 months ago 84 Responses