Journey To Green » commute http://www.journeytogreen.org/journeytogreen/blog my sanity check for a green world Sat, 21 Aug 2010 06:29:50 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Journey to Green is coming undone http://www.journeytogreen.org/journeytogreen/blog/index.php/2009/07/07/journey-to-green-is-coming-undone/ http://www.journeytogreen.org/journeytogreen/blog/index.php/2009/07/07/journey-to-green-is-coming-undone/#comments Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:14:09 +0000 Cynthia http://www.journeytogreen.org/journeytogreen/blog/?p=20 When I started this blog it was to try and make sense of all the do’s and don’t of the moving to a more “green” life.  Since then, I’ve gotten a job that requires me to commute almost two hours a day.  Needless to say this sucks.  Not only from an environmentalystandpoint but a physical one as well.  It was suggested that I take the train or in my case trains.  It would take me three or more hours to do so.  

In many respects the job I went to mirrors my gasoline consumption in terms of being more wasteful  because I’ve started wasting more paper, food, and time.  The company is a very heavy paper consumer, that is, they use a whole hell of a lot of paper.  In fact, they have a green committee that prints, the “green” newsletter and posts it on a bulletin board on each floor.  I found that hilarious.  What I find depressing is that less than six months ago, I was using much less paper and gas, now I feel like I walked backed to the nineties and can’t stop.

Is the green movement helpless when companies waste so much under the guise of prodouctivity?

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