On Becoming a Locavore!

That's it, I'm joining the latest green campaign, I'm going to become a locavore! What the heck is a locavore you ask? It's the new environmental movement to eat produce from within 100 miles of your home.

I already grow my own produce, so I'm within the 100 yards rule! I make my own pasta sauce, pickles, salsa, pickled beets and for fruit, frozen raspberries and raspberry wine, all from my backyard! That should keep us over the winter. For protein I will have to send my husband out deer hunting, if not deer, we have plenty of rabbits in the neighbourhood, so it's all good.

Now that I have joined the locavores, I want to push all my soul mates to expand the list to include more than just produce. Why restrict the 100 mile rule to only locally grown produce? I want all goods and services bought to be produced within the 100 mile limit! That rule includes AVON products, seeing as they are trying to be so environmentally friendly.  Some of the products environmentalists will be happy to see on the list are vehicles, oil and gas, energy, lumber, steel, clothes, shoes, furniture and appliances, computers....really the list is endless.

Seeing as capitalism is so bad, this should totally destroy those capitalist pigs! We know how Walmart buys most of it's products from China, so this rule would stop them in their tracks. Only people in southern Ontario would be able to own cars, but they can't get any gas within 100 miles, so that takes millions of cars off the road. Flying over the 100 mile limit would not be allowed, so get those bikes out and start heading to the next eco-party in South Africa...make sure you have a sailboat waiting when you reach the ocean. Remember, no oil or gas unless it's produced within 100 miles of your location, you could close the "dirty" oilsands down within days.

This will reduce our carbon foot print in no time.  I think I'm on the right track....but seems to be a really bleak dismal existence, maybe I'll rethink my becoming a locavore.

AVON, Is The Ding Dong Calling!

I emailed AVON, and finally got a response. It was the same response that everyone got. They never answered my question, "Is your product produced within 100 kilometers of Edmonton?".

Nope they sent out a standard "cover your ass" email. Monster does an excellent dissection of the email.  

A while back I sent an E-mail to the Avon people about my displeasure of their GREEN attitude towards the Alberta Oil Sands.
Message:So you would rather use blood oil from Saudi Arabia or Nigeria rather then Alberta`s clean oil. That’s fine. I will just have to tell you that your products are no longer welcome in this household and any that are already here are now in the trash.

Monster and I got the exact same email. Go to his site to read the email, it is enlightening in AVON's obvious lack of knowledge of Alberta and the Oil sands. Trees? Hello AVON, trees don't grow in oil soaked sand. You are supporting more trees being killed

Christmas concert tonight was wonderful. My oldest rocks with his trombone! I am so proud of him. Bake sale went well... the band needs the money to be able to go perform at Disney World. How come  there is no money for bands, and no money for trips to Quebec? Who is getting all the federal dollars in support of arts and language. I can attest to the fact that we have paid FULL price for my kids to go to Quebec and Seattle (jazz band). We have had no tax deduction. I don't want special treatment, just fair treatment.

Where is all the "cultural arts" money going? Not to kids in junior/high school. What I have seen, is that we pay full price for any extra curricular activity our kids want to take, and the supposed "artists" demand grants for their survival.  Get a job, you are not special.

Ding Dong, Avon Calling!

Avon is jumping on the ban oilsands band wagon. Let's see how long it takes them to jump back off. Email Avon Canada, "the company for women", and let them know what you think of their environmental program.

Avon avoiding Alberta oil

American cosmetics giant Avon has announced it will avoid using fuel derived from the oilsands to distribute its products.
Vice-president Tod Arbogast says they've asked their transportation partners to avoid high-impact, high-carbon fuels such as those from the tarsands.

Here is a sample of what I emailed them:

I am trying to be environmentally friendly, and would like to purchase products within the 100 kilometer limit. I am wondering if you produce any of your products near Edmonton?
I purchase my oil within the 100 kilometer limit that environmentalists impose on us, where do you purchase your oil? As a self proclaimed "company for women" you wouldn't be purchasing your oil from Saudi Arabia would you? You do know that they don't even let women drive there don't you? Not to mention honour killings and stoning of women, please don't tell me that you purchase "blood" oil!

I guess they think CO2, a harmless substance that plants convert into oxygen, is more important than women being oppressed. They are now on my boycott list, and I will tell all my workmates about their callous disregard for woman's rights. Maybe they should rethink their boycott of Alberta oilsands oil, and then I can rethink my boycott of their products. Oh, forget it, the damage is done, just like I will never again shop at Gap, or Bed, Bath and Beyond, I will never buy their product again.

Aaron Sanger of ForestEthics, which is co-ordinating and helping implement the anti-oilsands campaign, says the companies are calling into question the social licence of oilsands fuel.

We need to use the econuts (very few of them are actually environmentalists) weapons against them, and hold companies that jump into the eco-madness before they think to account. Hey ForestEthics, how much is Soros paying you? Tell those companies who want to boycott the oilsands that you are respecting the 100 kilometer limit and therefore their products can not be purchased. Tell the econuts that they should not be traveling thousands of miles to Cancun for a two week vacation, they are breaking their own 100 mile rule. Start making them accountable for their own actions.

An Alberta business lobby group, called the Alberta Enterprise Group, is now calling for a boycott of Avon products in response to the company's announcement.

I like this group, they are standing up to the econuts, and calling out the companies that think they will get brownie points for being "green". Start using the power of the purse to stop those companies who want to hold you to account, while they produce their products in polluting China. How hypocritical of them!