How to Reduce Plastic Waste. Simple Actions Anyone Can Do. #1. Never Buy Bottled Water. Filter Tap Water Instead.

Here's the Consumer Reports Guide of Filters that Remove Pollution from Tap Water... : 

https://www.consumerreports.org/home-garden/water-filters/

Did You Ever Notice that Water Bottled in Plastic TASTES like Plastic?  That's Plastic Going Into Your Body... 

Of Course, If You Shower in Toxic Waste Water... That's a Problem too... Your Skin Absorbs the Poison... That's Why a Whole House Filter is Best... Contact Your Local Plumber for advice and installation... or MOVE to a Safer Neighborhood. 

#2. Stop Drinking Coke... It's often packaged in Plastic Bottles... So is Pepsi, RC Cola, Mountain Dew and Generic Cola... I personally LOVE the HIGH I Get from Caffeine and Sugar... Especially when driving a car long distances! That's FUN! 

However... It is Possible to Simply Take Those Two Drugs without Dissolving them in a Flavored and Carbonated Beverage... TRY COFFEE... I Remember putting Brown Sugar and Nutmeg in a Cup of Coffee at the Coffee Shop and I FELT OPTIMISTIC! Buzzing Like a Bee and Enthusiastic About Life! Whee! 

Or Drink TEA... Or Drink Fruit Juice Made from a Concentrate... Avoid the Plastic Bottles!

Of Course, Caffeine is sold at the drug store in PILL Form... Especially Interesting is the Combo Pills with Aspirin, Acetaminophen and 65 mg Caffeine... Pain Relievers and Stimulant... Keep taking those and You'll end up driving from San Jose to Seattle... Whoosh! Whoosh!

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The Myth of Plastic Recycling... 

For many, recycling feels like a tangible way to personally combat climate change and to positively affect the environment. That's partially because of decades of public environmental campaigns, advertisements and even school education aimed at increasing recycling. But the reality is that only a small fraction of plastic is ultimately recycled...

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/08/1141601301/the-myth-of-plastic-recycling

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Exorcism at the US Capitol 1/3/2023. Surround the Building and Blow Whistles, Beat Drums, Dance, Chant. Burn Sage and Welcome the GOP House Members... 
https://gvan42.blogspot.com/2022/12/exorcism-at-mar-loser.html

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I recently Got an Email showing me the Ecological Awareness Artwork of Benjamin Von Wong...

 https://blog.vonwong.com/turnofftheplastictap/

https://www.vonwong.com/

"There’s something really interesting about the idea that someone can make a living off of creating something that has no value except the value people associate to it." 

https://phlearn.com/magazine/ben-von-wong-creates-powerful-images-to-help-the-environment/

#3. Notice the Plastic Crap you consume and Simply Buy Less of it. I own an iPhone 6 and It Does Everything I Want a Phone to Do... "THEY" Keep on telling me to Buy a NEW IMPROVED Model... TV Ads Promoting the iPhone 14 and YET... I'm Already Happy... Why Buy More Plastic Crap? 

I own a Toshiba Laptop but the Hard Disk Drive Failed and... It made more sense to Replace the Entire Machine with a Chromebook than have the Hard Drive Fixed or Replaced... and the Chromebook Doesn't Have a Hard Drive so it's Impossible that the Hard Drive will fail... 

#4. Stop buying music CDs... Everything is available online for Free on Youtube... so... stop buying Plastic Ware! 

https://youtu.be/qMaJWESoZlk

#5. Buy High Quality Tools that Last a Lifetime... I Have an Yamaha Acoustic Guitar and It Will Still be Wonderful 50 Years from Now... Look at Willie Nelson's Trigger... 

#6. I watch Kids Cartoons on TV and The Advertisements Aimed at Children Promote Endless Streams of Plastic Crap...  My Grandfather Make a Toy Train Set out of Wood and My Brother and I Both played with it... His Daughters Played with it... and His Grand Daughters Played with it... 

The Plastic Crap Toys are designed to break, be thrown away... and then the Parents need to buy MORE MORE MORE!

#7. Plastic Knives, Forks, Spoons, Plates and Cups... REALLY! Simply Use Real Utensils and Wash 'em... My Great Grandmother Got Engraved Silverware for her Wedding and We Still Have It... 

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Please Email Me Your Ideas for How to Reduce Plastic Waste... gregvan(at)yahoo(dot)com or leave a comment below... 

I remember Going to Farrell's Ice Cream Parlor in San Jose, CA for Barry Hill's (LGHS class of 1972) Birthday Party. We ate a ZOO and then went back to his House and Listened to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida on the Record Player.

The Sugar Got Me High and It was a Wonderful Experience to hear That Song for the First time on a Good Loud Stereo... I like listning to Music on the Television while I Type of Facebook. Today I Heard "Conquistador" by Procol Harum - and that Triggered a Memory... I Went to Berkeley and Saw them in concert with Doug Stoner RIP (class of 1972) - We were very Lucky because Robin Trower was Still in the Band...

Republicans Hate tRUMP. Democrats Hate tRUMP. That Guy Living in His Van Down by The River Hates tRUMP. NOTICE A FREAKING TREND?

When the President of Turkey said JUMP... 

tRUMP asked How High on the Way UP!

tRUMP Has Blood On His Hands.
ISIS Prisoners Escape... 

Butterfly Freakout free coloring book art by gvan42

Feel Free to Print This Art and Color with Felt Pens...

tRUMP: Liar, Liar Pants on Fire! 

Embroidered Baseball Cap For Sale! 

You may Change the Words if You want To... 

For Example: say the exact Opposite! 

Trump: NOT a Liar, Liar, His Pant's ARE NOT On Fire!

tRUMP: Liar, Liar Pants on Fire! Embroidered Baseball Cap
by gregvan

Trump's Failed Economic Plan: Push the Date of the Next Recession to AFTER the 2020 Election... Have the FED Lower Interest Rates to Sugar Boost The Economic Numbers... That Way the Consequences of The Insane Trade War Will NOT Happen Until It's Too Late for Voters To React.

and then Laugh, Laugh, Laugh at the Suffering!

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/why-next-recession-likely-happen-080130857.html

Well, Isn't That Special? I'm reminded of The Church Lady whenever I read the News... Trump want's to Sell Weapons to Saudi Arabia? The People who CAUSED 9/11/2001... Well, Isn't That Special? Trump Locks Children Up in Cages? Why would he DO THAT? Could it be SATAN?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FuJpalsj9sQ

or is it Two Wild and Crazy Guys? 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGv6uo89yMY

Ignoring the Failed Trump EPA, Automakers Sign a Deal with California  to make Fuel Efficient Cars... sending a Message to The Evil King Donald: "UckFay OuYay, OnaldDay... OuYay UckSay... AnkerWay!" 

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/25/745389326/california-signs-deal-with-automakers-to-produce-fuel-efficient-cars

The Failed Trump Ecology Plan: Let's Just Ignore Reality and Let The NEXT Generation Worry About the Mess We Made! As Long as "The Donald" and My Rich Friends are Making More More More Money Everything is Wonderful! War on science! Trump officials are censoring warnings about the climate crisis, moving critical agencies out of Washington and enacting far-reaching changes in what facts regulators can consider when they choose between industry and the public good.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/jul/26/war-on-science-trump-administration-muzzles-climate-experts-critics-say

Chuck Collins: Reversing Wealth Inequality... a Video about HOW to fix our Country... Practical Steps Forward... 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eVXyaG7VByY&feature=youtu.be 

We are living in a time of extreme inequality, and few places are more unequal than the United States. America’s 20 richest people now own more wealth than the bottom half of the rest of the population combined. Scholar and activist Chuck Collins argues that these inequalities have their roots in forty years of the powerful and wealthy rigging the entire system in their favor. He proposes a wide range of public policies to roll back decades of accelerating inequality, analyzes the barriers to progress, and shows how transformative local campaigns can be made into a national movement for change.

Collins is a senior scholar at the Institute for Policy Studies where he co-edits Inequality.org.  He is author of, “Is Inequality in America Irreversible?”; “Born on Third Base: A One Percenter Makes the Case for Tackling Inequality”; “Bringing Wealth Home, and Committing to the Common Good”; and “99 to 1: How Wealth Inequality is Wrecking the World and What We Can Do About It”.

and then... on a Different subject... 

Marci Shimoff on The Aware Show with Lisa Garr... She wrote the Book "Happy for No Reason!" and watching this show made me... Everybody Say It... Happy for No Reason! Awww, look at that face... an Organic Earth Mother... MY FAVORITE!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYRkvSkrbSA

At Narcotics Anonymous I found help with quitting Marijuana and Tobacco... and now... Sugar...

You get to choose your own drugs to get help with... Many other members choose to use marijuana and doctor prescribed pain pills... but... that's their own way...

For me, it turned out that Oregon Legal Marijuana was more than I could handle. I smoked it all day every day for about 8 months and then quit totally. I wanted to take a springtime driving vacation and did not want to have a confrontation with the police. At that time Marijuana was Illegal in California where I live and camping out in my van often triggers meetings with law enforcement... so, I just left the marijuana at home when I set out on my voyage...

What I didn't realize was that the vast quantities of THC stored in my body kept me stoned for about a month... without smoking at all. I was making decisions based on my intoxicated view of reality... as it turned out, sometimes I experienced events that didn't happen...

So, I ended up in a hospital with an infected blister on my foot. I was doing a lot of walking around and needed medical attention. The doctors treated my foot and also tested my blood... I tested positive for THC even though I had not smoked in a month... I was staying at the hospital enjoying good food, nurses and cable TV when THE POLICE CAME INTO MY ROOM. They asked me to go downstairs and get in an ambulance that took me to a mental hospital... I tried to explain to them that I did not need any Mental Health treatment but they insisted... I was handcuffed to the gurney and off we went...

I stayed in the mental hospital for 15 days and then the released me... It turned out that there was nothing wrong with me at all... go figure... I guess the doctors needed patients to justify their paychecks and I was an easy target...

to be continued...

Wind Power Swirl...

Hurricane Harvey says "Global Warming is Real." The temperature of the ocean gets hotter and more water evaporates... then we have more rain.

Where will all those people go live now that Houston is uninhabitable? Will they move to California? A friend of mine was living in New Orleans when Katrina hit and he ended up living in Grass Valley, California.

I wish you kids good luck in solving the question of Global Warming... Our Generation (the baby boomers) have left you with a mess.  Sorry...

1. We should close all coal fired power plants and replace them with solar or wind. Coal air pollution causes global warming...

2. We should move our office buildings closer to where we live so the daily commute to work is shorter. That way people will burn less gasoline in their cars...

3. Maybe we will all have to move to Canada because the American South has become a jungle... mangrove swamps everywhere...