<div dir="ltr"><div>Nice one, Rob. Anyone interested should check out my friend Pat Manley's "Masons on a Mission":<br><a href="http://masonsonamission.org/">http://masonsonamission.org/</a><br><br></div><div>A $150 donation is enough to buy all the local materials to build a cookstove for a family plus hire a local mason.<br></div><div>None of the money goes to overhead. It gets the smoke out of the house, and is a tremendous improvement in the lives of Mayan villagers, particularly the women and children who otherwise breathe heavily polluted indoor air from the traditional way of cooking.<br><br></div><div>I'm with you on spending winter in front of a fire at home. Airplanes get roughly the same fuel mileage per passenger as 1 person driving a Prius. However, the water vapor emitted into the stratosphere causes a greenhouse gas multiplier of 2.3 on the carbon. Therefore, roughly the same greenhouse effect as driving a Hummer. Put 4 people in the Hummer and you are positively green, compared to the plane................N<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:10 PM, RT <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca" target="_blank">ArchiLogic@yahoo.ca</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><u></u>
<div>On Mon, 01 Dec 2014 13:51:06 -0500, Jason Holstine <<a href="mailto:jason@amicusgreen.com" target="_blank">jason@amicusgreen.com</a>> wrote:<br><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br> > Drink organic beer, or organic gluten-free, local, small-batch artisan vodka.<br>
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</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">> On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 9:56 AM, Gennaro Brooks-Church - Eco Brooklyn <<a href="http://info@ecobrooklyn.com" target="_blank">info@ecobrooklyn.com</a>> wrote:<br></span></font><div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"></span></font></div><div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">>> Which basically blows all my green credits to hell in jet fuel. What to do. <br></span></font></div><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt">
</span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></font><br><div>All good suggestions for "things to do" (on any day for that matter) from Jason.</div><div><br></div><div>But for a holiday to get away from New Yawk slush to warmer climes, how about:</div><div><br></div><div>(i) Build a wind-powered , ocean-going, racing, sailing yacht using hardwood timber salvaged from shipping crates that were used to deliver exotic granite slabs to NYC from places like South America, India, Africa. </div><div><br></div><div>(ii) Get in touch with MeatHook (aka Norbert Senf) and find out where his Masonry Heater Asscoiation compadres are doing one of their charitable building projects (ie the last one I recall was in Guatemala IIRC ?) and then </div><div><br></div><div>(iii) Do some research to find out what sorts of things the citizens of that country are in dire need of and do a charitable drive in NYC to gather up donations of those needed items ( ie shoes, eyeglasses, medicine, cash etc )</div><div><br></div><div>(iv) "Leak" the story to the media so that they publicise the project and get some media buzz going so that you get people so desperate to participate that they start bidding for positions as crew members on the sailboat (should be able to raise at least $50k,. Eh ?)</div><div><br></div><div>(v) Load up the donated goods and set sail for the warmer climes with all-female (simply because they do a better job with less monkeying around), volunteer crew (including volunteer Cordon Bleu chef of course) while you kick back and enjoy some of that
<span style="font-size:11pt"> "organic beer, or organic gluten-free, local, small-batch artisan vodka" that Jason mentioned</span><font face="'Times New Roman',serif">.</font>
</div><div><br></div><div>(vi) Deliver the donated goods to the Masonry Heater Assoc gang for distribution and stick around to help and learn from the Master Craftspersons.</div><div><br></div><div>(vii) When the project is complete, catch a good wind in the sails and see what she's really capable of (ie without the bulk of all that donated material) and head back to New Yawk, stopping by the Dominican Republic on the way home, if you like.</div><div><br></div><div>(viii) Back in New Yawk, if you don't have a place to dock the boat until the next holiday, sell it for a gazillionBux as a must-have GreenBling item.</div><div><br></div><div>(or hitch-hike or bicycle down to Florida and then rent a sailboat for the trip to the island if the above suggestion sounds like too much work )</div><div><br></div><div>Me ? I like winter and look forward to enjoying the brisk cold and snowy landscape here around home. </div><div><br></div><div><div>-- </div><div>=== * ===<br>Rob Tom ADT1 <br>Kanata, Ontario, Canada</div></div></div><br>_______________________________________________<br>
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