[Greenbuilding] Staggering 1/2 tonne per person per year cement production!

[Jason Holstine]

I donated my family's half-tonnes to a parking garage.


On 4/16/15 4:06 PM, "Frank Tettemer" <frank at livingsol.com> wrote:

> Getting back to the cement, it is simply staggering. It makes our
> individual efforts seem pointless.
> 
> /Could someone tell me who I need to contact to get my 1/2 tonne of
> cement?  :)/
> 
> ~sanjay
> 
> I don't know, either san jay, to whom we must request, in order to
> receive our own half ton.
> 
> But I do know that the efforts are, and have been, point-full. These
> steady small developments,( in lightening the load on the Planet, in
> attempting the Living Building Challenge, in becoming responsible for
> your own energy production, repair, and consumption, ) can ( & will!!)
> add up to tipping the scales, if we just keep at it for the next few
> centuries.
> 
> Think back, how 20-30 years ago, solar energy had such a lethargy of
> marketing and slow sales, and high expense.  Yet now, the accumulated
> efforts, of proponents of solar energy as a viable alternative, are now
> being viewed as credible. Many people have kept at it, year after year,
> until the scales have been tipped, and we'll get to see more and more
> villages becoming electrically self sufficient, like in Europe.
> 
> I just really would like to view all our green building, natural
> building, efforts as that of the-glass-half-full;
> quite point-full, well developed thinking, over the past three decades,
> and frankly, quite expectant of positive changes,;
> rather than to consider our efforts as the-glass-half-empty, as being
> point-less.
> 
> Opti-Mist-Me,