This post will be removed pretty soon. I just need a little help.
I'm supposed to write a paper for my English class on sustainability (everything in this class is about sustainability, it's getting rather old, really...) but, I have NO idea what I should do it on.
Does anybody have any ideas?
I mean, we're supposed to do something about, like, "green washing" and "local washing"... don't know what those are? Do you know the term "white washing"? It's where someone takes an old, broken down, decrepit building and paints it white to make it look pure and clean and new. We have to do something like that, only with "green" or "local".
Here in my town, we have TONS of local stores that say, "Come in and buy this shirt made of locally grown, or natural, ingredients!" But, they don't include the fact that the ingredients had to be picked and shipped all over the nation to be made into the fabric, then shipped elsewhere to be made into a shirt, just to be shipped back here. So, you might be buying a product made of materials from Montana, but the amount of Carbon Dioxide and waste that went into making that shirt doesn't make up for it being locally grown. It's STILL wasteful.
That's what we're supposed to be getting at, but I have NO idea what to do or where to start. Does anyone have any ideas I can bounce off of? I'm just at a loss...
Thanks for reading, and your help is greatly appreciated~!
~Yosei~
