"Fairs touting green efforts; But some struggle to follow through" by Jenny Song, Associated Press | August 23, 2008
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. - At an institution where recycling became a possibility only a year ago, a vendor doing business without plastic foam is as green as it gets. It's the same across the country, as state and county fair organizers promote "going green" this summer but many are having difficulty following through.
Fairs in California and Washington are ahead of the curve, installing solar panels to generate electricity and converting used cooking oil into biofuel. Others, like Missouri, are introducing recycling bins for the first time. The Illinois State Fair began setting up recycling bins for plastic bottles last year. But those are still scarce, compared with trash cans.
This year, the state Department of Commerce and Economic Opportunity set up kiosks throughout the grounds promoting conservation. They have calculators where people can enter numbers to determine their impact on the Earth and learn how to minimize it. "It's a good way to attract families so that they can learn about, you know, small steps they can take to reduce their carbon footprint," said Marcelyn Love, a spokeswoman for the department.
How about, first thing, NOT DRIVING DOWN to the FAIR?!!
But organizers say the fair itself cannot cut back on energy use, or at least not by much.
Yeah, that is ONLY FOR YOU, shit-swilling and -savoring 'murkn shit-eater!!!!
Vendors need electricity. Barns need to be cooled. If you don't refrigerate display shelves, award-winning pies grow mold. In California, a solar panel was installed this year that generated enough electricity to run amplifiers for an outdoor concert at Marin County's fair. Organizers of that fair touted their event as the "greenest county fair on Earth."
"We still had to use regular electricity to work the fans, the misters, to keep all the animals cool," said Clara Franco, publicist for the Marin County fair. "It's hard to go completely green. But that's not to say that little things can't be done here or there."
Yeah, like shove a fart-mist reader up your ass to measure that "carbon footprint."
Oh, yeah, btw, the PLANET COOLING NOW!!!
There are hurdles, especially concerning the crowds.
Translation: The destruction of the environment is YOUR FAULT, 'murkn fair-goer!
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Never mind NASCAR or the WAR MACHINE or the ELITE STINK SHITS JETTING and LIMOING everywhere!!!!
pfffffffffffttttttttt!!!!!!!
