I don't know whether this has been discussed much, but how can USMS support "going green," promoting and/or being supportive of being environmentally responsible for clean water to swim in as well as to drink?
Open Water swims, of course, are the perfect venues to remind us all to keep our waters clean for swimming. The Boston swim focuses on this; do other Open Water swims promote cleaner water? What do they do?
Can pool Masters swimmers, clubs, LMSCs promote being "greener"? Encouraging people to take shorter showers is one way. What are other ways?
I think it is a fine idea and good opportunity for USMS to promote this particular aspect of the environment. By the way, all the Great Lakes are down several inches, except for Lake Superior (where, at the moment, we don't have Open Water swims...but who knows, in the future???).
Jennifer Parks, Michigan Masters
Former Member
Leave it parked in the garage and in twenty years sell it as a low milage antique.
We just bought a new Tahoe..we need to do something to redeem ourselves.
Carpooling was something else I was going to mention. Think about how many people are driving to practices and meets by themselves. I know I am most of the time. Heck, this forum could be helpful in organizing carpools to meets. If the entries were online a link could be given to a forum topic for carpooling to each meet.
That's a good Idea!
Well Stud, if you're driving down you can pick me up on the way to the Sprint Classic.:bouncing:
We just bought a new Tahoe..we need to do something to redeem ourselves.
You can always redeem yourself with cold, hard cash. www.carbonfund.org/.../
Money really can buy anything!
The benefits outweigh the drawbacks, similar to nuclear power in that respect.
I live less than 3 miles from Three Mile Island. The view from here is slightly different on that issue.
-LBJ
I'm so un-green. Since buying my house 9 months ago, I've dropped over 100 trees in my yard. My plan is to burn them as soon as I'm allowed.
Compared to the south Georgia swamps burning for weeks, my carbon impact is zero.
I guess I am green after all.:applaud:
Well Stud, if you're driving down you can pick me up on the way to the Sprint Classic.:bouncing:
IS that the GMU meet? I wish I was going. I'm a GMU graduate and I've never even seen their pool, it was built after I moved to Seattle.
FYI geochuck - you use less gas driving with AC on and the windows up than you do driving hot and sweaty with the windows down. Just read an article on that.
More people die from car accidents in this country every day than have ever died in this country from nuclear reactor accidents I bet. I can understand how views may differ for those who live near TMI, but in the grand scheme of things I feel that nuclear power is a great resource that happens to be terribly underutilized in this country.
