Guthier Day

Today is Earth Day, a time for everyone to pause and consider what they can do as individuals to help the environment. For instance, recycling, using less plastic, biking instead of driving, rowing out to the keelboats instead of taking the motorboat, eating less meat (meat production is inefficient), protesting nuclear power, protesting monkey abuse at the UW Primate Center, protesting child abuse (we're all children of the Earth), and so on.

Earth Day also provides a chance to pause and appreciate the beauty of the natural world. Lake Mendota, for instance. It's pretty right now--before the iridescent slime of summer arrives like a spilt tanker of green paint. The photo above is a good example of why we need Earth Day. It shows the new Union parking garage under construction. Note how it will almost completely block the view of the lake from Langdon Street! Alas, it would have cost more to make it entirely underground. What's worse, the new enlarged garage will encourage more driving and less walking and biking. The planners/perpetrators must have been high when they designed and approved this thing.

And yet, Union management claim that the Wis. Union is "green"! Let's try to make sure Hoofers at least is as green as possible. Beer drinking is green because beer is a natural product of, um, plants and stuff. Happy Earth Day!