http://www.greenphillyblog.com Philadelphia's resource for environmental news, companies, events & recycling do's & don'ts Wed, 08 Feb 2012 21:27:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.greenphillyblog.com/2009/05/20/mascots-for-global-warming/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=mascots-for-global-warming http://www.greenphillyblog.com/2009/05/20/mascots-for-global-warming/#comments Wed, 20 May 2009 12:34:55 +0000 Julie http://greenphillyblog.com/?p=3267 I love mascots. The Phillies Phanatic is the best entertainment for baseball, the Nittany Lion did the complete Napoleon Dynamite dance in between quarters at Penn State... and even Swoop is entertaining to watch. My least favorite mascot? Polar bears. Cute, white Coca Cola symbols may have been what came to mind when you thought about polar bears ten years ago. Now, most people associate polar bears as the "mascot" of global warming. Even Coke is promoting a fund to save these animals instead of using them as "marketing material." Environmental action groups constantly send out emails requesting funds to 'save the polar bears' featuring pictures of these beautiful animals dying from ice melting around them.

]]> http://www.greenphillyblog.com/2009/05/20/mascots-for-global-warming/feed/ 3 http://www.greenphillyblog.com/2008/10/06/vice-presidential-debate-green-perspective/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=vice-presidential-debate-green-perspective http://www.greenphillyblog.com/2008/10/06/vice-presidential-debate-green-perspective/#comments Mon, 06 Oct 2008 22:20:51 +0000 Julie http://greenphillyblog.wordpress.com/?p=1336 Hopefully you tuned into the vice presidential debate last Thursday evening after the Phillies beat the Brewers. In case you missed it, here's an 8 minute summary**. So what eco-discussions did you miss? Republican Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin proposed energy independence from foreign sources as the solution to our current energy crisis. Her ideas:

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