Breakthrough in Disposable Utensils?
The development explained at left may sound noteworthy, and I don’t discourage these people or anyone from doing whatever they can to slow the rate of environmental degradation. And yes, keeping plastic out of our waste-streams is a great cause.
But let’s look at this for a second.
Who, and at what expense, both financially and environmentally, is going to round up all these avocado pits and process them into utensils, then absorb the costs of product marketing and distribution? How viable will this enterprise be, especially at very low volume, compared to the $43 billion plastic industry?
I’m reminded of a would-be client, “Fertile Grounds,” who met me a few years ago and asked for my help. Their idea was to collect coffee grounds from Starbucks’ and process them into organic fertilizer. I asked how they planned to collect the coffee grounds, and they explained that they would have drivers of small trucks with routes around the nation’s cities, who would drop off this feedstock to processing plants that would dry (over heat–where does the heat energy come from?), bag it, then sell it into the market of hardware stores and large home improvement centers.
Of the two, which idea is more inane? Hard to know.
I told the “Fertile Grounds” folks that I loved their name, but advised them to keep their money in their pockets and look for another business concept. I didn’t use the word “inane” at all in our conversation. That’s how to win friends and influence people. I should have written the book.
As the November election moves closer, it will be interesting to see how many households in this largely Republican part of rural California distinguish themselves as Trump supporters, perhaps by displaying the flag at the left.
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What Gene Roddenberry says here is probably correct, but, sadly, our species seems to be headed in the opposite direction. “Differences in ideas and attitudes” are increasingly perceived as alien, and thus, threatening.
To give credit where it is due, Trump had some pretty impressive people around him for short periods of time during his tenure in office. But famously, they left, one by one, largely due to their loyalty to their country rather than to Trump himself.
I’m not sure how much information comes out on Truth Social that Trump supporters were unaware of.
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These folks ask: Curious about the decline in Christianity and church attendance? Support your congregation with learnings from this free 24-page study, including 10 practical ways to address these challenges in your community.
We don’t have access to the precise discussion between Kristi Noem and the editor she hired to prepare the South Dakota governor’s new book for publication. Yet it’s hard to imagine this happening too differently from the following:
“Biden has weaponized the Justice Department against Trump” is a Fox News talking point that most Republicans accept without actually thinking about it.
