Tag Archives: sustainability

Yum! Brands Makes Empty Envrionmental Gesture

What? Just because the toilet water in that KFC bathroom is rain water run-off somehow offsets the vast, fossil-fuel dependent distribution system required to transport millions of unsustainably harvested mutant chickens to your thrice-stapled American stomach?
A KFC/Taco Bell co-branded store in Northampton, Mass., has been awarded LEED Gold certification, according to Yum Brands.
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Kuntsler FTW

I had to steal this little gem from AlterNet, wherein the indubitable James Howard Kuntsler (author of acerbic urban-ecology tracts such as The Geography of Nowhere) cuts to the core of our economic crisis: Consumerism — as we have known, loved, and hated it — is dead.