Pastoral Resources

When faced with the inevitable fatigue that comes with the recycling of speeches and the recycling of thoughts in a rather small stream of vortex, I am urged to not be ashamed of recycling.

Mostly, I spend my time being a mother to my two children, working in my organic garden, raising masses of sweet peas, being passionately involved in conservation, recycling and solar energy.

We have a project with Unocal here in Los Angeles, where we as an environmental organization, the oil company, and the state all get together to promote the recycling of used motor oil.

Years ago, we all talked about recycling and not dumping things down your drain and all of that, but talking doesn't help much. Basically, it's going to have to be legislation because the impact is so huge and diversified.

But as population became denser, the natural chemical and biological recycling processes became overloaded, calling for a redefinition of property rights.

We live in a disposable society. It's easier to throw things out than to fix them. We even give it a name - we call it recycling.

In the draft plan, we're looking at recycling 20 percent of our garbage by 2010.

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling.

Increasing recycling in Delaware is an idea whose time has come and, if put off, may not come again.

The purpose - where I start - is the idea of use. It is not recycling, it's reuse.

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.

Obviously, it gave me a chance to see Barcelona. I won't deny that. But I also had a chance to see something in another country in terms of recycling and reusing nuclear material.