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Show ED 4 December 1996 Gp I can’t solve all of the problems of the world...I can’t even pay my rent on time. Yet I try. I try to be honest with myself about the damage I am causing. I am willing to pay higher rates for electricity, so that West Virginia won’t be strip mined any longer. I consider adobe and straw bale construc- the end of time with plastics. (don’t believe the labels on garbage bags, that say they are “biodegradable.” Yeah, and Bush was the “educa- | tion president”.) | How do we justify opposing the timber industry, lumberjacking being the single most dangerous occupation, and one of the lowest paying, when we live in houses made of these very trees we fought so hard to keep alive. How can we force environmental decisions which impact lower income people more drastically, essentially creating a regressive tax. : How do I justify publishing a newspaper when I know my choice of occupations does more to *who’s quote is this? Aldo Leopold? Highlights Each of the FIS ski and snowboard | tours is underway except freestyle — season visit to North America heads into its final weekend with vir- events Fri. and Sat. at Whistler, BC while the women compete in DH/SG and Coach Wayne Hilterbrand’s acro, tually at Vail, CO. aerials and moguls skiers get under- weekend, _ way next weekend in Tignes, France. A recap of each sport: Alpine — The traditional early no problems. Through all four men’s this races (Park City, UT and Breckenridge, CO) and _all four women’s events (Park City and Lake Louise, ALB) had ‘World and World Cup DH cham‘pion Picabo Street (Sun Valley, ID), was fourth in the first DH of the sea- been son Sat. in Lake Louise. “held; the inen hold théir first speed “FARE COUNTRY BASKET Cross country — After opening races Nov. 23-24 in Kiruna, Sweden fol- BOUTIQUE “YEAR ROUND CRAFT AND GIFT BOUTIQUE” COME AND SEE OUR GREAT SELECTION OF HANOMADE HOLIDAY GIFTS AND DECOR. 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Jumping — The ruhrgas World | Cup schedule opened over the weekend in Lillehammer. _ 7 Nordic combined a nag be festival, and, with nary a thought pitched, my tree- I can afford to build a house. I pay a little more so I can get recycled paper from our printer, and we vigorously recycle all of our old papers. Essentially I “muddle towards frugality.”* I cannot live an impact free life, but I can minimize my impact; I can pay attention to the world I live in and attempt to keep it around for the next gen- ntti How can we all justify existence’s which are by their very nature destructive to the mother earth _which we preach about so annoyingly. I ate at McDonald’s after a particularly tough Earth Day tion to be viable alternatives to wood, if and when e Unfortunately my bike isn’t made of Titanium, it is honest to goodness pig iron...but I got the point. tna but he had an excellent point. 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