Pearl Jam Offsets Carbon With Trees

electronblue

sorry, if this article has been already been posted..but i just now saw it on the AOL news thingy


http://www.gnn.com/article/pearl-jams-2 ... ide/969609

Jeanwah

While carbon credits are still questionable as to whether investing in them does anything really other than make us feel better for our own guilt of having a high carbon footprint, planting trees is never a bad thing!! What I'd like to know is though - why no bio-diesel in the trucks and vans this time, like the band did in '06.

I feel that, as Stone admits as a "business owner", the band is merely doing the easy thing here...throwing money to the environmental group while wading in the publicity just before their mini tour begins. It just sounds so stiff and business-like rather than who the guys used to be, when they got their hands dirty in their causes. Will the guys be actually helping to plant those trees? If Stone and the guys aren't there with shovels in hands, it looks like things now are just easier to just give money to and leave...a purely stiff business tactic.

aerial

Jeanwah wrote:

While carbon credits are still questionable as to whether investing in them does anything really other than make us feel better for our own guilt of having a high carbon footprint, planting trees is never a bad thing!! What I'd like to know is though - why no bio-diesel in the trucks and vans this time, like the band did in '06.

I feel that, as Stone admits as a "business owner", the band is merely doing the easy thing here...throwing money to the environmental group while wading in the publicity just before their mini tour begins. It just sounds so stiff and business-like rather than who the guys used to be, when they got their hands dirty in their causes. Will the guys be actually helping to plant those trees? If Stone and the guys aren't there with shovels in hands, it looks like things now are just easier to just give money to and leave...a purely stiff business tactic.

They are not the same guy’s....they are more mature...they have families...they don’t have the time they used to and I would bet they don’t have the energy they used to have when they were 20 and 30........heck I would LOVE to see Eddie climb along the ceiling at the next show like he did in the MTV video Evenflow ... I bet Eddie wishes he could do it to......they do lot’s of charities work....give them a break we all have to realize it’s a business....and it’s not that easy throwing that much money to a good cause...I couldn’t do it.....I would bet they are ready to settle down with there families and try and raise some decent kids and be good husbands........

electronblue

i believe doing something is better than doing nothing ~

Cosmo

Jeanwah wrote:

While carbon credits are still questionable as to whether investing in them does anything really other than make us feel better for our own guilt of having a high carbon footprint, planting trees is never a bad thing!! What I'd like to know is though - why no bio-diesel in the trucks and vans this time, like the band did in '06.

I feel that, as Stone admits as a "business owner", the band is merely doing the easy thing here...throwing money to the environmental group while wading in the publicity just before their mini tour begins. It just sounds so stiff and business-like rather than who the guys used to be, when they got their hands dirty in their causes. Will the guys be actually helping to plant those trees? If Stone and the guys aren't there with shovels in hands, it looks like things now are just easier to just give money to and leave...a purely stiff business tactic.

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They're busy changing diapers or driving minivans to the DayCare Centers.
Funny how life catches up with everyone... except me... so far... I think.
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Add... I know Stone plants trees... i helped him plant the ones here in L.A.