{"id":2360,"date":"2005-12-17T08:26:34","date_gmt":"2005-12-17T13:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/?p=2360"},"modified":"2005-12-17T09:57:39","modified_gmt":"2005-12-17T14:57:39","slug":"the-clean-air-choice-of-earth-day-canada","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/2005\/12\/17\/the-clean-air-choice-of-earth-day-canada\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The clean air choice of Earth Day Canada.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>So, what would you think would be &#8220;The clean air choice of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthday.ca\/\">Earth Day Canada<\/a>&#8220;? A bicycle, perhaps? Some kind of renewable energy? Some really brilliant Canadian enviro-social development, like a biodegradeable donut?<\/p>\n<p>Nope, a <strong>car<\/strong>; the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthday.ca\/EDy2k\/Home\/Toyota.html\">Toyota Prius<\/a>. Last time I checked, it still used petroleum (with its high environmental and geopolitical toxicity). It still causes gridlock; I see Priuses (Prii? Your moon-pie eye!) inching along the Gardiner from the GO train with all the other wretched junkers. The way I see it, it&#8217;s not looking like part of the solution. It&#8217;s a bit like having an official assault rifle for the the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.un.org\/events\/peaceday\/\">International Day of Peace<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Toyota also give out $5000 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthday.ca\/scholarship\/\">Toyota Earth Day Scholarships<\/a>. I mean, that&#8217;s nice and all, but it&#8217;s hardly giving back. If you look at all the scholarship materials, it&#8217;s carefully arranged so it looks like the event is called <a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthday.ca\/scholarship\/assets\/psas\/2006_eng_bw.pdf\"><em>Toyota<\/em> Earth Day<\/a>, with the &#8216;scholarship&#8217; on the next line. Nice cooption. Good greenwash.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So, what would you think would be &#8220;The clean air choice of Earth Day Canada&#8220;? A bicycle, perhaps? Some kind of renewable energy? Some really brilliant Canadian enviro-social development, like a biodegradeable donut? Nope, a car; the Toyota Prius. Last time I checked, it still used petroleum (with its high environmental and geopolitical toxicity). It [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4,10,16],"tags":[1013,1302,705,78,1200,85,330,404,281,1433,846,1113,650,1110,150,1121,898,765,253,161,1345,760,25,1071,184,971,793,582],"class_list":["post-2360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cars-suck","category-o-canada","category-wagdaiyf","tag-1013","tag-ack","tag-art","tag-bicycle","tag-canada","tag-car","tag-coop","tag-donut","tag-energy","tag-geo","tag-green","tag-ice","tag-ink","tag-junk","tag-led","tag-long","tag-national","tag-pdf","tag-peace","tag-rain","tag-ren","tag-renewable","tag-social","tag-tim","tag-time","tag-toyota","tag-train","tag-xt"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pQNZZ-C4","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/scruss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}