that's just what all this propaganda about the environment really is. In fact, more than being simply nothing, this movement towards a more environmentally protective way of life is actually hampering my life and is costing me certain conveniences and norms that I have grown accustomed to. With my dopeness pregnant wife CVSW being a big believer in recycling and me not being a believer at all, a fly on our apartment's wall has probably been witness to many-a bicker betwixt my wife and I when she demands that I put my empty water bottles in the recycling bin and not in the garbage bin in which I had already thrown it. In a smiliar vein, the 'green' cleaning products CVSW has begun using to clean our abode are noticeably less effective than their non-green counterparts and smell worse than the sweet Windex speel which I have grown up with. Having now looked at a variety of new apartments in which CVSW and I can welcome Baby Petes, I have noticed that all the new 'green' buildings are actually more expensive than their non-green brethren. Even in my professional life, this 'green' revolution has resulted in documents being printed on both sides of the paper as a default which makes it harder to scan should the need arise to send said document to a third-party as well as longer waiting times waiting for elevators to arrive to take me up to my awesome two-sided office. Having tried in vain to avoid all things green for so long now, I have finally realized that, try as I might, everything is moving in the direction of the greenly-inferior...and the greenly more expensive!
Even my most favorite energy sucking product, the treadmill, has been unable to avoid succumbing to the strength of
the green movement. Recently, Woodway, maker of some of the best treadmills available, released pictures of their upcoming 'green' treadmill, the SpeedBoard. In many instances, people will argue that green products are better because not only do they not hurt the environment but also because they're no different from the non-green version of the same thing. Well, dear readers, not so with the SpeedBoard. Unlike the standard treadmill that I, and many other runners, have grown accustomed to, the SpeedBoard is the world's first non-motorized treadmill that derives its power from....you! Shaped like the letter 'U', the SpeedBoard "features a radical curved shape and a running belt made of 60 individual rubber slats, which move on a low-friction ball-bearing track rather than a conventional continuous fabric belt" and allows users to do interval training by running up the sloped front, running flat on the mid-belt area or even running downhill on the back portion.With the ability to generate enough power to even have a lit-up console that shows speed, distance and time just like any normal treadmill, the SpeedBoard sounds almost too good to be true. And that's exactly what it may be. You see, as with all other 'green' products I have seen, the SpeedBoard comes with a price tag of $5,500 which is in the area of twice as much as a conventional motorized treadmill.
In the end, I wonder if all these 'green' products are better for the environment not because of their ingredients but because they bankrupt their owners to the point where those owners won't be able to afford doing harmful things to the environment in the first place. Call me an anti-environmentalist or what you will but, for the moment, I'm sticking with the status quo!
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