So almost a month ago I wrote an article titled Top 100 Ways to Continue F*%#ing the Future. To be honest it got quite a bit of press and I have to say I’m somewhat proud.

I didn’t think I had the potential to generate that much conversation. But this blog and EBS’s presence in the field has drawn criticism and compliment from all over including Las Vegas (EBS was there last week for the International Builders Show), North Carolina, and Connecticut.

Some people were honestly pissed! I mean really pissed. I posted the link to our blog on LinkedIn and boy did some people freak out. For the most part it was comments like “inappropriate language in a public forum” but some were down right nasty. I actually had to remove the postings for a while there as I didn’t want to destroy our/my name.

So with that said, I have brought it back. Of course as you see above I changed the uck in the F word to symbols as per many of your suggestions. It’s a good idea. I can’t realistically expect this book to sell if I plaster the F word all over Barnes and Noble. God knows they are too noble for that.

So back to the good stuff: Here is what I’ve seen recently that pisses me off!

1. Keep promoting Green NAHB
–The fact that the International Builders Show can promote “green” (like it was their job somehow revive their industry) when their sustainability efforts fell miles - let me repeat - MILES short of those at GreenBuild. No sustainable ware, distribution material and the waste stream - I can’t even imagine!
2. Keep saying your sustainable
–WalMart’s sustainability efforts are a joke. Do they really think that putting solar panels on their roof’s will allow the public to just pass by the fact that they raped economies all across rural America and placed so many small businesses out of business. The joke is that we’ve let them get so big that they mind as well start a sustainability arm of their company to teach classes - I mean hell - they’d be good at it right?
3. Use those cleaners under the sink.
–I need people to realize how bad the chemicals are underneath your sink. These are poisons. And where does the water you release from your sink and drains go? The long and short of it - the GROUND! So when you go to plant those tomato plants and get ready right around August for those tender tomatoes, just remember where they came from. There are green cleaning products out there that don’t cost a penny more. Check out Green Works
4. Wrap that sh*t in plastic
–Do you have a pet? Well if you do lets think about picking up after them. Waste from our bodies is naturally a very compostable product. So why cover that with a plastic bag - plastic takes years and years to bio-degrade. Buy the bio bags people - they don’t cost anymore and REMEMBER to put them in the compost bin.
5. Print that paper
–Switch your paper to double sided printing. If it has this option set the printer to default double sided printing. Adobe saved $22,000 a year as a result of double sided printing. It just makes sense and we will stop wasting paper. Or if that doesn’t work then consider options like Fiberstone. Its a paper that doesn’t actually have any paper products in it - made from recycled Limestone quarries.

Ok that’s all for now - I will rant some more next week. For now keep F - ing the planet and bucking nature. . .

–The EBS Team