Environmentalism and Reality Check
Environmentalism needs a reality check because too often environmental rules and regulations are used in order to prevent someone from exercising their private rights as a citizens or as a corporations to make a profit on their property or enjoy a piece of property that they own.
Too often environmental lawsuits are filed, which prevent the United States citizen from having better infrastructure, better power plants or better services. Many an environmental impact report for a major upgrade of a piece of infrastructure such as a power plant, sewer treatment facility or freeway expansion has come under fire. This adds legal costs to project and delays.
It is unacceptable to use environmental laws to prevent the forward progression of our civilization. And since we live in the greatest nation ever created in the history of mankind we need to constantly monitor our progress and better our efforts to continue to advance all we all or a and all we have built.
When environmentalists abuse environmental law invariably it hurts the American People. We should never allow environmental laws to trump common sense or the preventing of the betterment of our society or civilization. This is not why we created the environmental laws and it is not how we should be using them. Please consider all this in 2006.
Environmental Studies
Environmental Studies Schools provide education and training in the environment, including environmental science, environmental geology, conservation biology, biodiversity, ecology, International environmental issues, and global environmental science. From the oceans to the rainforests to the ozone layer to the local landfill, Environmental Studies is concerned with the health of the air, land, and water that sustain life on our planet.
The Environmental Studies curriculum includes the areas of conservation, environmental assessments on climate, sustainable lifestyles, fisheries, forests, solid waste, and fresh water issues. Environmental Studies also provide education in land use, green certification, waste management, recyclables, landfills, gas consumption, vehicles, travel, and more.
A degree in Environmental Studies can take you anywhere in the world, helping to protect the environment and making the world a better place to live. Career opportunities in Environmental Studies include environmental policy, legislation and communication jobs, natural resources and conservation, environmental advocacy, environmental science jobs & engineering jobs, environmental education jobs, environmental jobs in higher education, international environmental jobs, and many others.
If you are interested in a career in Environmental Studies, feel free to search the many options found at www.schoolsgalore.com.
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10 Easy Ways to Make a Positive Environmental Impact
How Can I Make Simple Changes That Positively Impact the Environment?
Easy Ways to Go Green
It’s the New Year. Again. Many of us decide to make changes in our lives around this time - that’s no surprise. Often, the resolutions we create for ourselves are dramatic, powerful, even overwhelming. Losing lots of weight, going vegetarian, quitting smoking - we all have our Ace in the hole. Too many years pass, however, when we lose sight of these lofty goals and before the end of the first quarter, we’re already off our game and back to smoking, back to sleeping in, off the daily scheme of going to the gym.
This isn’t a post about how to stay on track with your goals. This isn’t about making smaller steps in between milestones or pinning up a huge calendar to your wall and filling it up with black X’s every time you complete another day on the plus side.
Achieving the Goal of Going Green
I like to think about the goals I want to achieve in as realistic a manner possible. That means - what will actualizing and accomplishing my goals look like on a Tuesday at 1:30 in the afternoon, or a typical Saturday morning at 9:43. That’s more real to me, and consequently more manageable. My goal for this year? To go more green, in as many ways possible. Like many, I am willing to work for it, but I wonder if there aren’t others who would make positive changes if they were easy to accomplish, and didn’t involve too much work.
Big differences are often made with tiny, incremental shifts - one can’t tell just how much of a positive impact is being made by looking at a few of those small steps, but taken in an aggregate form, the impact can be tremendous.
That said, here is a list of ten tiny, realistic steps that I am going to take this year to go more green. If we all do what we can to even uphold a few of these things, the positive impact on our environment would be huge.
Ten Easy Ways to Positively Impact the Environment
1.) Support Farmer’s Markets
Buying local has a dramatic impact on both your health and the environment. While you achieve the goal of supporting local, organic, independent farmers, you also have the opportunity to eat seasonally and raise the bar for yourself in terms of healthy eating habits. By the way - have you ever tasted a plum, or a tomato, or even locally grown, organic salad greens? You’ll never shop at the super market again if you have taste buds.
You’ll be filling your body with produce that is at its freshest, and increasing your consumption of organic produce is incredibly beneficial. The National Resources Defense Council notes that much of the U.S. produce will travel an average of around 1,500 miles before it makes its way into your super market. The negative impact on the planet is huge - think of the pollution alone that is created in that transport.
2.) Toilet Paper
Seriously. Find it online or at your super market, local Trader Joe’s or Whole Foods. If your super market doesn’t have it - take a second and speak to customer service about ordering it, and do it every time you shop there. They’ll stock it eventually. We’re talking about toilet paper made with recycled paper. The impact on the environment in terms of the total number of trees saved each year is huge. Your bumm won’t know the difference.
3.) Cold Water Wash
Don’t personalize your laundry - sure, you like to take a warm bath, but do your old sweat socks, boxer shorts and yoga pants know the difference? A really simple thing to change in your daily or weekly routine, and the environmental impact is great. Procter & Gamble notes that if we all started to use cold water in the washing machines, we could save enough energy to light two and a half million homes for a year.
4.) Bad Bottled Water Habits
How’s this for facts: According to National Geographic magazine, Americans buy approximately 7 billion gallons of bottled water a year. This amounts to roughly 22 billion plastic bottles that eventually get thrown away, and often not in the recycling bin. Consider the (yearly) 1.5 million barrels of oil that it takes to produce those plastic bottles - this amount is enough to fuel nearly 100,000 cars for an entire year. Ways to improve? Buy a water filter and drink tap water that has been properly filtered. Order large bottle service from an organization like Arrowhead or Sparkletts, and drink from a glass at home or at work. At the very least, recycle the plastic bottles that you do use - always.
5.) Re-use Gift Wrapping Paper
Unwrap gifts with a little concern, or teach your little ones a new environmental lesson before they make a mess with the ripping into birthday or holiday packaging. The amount of paper that could be saved is astronomical, if each of us were to recycle wrapping paper from just a few gifts each year.
Get a bag or a box, and start saving bows, ribbons and neatly folded, carefully removed gift wrapping paper. No one will know the difference. Trust me. And if they do, you have the perfect opportunity to bring up a conversation about conservation, without sounding overbearing. They’ll feel great to have helped out without having done anything.
6.) Grocery Bags
When they ask you if you want paper or plastic, just say neither. Spend a dollar at the store and buy a re-usable cotton or hemp bag, and keep them in the trunk of your car for shopping. For a look at the environmental impact of both paper bags and plastic bags, read these former Green Eggs blog posts. Get creative with your kids and find blank canvas bags online - this will give your kids a chance to be creative, and paint or decorate the grocery bags to personalize them.
7.) Houseplants Can Be Your Friends
It has been noted that many green house plants can assist in the process of removing indoor air pollutants if you cultivate and care for them indoors. Plants like English ivy and others such as golden pothos practically grow themselves. Don’t worry - they’re harder to kill than keep alive. And they’ll be helping keep you alive as they fight environmental toxins in the home.
8.) Eliminate Junk Mail
Hate the junk mail that comes in your mail box just about every day? For most of us, that pile of materials goes directly into the trash. For others, it goes directly into the recycling bin. Neither party ever reads any of it, and yet it still shows up every day. Take a second and visit the Direct Marketing Association’s Mail Preference Service to register not to receive junk mail any longer. The process may take a few months, but eventually, you won’t get so much trash in the mail.
9.) Buy Bulk
Tea drinker? Couple of trips to the local coffee house every morning? Eat cereal or oatmeal? Next time you buy tea, for instance, think about choosing loose leaf over packaged tea. Reducing the amount of packaging materials that you use can make a big difference to the environment.
Think about packaged tea - there’s the card stock paper box wrapped in plastic, the paper inside, the plastic that is often wrapped around the tea bag, the tea bag, the string, the tiny staple and the tea tag. All of those materials get disposed of, typically not recycled, and much of it can be eliminated by buying bulk loose leaf tea and using your own tea infuser.
10.) Green Your Driving
No - I’m not going to make a blanket statement that we should all run out and buy a brand new Prius - it’s not going to be possible for everyone and it isn’t the only way to green up your vehicle. Further, there’s no reason to make people feel bad about failing so miserably right out of the gate when it comes to efficient vehicles.
If you can afford it, buy a hybrid. But there are plenty of other ways to do something about fuel consumption and vehicle pollution. Carpool if and when you can - you have to get over identifying with your vehicle and your alone time first, but it’s worth the small sacrifice. Bike to work if you can; you’ll be getting exercise and helping the planet at the same time.
Or just plain drive smarter when you get behind the wheel - get timely tuneups and keep your tires inflated to the proper pressure to ensure maximum gas-saving efficiency. If you take long trips on the highway (out of the way of traffic), then switch to cruise control to improve your mileage. Curb your urge to drive like your car is a weapon - take off from stops less aggressively, brake more gently and slow down when you can. The speed limit isn’t so bad. And get out of the drive-thru: either quit the fast food or park the car and walk it.
Final Thoughts on Easy Steps to Going Green
Taking meaningful yet small steps towards going greener this year can lead to real, measurable and positive change for the planet. A few easy questions here and there, changing a habit or two, educating yourself and making smarter choices - a little bit at a time is really all that it takes. Think about the many millions of people living in America, making one collective change all at once - that alone could pay huge dividends for our future.
Financial Success or Environmental Mission? Now You Can Have Both
Have you ever wished you could create a financially secure future doing something that helps the environment? Usually we have to choose between what we do for money and what we do to support the environment. Now, at least one opportunity provides both.
Imagine having a service you can offer over the internet, from the comfort of your home, that people have been waiting for at least 30 years. Imagine your prospects forwarding your marketing materials to people they know because they feel good about referring your service and are motivated to do so by a bigger mission.
It may sound like a dream opportunity, but wait…it gets better.
Now you can offer people solar power for their home. They can pay less for clean, renewable electricity from the sun than they pay now for dirty electricity from nuclear and coal plants. Who wouldn’t want to do that?
With global warming being given top priority and all the talk of building more nuclear and coal plants, people are looking for a better solution. Now you can offer them a solution that supports the environment and saves them money.
As an Ecopreneur (ecological entrepreneur) you get paid for educating people about solar power for their home. In fact, you can get paid three ways.
You can earn a substantial installation and retention bonus when their solar power system is installed and at their first anniversary for providing great customer service (from the comfort of your home).
You receive 5% of your customers’ monthly electricity bill every month for the life of their contract. If you ever wanted a commodity your customers would continue buying every month, year after year, this is it.
The third way you can get paid is by supporting a team of other Ecopreneurs doing the same thing. When you invite, train, and support other Ecopreneurs to make the same offer and build their team, you receive a percentage of your team’s sales including a 50% matching bonus on those you personally invite and 25% matching bonus on those they invite.
Just when you thought it couldn’t get any better, it does. There’s no cost or obligation to participate as an Ecopreneur. That’s right…no start up fees, no annual fees, no quotas, no website fees, and no purchase required. You don’t even have to be a customer yourself. The company even provides professional marketing materials free to download and create yourself.
Okay, I know you’ve probably been waiting for the “other shoe to drop.” Well, here it is. This opportunity is so ground floor that, as of this writing in December 2007, we are still in the pre-launch phase of our development. We are scheduled to officially launch in the Spring and we already have over 25,000 customers.
Getting involved while this solar wave is still just beginning to swell will position you to ride this enormous wave of grateful customers all the way to the bank, the beach, and beyond.
Some may choose to wait and see how we do. I personally am thrilled to be part of such an enormous grassroots movement to upgrade America to solar power.
I can’t imagine being better positioned for what will prove to be a service everyone will have. Remember not so many years ago no one had cell phones and now it’s hard to imagine life without them. Going back a bit further, when the refrigerator was introduced, everyone was still buying ice for their icebox and now it’s hard to imagine life without a refrigerator. The same will be true for solar power and we’re positioned to provide it for the masses.
You can look back and say, “I was there and played a part.” or “I had a chance, but didn’t take it.” The choice is yours. We live at a critical time in our planet’s history. Your actions matter…even the ones you don’t take.
What Is An Environmental Chiropractor And How Do They Help?
An environmental chiropractor is a person who takes into consideration of things in the environment. Certain allergies can be created from things that exist only in the outdoors, and these practitioners also know which things in the wild will be able to help solve the problems. This type of a practitioner is of natural treatment type, and they like to use other forms to help detoxify the body of impurities. Often, they work with spinal misalignments, dysfunctions and subluxations that affect the neural integrity.
An environmental chiropractor will give special detail attention to the physiological and biochemical aspects of the body. He will look closely at the structure, spinal area, and musculoskeletal, neurological, vascular, emotional and environmental relationships. They know how to incorporate into the overall treatment philosophy and they believe in total body wellness. This also includes fitness, nutrition and psychology aspect. All of these focus areas play an important roll with how our body reacts.
An environmental chiropractor is based on academic and clinical training with formal certification. They received the training by going through an accredited chiropractic college, and they have learned how to give a diagnosis and know how to do natural therapeutic procedures. These treatment procedures can include the adjustment and manipulation of articulations and the adjacent tissues of the human body. They work with the spinal column, and this includes the manual treatment of spinal irregularities for relief of related functional disorders.
The chiropractor uses a drug-free system so they work in a non-surgical science aspect. There are no pharmaceuticals involved or any type of surgery, and they are well trained to provide diagnose and consult with. They are well trained and able to refer people to other health care providers if require.
These chiropractor cares about every aspect of your daily life. This helps to give you the best benefit so you can benefit a great deal from the care you receive from a person who looks at your life so in-depth. Even modern medicine doesn’t look as closely at your life to help you as oppose to an environmental chiropractor.
Once the environmental chiropractor has you feeling good, the main goal is to keep it maintained. This is beneficial as you don’t want the pain to keep coming back.
Environmental Debate - Real Versus Artificial Christmas Trees
What you need to know to make an eco-friendly choice this Christmas season. Did you know that an acre of Christmas Trees produces the daily oxygen for 18 people?
As the holiday season draws near, many families engage in an all too familiar debate: Buy a real tree, or buy an artificial one? There are benefits and drawbacks to both choices.
There is no question that nothing can replace the cozy holiday ambience of a real tree. Real trees have a unique look and a delightful pine scent that no artificial tree could ever hope to imitate. There is also something special about bundling up and going shopping for the perfect real tree. In addition to being aesthetically pleasing, real trees are environmentally friendly. They are usually grown on Christmas tree farms located throughout the United States and Canada. Each time a tree is harvested, new seedlings are planted. Used trees are, of course, completely biodegradable.
As anyone who has ever had a real tree in his or her home can tell you, however, there are some drawbacks to having a real Christmas tree. First, the pine needles shed like a long-haired cat in summer. While the tree is up, expect to have your vacuum out at least every other day. Real trees also require watering and daily monitoring to ensure that the tree is not getting too dry. This leads to the conclusion that real trees are lovely to look at and environmentally friendly, but they require a lot of work.
Artificial trees, while being more convenient than real trees, do require a fair amount of storage space each year. They also require assembly that can be time consuming. Artificial trees are significantly more expensive than real trees, especially those that are more realistic looking. The pros of artificial trees are that they last much longer than real trees, they don’t require any maintenance, they are more economical because you don’t have to pay for them every year, and there are many different types to choose from.
Ultimately, when it comes right down to it, it is up to the individual to decide whether a real tree is better than an artificial tree or vice versa. There are many pros and cons to take into consideration before purchasing either one. In the end, what matters is that you are happy with the tree that you chose, regardless of what your reasons were for choosing it.
Quick Tree Facts
- There are approximately 30-40 million Real Christmas Trees sold in Canada and the U.S. every year.
- An estimated 175,000 Real Christmas Trees are sold via e-commerce or catalogue and shipped mail-order.
- North American Real Christmas Trees are grown in all 50 states and Canada. Eighty-five percent (85%) of artificial trees sold in the U.S. are manufactured in China.
- Real Trees are a renewable, recyclable resource. Artificial trees contain non-biodegradable plastics and possible metal toxins such as lead.
- For every Real Christmas Tree harvested, up to 3 seedlings are planted in its place the following spring.
- There are about 550,000 acres in production for growing Christmas Trees in Canada and the U.S. Each acre provides the daily oxygen requirements of 18 people.
- There are about 22,100 Christmas Tree growers in Canada and the U.S., and over 100,000 people employed full or part-time in the industry.
- It can take as many as 15 years to grow a tree of average retail sale height (6 - 7 feet) or as little as 4 years, but the average growing time is 7 years.
The Earth is Cooling Down - Is Global Cooling Bringing On an Ice Age That Will Kill Off All Humans?
There certainly has been a lot in the newspaper and on TV about global warming. In fact, there has been more information on global warming than there ever was on Y2K, which if you’ll recall was to be the calamity of all calamities caused by mankind. There were almost as many articles on Y2K in the media as during the Cold War; you remember that of course we were all supposed to die by nuclear holocaust during an exchange of nuclear weapons with Russia.
Perhaps it is time that we get the facts straight about global warming. The global warming alarmist will have you believe that the Earth is heating up and yet what you might not realize is that the world set a global cool weather record in 2007. In fact, 2007 was the coolest in the last 16 years. What does this mean? Is global warming over or did it never really exist? Does the Earth really go through climate fluctuations and cycles and there is really nothing that mankind can do about it?
Or are humans and their activities such as the emissions of CO2 really causing our climate to heat up enough to melt all the ice caps and flood every human civilization that is less than 30 feet above sea level? Isn’t it time that humans stop believing everything they see in the media or hear on TV and start looking at the facts, which by the way are not docudramas meant to scare you and make Hollywood millions of dollars on movies. Something to contemplate in 2008.
7 Ways to Give Green
The holiday season has finally rolled around, and if you are still looking for gifts for a special someone, why not give green? It is quick, easy (mostly because it is done over the internet), and is the emotional equivalent of anti-guilt medicine. So, below are a few of my favorite green gift choices.
1. Carbon Offsets: Buying a carbon offset is like hiring someone to clean up behind you. Companies take your money and use it for reforestation, protection against deforestation and sometimes, investment into renewable energy. It takes only a Google search for “carbon offsets” to get a bazillion results.
2. Local Food: There is a very popular saying going around that is: “buy local, think global.” This means that you should support your local community, while still being a citizen of the world. (If you want me to get into more detail on the subject, please leave a comment, and I will definitely do it.) So, buy them a gift card for the local organic/health foods store, or maybe even some Farmer’s Market credit. Whatever you can do to support organic, local food is the best.
3. Public Transit: Buy someone a good supply of bus/subway tickets, because it is good for people to use the public transit system. Carpooling/mass transit in general is always better, because you are using the same (or a slightly greater) amount of energy to transport 100x the amount of people.
4. Reminders: Get your loved ones power-usage monitoring devices, like the famous KillAWat. These little devices let people know how much energy they are using, and therefore gives them more reason to move towards being green. They also help educate people about power usage in general. It is good to be farmiliar with something to really fight at it’s roots.
5. Personal treatment: Anything that doesn’t require major amounts of equipment, transportation or chemicals is always a good choice, so why not go for the personal treatment option? This entails a massage, yoga class, gym membership etc.-but make it local! If the receiver needs to travel a lot to use the gift, it is automatically not green. Also, if you are sending the person to a spa, make sure that they don’t use cosmetic chemicals. There are tons of spas that concentrate more on yoga, massage therapy and general health watching.
6. Electric Paper: If you know someone who subscribes to three news papers and eight magazines, offer them an e-book reader, or online newspaper subscription. Think about all of the paper you would save! Online subscription service is available for comics, and many other magazines as well. This gift really depends on the person, because some people can stand e-books and online newspapers, but others can’t, so you need to take that into consideration.
7. Green Kits: Buy your special people items to help make their lifestyle more environmentally friendly, for example: compact fluorescent light bulbs. They last for years, and use a lot less energy than incandescents. A lot of the time, people need a little help to get headed in the right direction, and you can be that push. You could really help that person get it together, because the time is now!
Think of Your Home As a Habitat and Help the Environment
Many people care about the environmental problems that humans are causing, such as chemical pollution and global warming. If you count yourself among them, then you are certainly interested in alleviating the worsening conditions on the Earth. The most obvious and easiest place to begin as an environmentalist is your own home and yard. With some research, care, and creativity you can nurture the Earth exactly where you live with your personal environmental cleanup and wildlife protection program.
I have undertaken this process myself with my yard, and I’m not alone in this approach. The winter 2008 issue of OnEarth magazine presented an article precisely about turning gardens and yards into habitats instead of semi-sterile landscapes. The article “How to Get Wild in Your Garden” by Amy Stewart reported that about one million acres are claimed by development in the United States every year, exacerbating habitat loss that kills off wildlife. With this in mind, imagine how a portion of distressed plant and animal species could be revived if suburban and even urban residents began to nurture habitats around their homes.
My natural interest in environmental problems latched onto my property in 2005 when I happened to visit a native plant nursery near my home. I wanted to add some shrubs to the back of my property that did not require frequent watering because the summers in my region are hot and dry. As I selected some native plants, the nursery worker mentioned how the blue elderberry would attract and feed birds, which was much better than popular ornamental varieties that did nothing for the local fauna. Great, I thought. I won’t have to work hard watering my new native species and birds will be happy.
With the realization that I could promote wildlife with what I planted in my yard, I became more actively interested in how I could nurture life upon my personal piece of the urban landscape.
With the new shrubs doing nicely, I turned my attention to my lawn and stumbled upon a book at the local library called “The Organic Lawn Care Manual.” The book informed me that lawns maintained with chemical fertilizers and pesticides are a source of millions of pounds of toxic pollution in our environment. Along with pesticides that pollute the land and water, the production of chemical fertilizers is energy intensive and therefore contributes to the release of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere.
For my property, pesticides and chemical fertilizers are permanently off the list. Upon learning that numerous household lawn chemicals are linked to cancer in children and pets, giving them up was easy. Now, I enjoy a lawn teeming with life. Granted it does not look like a golf course, but all manner of insects live there along with a wide variety of little native grasses and plants. All summer I spot beetles and praying mantises. I have toads hopping about, frightening me when I take the trash out in the dark, and birds forage for bugs in the chemical-free lawn.
The trend toward creating home and garden habitats is growing. The National Wildlife Federation even has a backyard habitat certification program. To qualify as a nurturing habitat, your yard must observe the following guidelines.
1. Chemical fertilizers, herbicides, and pesticides must be eliminated. This will stop your addition of toxic chemicals to the environment and make you learn how to maintain your property with organic practices.
2. Provide food for birds and insects by planting native species that produce the flowers, nuts, and berries that local fauna desire. Such plants will serve as the foundation of the food chain that you are creating for the habitat.
3. All habitats require a water source. Rain gardens, ponds, or birdbaths serve as wellsprings of life for amphibians, birds, and insects.
4. Wildlife needs shelter in various forms such as dense thickets, rock piles, or an old rotting log.
5. Along with shelter, you can work to provide nursery habitats like frog ponds and birdhouses where animals can reproduce.
Your personal environmental program in your yard will put you on the front lines of the environmental movement. Caring for the Earth starts exactly where you live. It might not be saving polar bears, but if you can stop putting toxic substances on your habitat and help out a few plants and animals, you will have accomplished something positive. The philosophy of backyard habitat building will also serve as a point of cultural shift. As humans we occupy large portions of the planet, especially the prime land. Where we live does not have to be a paved-over dead zone. The results are rewarding as well. Seeing how life can flourish within even the small space of a yard will inspire you with hope. You will enjoy the presence of the wildlife and you can count yourself among the residents of a healthy habitat. You are in control of the environmental health of a tiny portion of the Earth. Use your power to make positive choices..
Environmental Municipality Agencies Want Carwash Fundraisers to Use Waterless Products?
A few cities in California are asking non-profit groups to use waterless car wash products, instead of the old fashioned bucket of water and a sponge. Why? Because many municipalities are trying to find additional ways to save water and prevent storm drain pollution, which leads to the environment.
In Santa Monica there is a big push to do this by the city, yet amazingly enough the Santa Monica Bay is polluted because the sewer treatment plant overflows about twice per year. Worse, surfers are warned not to go in and no one dares eat the fish. But this has nothing to do with car wash fundraisers.
Well we must all realize that Dry Wash-n-Guard Waterless Carwash is sold as a Multi-Level Marketing Product right? It is very expensive per bottle. It takes 15 minutes to do a car with it as opposed to 5-minutes with a pressure washer. So the kids groups doing the “apple pie” traditional car wash fundraisers cannot possibly make the money they need using it.
In one online book adopted by the Storm Water Control district for the City of Los Angeles, you will find accepted BMPs or best management practices approved by the RWQD Regional Water Quality Control District, which fully comply with 13.262 of the California Water Code.
It is unfortunate that we attack non-profit groups with environmental laws and rules, which really do not apply, after all the Federal Clean Water Act of 1972 was for things like oil spills and strip-mining, not fundraiser car washes. So, who is pushing these new plans? Well, waterless car wash product companies, fresh out of environmental college municipal workers and carwash owners, who would like to see all that business come to their carwashes instead.