No More Disposable Chopsticks?

What with SAGA suddenly switching over to "asian" dishes which include disposable bamboo chopsticks, I found this particularly entertaining. If a cafeteria that's trying to go "green" can't even keep up with China... we're not in good shape.

NPR: Bring Your Own Chopsticks to China

Also, though I'm not particularly experienced with wood, I've always been under the impression that even these "quickly regenerating" sorts of trees that they speak of don't grow back that fast, and I doubt that they're replanting at the same pace as they're cutting them down.

I didn't realize China had much forest left though... I hear more about the South American rainforests being chopped down for cows than any trees in China. Hmm... interesting.

Moving along, I happened to be looking around at the rest of this site, and I spotted a "featured blog" called The Carrot Revolution. Lo and behold, the latest post features Mao. While not precisely environmental, it is entertaining.