I am curious to know what environmental degradation paddlers have witnessed around the globe. Can you let me know what you have seen? Where is it located? What are the causes? Is there anything being done to correct the situation? I have been doing quite a bit of reading recently by Paul Hawken, Amory Lovins, and Hunter Lovins. The first book, Natural Capitalism, talks about the conversion of our economy and manufacturing practices to one that mimics biological functions, hence any waste becomes food for the creation of some other product. The other book, The Ecology of Commerce, points out the amount of environmental damage to forests, waterways, lakes, oceans, humans, and animals that the current economic system causes and gets away with for free as costs for environmental damage are not considered even if they are obviously going to occur. As a retailer of canoes and kayaks I am wondering how sensitive the manufacturers are or can be made to be with regards to the environment. How damaging is fiberglass, resins, plastics, etc? In a recent article in Time magazine there was a story on a machine that will allow for point of us manufacturing. Anything that can be created by resins could be done at the point of use. Hence, less waste, little waste, low inventory, low tooling costs. It points out that there is a motorboat company utilizing this digital controlled technology. Anxious to hear from you. I will track your responses and make it available to those interested. Ron Friedman Paint Island Canoe & Kayak 350 Farnsworth Avenue Bordentown, NJ 08505 609-324-8200 <A HREF="http://www.paintisland.com/">Paint Island Canoe & Kayak</A> *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - All postings copyright the author and not to be reproduced/forwarded outside PaddleWise without author's permission Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Fri Aug 11 2000 - 14:59:44 PDT
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