While a fall festival can provide some wonderful benefits, like teaching my kids about the colors of fall...the red apples, the orange pumpkins...and the "harvest" season as a whole, it still can have quite an environmental impact. The food waste and packaging, the plastic bouncy house (how is this "fall-like"?), the plastic freebies given out in plastic bags, etc. And let's not forget that the Chainsaw Chix will be there...how cool?! Women with chainsaws making art...beautiful sculptures out of wood. Love it, right? Well, I do love it actually and can't wait to see them create their art, BUT if you know me, you know I'm thinking about the trees that were killed for the art and wondering what powers their chainsaws. Are they gasoline powered or electric? What kind of carbon emissions do those let out over a whole day of cutting and shaping wood into art?
So the big question for me today is should I go to the fall festival tomorrow and ooh and aah over the incredible artwork and stay quiet or should I speak up and ask the Chainsaw Chix if they can consider powering their chainsaws with sustainably certified biofuels? What do you think? Should I shut up or speak up?
