While explaining to my 5 year old grandson how paper is made from trees and why he should waste toilet paper, I looked for some info about paper making and harvesting forests. This let me to a site about coal companies destroying mountain tops in order to strip out the coal under them.
The website called www.ILoveMountains.org had a video that I posted below. One of the spokesmen in the video was Maui's own resident Woody Harrelson. It's pretty amazing the amount of forest land that is being destroyed and how much by-product and waste is left to cause problems.
On Maui we may primarily use oil, but many of the products we use can be traced back to energy derived from burning coal.
It's just one more of the many reasons that we need to do anything we can to encourage energy efficiency and sustainability. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle, in that order.
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