Last year on Valentine’s Day, Rog made comment at this blog that “You would not believe the $millions no $billions spent on infrastructure to give the world flowers on 2 days of the year. And its all hi-tech cutting edge stuff too.”
Well this year there is a solution, virtual flowers. They apparently include traditional dozen roses, jauntier sunflowers and irises. By sending them over the internet, rather than buying the real thing, Hilary Osborne writing at The Guardian suggests you can become an eco-hero.
An eco-hero maybe, but probably definitely looking for a new Valentine.
Jennifer Marohasy BSc PhD has worked in industry and government. She is currently researching a novel technique for long-range weather forecasting funded by the B. Macfie Family Foundation.
An eco-hero based on delivery of a non-existent, virtual service? Why am I not surprised?
Is this a metaphor for a thousand gratuitous acts of planet salvation every day? Is that Peter Beattie’s life story in a single sentence?
Someone tell Bob Carr that he can sack his biographer, the jobs already done.
I was hoping for more than flowers…..
The infrastructure and manufacturing that powers “virtual flowers” is far more massive than moving physical flowers.
Meanwhile, physical flowers sequester carbon and if earlier posts are accurate, their duration in landfills is so great, and the value of sequestration so extreme, that no expense should be spared in sending flowers.
Just filing these links here: http://gristmill.grist.org/story/2007/2/13/141411/062?source=daily and http://www.amystewart.com/books.html
Don\’t worry Jim there\’s still lots of po r n available on the internet too.
Awaiting your evidence for those claims sshiller.
Nah, you have all got it wrong.
Now we are back to the real world …
“Roses are blue, violets are red,
If you don’t like GM foods, try flowers instead”.