mississippi = not green

Wandering through the Walmart tonight, I noticed these. Motion-sensor lights inside the fridges. Walmart has been putting these in all its newer stores -- one of a number of energy efficient policies designed to increase profits as well as its battered reputation.

I write about it now because its pretty shocking to see green initiatives around here. Mississippi doesn't even have recycling. Seriously. We keep a large box of old paper near our printer, but it is only recycling in name. Even if we wanted to recycle it, there is nowhere for it to go. It just ends up in our trash bags along with plastic bottles, aluminum cans, newspaper, glass bottles.....  We make a lame effort to compost, but its more out of guilt for all those other things than a real dedication to the environment.

The best thing about the motion-lights at Walmart though is not their energy saving abilities -- its getting to run down the aisle like a little kid and hear them all clicking and blinking to life as you pass by each one...