Jeffari-al-Texani wrote:
In a campaign that has spread like wildfire across the Internet, a group of Israeli environmentalists is encouraging Jews around the world to light at least one less candle this Hanukka to help the environment.
The founders of the Green Hanukkia campaign found that every candle that burns completely produces 15 grams of carbon dioxide. If an estimated one million Israeli households light for eight days, they said, it would do significant damage to the atmosphere.
"The campaign calls for Jews around the world to save the last candle and save the planet, so we won't need another miracle," said Liad Ortar, the campaign's cofounder, who runs the Arkada environmental consulting firm and the Ynet Web site's environmental forum. "Global warming is a milestone in human evolution that requires us to rethink how we live our lives, and one of the main paradigms of that is religion and how it fits into the current situation."
Cofounder Tom Wegner, who heads the public relations firm Update Marketing Media, spread the campaign via mass e-mails and through social interaction Web sites like Facebook and Hook.co.il. He said no money had been invested in the campaign, but it had already raised awareness around the world and made people realize that they have to consider the environment this Hanukka.
Who would have ever guessed?
load of bollocks,or is it? 
Must admit the things we do must add to global warming/carbon footprint blah,blah,blah.
Unfortunately,it seems to be the "buzzword" at the minute,thought it might have gone away for a while,as usually most stuff does after a couple of weeks,but me thinks the global warming/carbon footprint debate might be around for quite a while.
So we knacker the o-zone with our cars,but does anyone honestly think that the big oil companies and the major government of the world,namely the U.S really gives a toss?
The world has survived on oil and oil derivitaves for far too long.
The only oil company,as far as i know,which regularly invests in "other" renewable energy is B.P.
But this is on a very loose basis,by this is mean their solar projects in Africa.
(must hasten to add that i am a B.P shareholder)
and:
China is fastly becoming the biggest economy of the world, because of western consumer demand for cheap products,and is now the worlds BIGGEST polluter of the environment,although the U.S is the next worst.
Funnily enough one of the greenest/cleanest cities in the world is actually Sao Paulo,there they recycle everything,including the methane that old landfill sites produce in great quantities,this is used to powere several thousand homes.
as for global warming,spose it is true,as far as my part of the world is concerned,i mean, i have NEVER seen any moths or flies after late october,or perhaps the moths just came out of my wallet,i dont know. 
I dont really know where i'm going with this reply,eccept to say:
one mans ceiling is another mans floor? 
