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GREEN HOME SHOW #30: From healthy Homes to healthy Schools: Part 2 Skit and Audience Going Green Questions
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Overall Segment #2 – 12:00
Sister Mary Chlorophyll - 6:00 Sponsored by: Energy Services Group
Father Shamus O’Toole & Sister Mary Chlorophyll and the Cafeteria Boycott
SMC: Good morning children... (Silence) I said good morning children!
Children: Good morning Sister Mary Chlorophyll
SMC: And good morning to you children. Due to recent events here at the school, we need to re-examine our situation and perhaps make some adjustments. Father Shamus O’Toole is here today to address the situation and to enlist your help children. I want you all to cooperate with him and give him the respect he deserves. Father?
FSO: Thank you Sister. Now children, it seems that some of you have taken the law into your own hands. And by the law, I mean the law of the lunchroom. Now you know that there is a plan for everything, and everything has a plan. The plan that we've had has been the plan that we planned for since we started plannin’. Now, it appears that some of you have a slight disagreement with the plan. As you know, some things in life are a mystery. And you just have to go on faith that they are true and they are right and they are simply non-understandable. That’s what faith is my pious little pipsqueaks. So I want you to call off this little boycott so we can try and get back to normal. Yes Tommy?
Tommy Toomey: Fatha, we understands mysteries and faith ‘cause we been eatin’ that mystery meat for the last tree years. But before, at least I had some faith that it wouldn’t kill me. But not no more! Now, I got no faith that we ain’t gonna die from it. So we wants to know what you're gonna do about it… we needs a new plan.
Jennifer O’Reardon: Yes Father, as much as I have to sit still every day with my hands folded, and I do, I simply cannot sit still and eat food that has processed ingredients that my system wasn’t designed to digest without making me another 60 pounds heavier than I should be. I mean all that stuff made from corn is in everything we eat… corn byproducts, corn syrup and other stuff too... it's spiking our insulin levels and making our bodies produce more fat, and that’s just not good for us. Did you know that high fructose corn syrup is so processed that it bears almost no chemical similarity to regular sugar or even regular corn syrup? And I fail to see how the school can justify both killing us and making money off of us at the same time with all those soda machines in the hallways.
FSO: Now, now children.... there are some things, believe me, that you’ll be able to have when you're all grown up, that are made from corn that you’ll think are very, very good for you. So all these food additives and all the processin’ is just getting’ you ready for all the stress that your gonna feel later in life when you're married. So you see in a funny way, we're preparing your body as well as your soul for the rough road ahead. Frankly, it's a lot easier to supply the cafeteria with this kind of food because it's cheaper. That means we have to rob the poor box a lot less than we would if we were to give you that wishful, wholesome, organic menu that you have posted all over the school. By way I don't think it's funny to have attached it to Sister Mary Ingénues backside without her knowin’. I do however applaud your ingenuity and how it was attached. Tommy Toomey and Anthony Sorentino will probably spend the rest of their lives in detention… or at least until we find out how to get it unglued.
So in short I want you to call off your lunchroom boycott.
Mary Righetti: Oh Father, we can't do that. It's too important when there are so many things that are connected to our lunchroom boycott that are good for our bodies, our local farmers, and our future. Respectfully Father Shamus:
- Buying locally grown produce helps support our community and our local farmers. It saves money and reduces carbon emissions by not having to be flown or shipped from a long distance away.
- Eating fresh produce is so much better for our bodies than eating processed foods. It's also less expensive as it cuts out an enormous amount of processing, shipping, and labor. Why it's just like when Jesus was born. Those three wise men traveled from afar and they had to feed those camels and tend to them, and it was a really expensive trip finding all that frankenstein and fur..... anyway why couldn't they listen to the wise men that live right next door? Ya know.....Larry, Moe and Curly.......I mean what did those guys have to say that the guys next door didn't...... so you follow my logic
- Local organic farming is better for the soil and it brings us closer to a sustainable eco-culture, which is what we’re gonna have to be ‘cause we’re destroying large parts of our planet by using pesticides, and using up materials from the earth for fertilizer that are needed other places.
- You know Father, I can go on forever… let's just put it this way... you see all those overweight kids over there? Well that's mostly from eatin’ a lot of processed foods and sugars. We get hooked on this stuff. Manufacturers can sell a lot of this stuff once we’re hooked on it. And have you seen these guys? They look like they're hooked on it too. Our young bodies can't process all that crap they’re puttin’ in the food and we now have an epidemic of obese kids in our country. It's as if we're numbing ourselves with food and people are making a lot of money off of it.
So you see Father, we just can't let this go on… and so we’re boycotting the lunchroom until they start serving us food that’s healthy, full of nutrients, mostly locally grown, pesticide free where possible, and they find us a cook that hasn't spent most of his adult life in a Turkish prison.
FSO: Well that's quite the manifesto you have there, Mary..... I fail to see how a few sodas and candy bars can be destroyin’ yer life. Why, when I was in the seminary we weren’t even allowed to eat for three or four days..... we'd be sneaking Sodas, candy bars and crackers from the cafeteria, and we lived just fine. I think the four basic food groups are present in a candy bar: chocolate, peanuts, corn syrup and caramel... so I just don't understand this at all.
Peter O'Reilly: That's what we been tryin’ to tell you fatha, you been eatin’ this stuff for so long, you haven't even noticed how bad it's gotten. I don't mind the occasional candy bar, or even the occasional soda. But a steady diet of this stuff along with processed food has caused an epidemic of obesity related diseases and ailments, not to mention the obesity itself, which is unprecedented in our society to this date. Did you know that about 80% of every health care dollar goes to an obesity related disease?
FSO: There's nothing wrong with being large Peter. Take Sister Mary Chlorophyll for instance. There she is, as big as a house, and look at her! She must be at least a hundred years old! You know how fit she is… she's been the soccer goalie for Saint Sebastian’s All Franciscan soccer league for 25 years... you can’t get a ball by her... and all she eats are snickers and the occasional Tab!
SMC: Actually Father, despite looking a hundred years old, I’m actually 47.
FSO: Sorry Sister… I just assumed…
Tommy Toomey: That’s just it! I think if she new what she was eatin’, she might stop eatin’ it and start eatin’ different.
Sister Mary: You know I think I could eat differently... I mean I could try... I think I may be ready to go over to the otherside... Father, you’re just going to have to fight this one alone!
(Students cheer)
FSO: Come on… ya know ya want it! Anthony, here’s a Baby Ruth! I know ya love ‘em. Peter, Michael, Joseph… have a Pepsi-Cola! Ya know ya can’t live without it! Rosemary… I’ve got those corn-puffs ya like so much! Vincent, Thomas, come on now children! Please, you’ve got to eat…
Listener Letters – 5:00 Sponsored by: CMI Electric
It’s time for Listener Letters. What do we have Doug?
- First question is from Hal Sutton of Felton, DE. Hal asks: How Come you guys don’t do more coverage on The Climate talks in Bali and The vanishing ice continents at the poles, and other important stories?....
It’s not our job to scare the crap out of you. We’re about solutions and what you can do… empowerment... it's not that we don't know about these disasters, and we try to keep up on the latest reports on the effects of global warming as it increases....
What we're about here is motivating individuals towards change. I believe that almost everyone is aware that our world is under attack, but by whom. It's us and our habits and our perceived needs and wants. These are the things that need to change. The answers are simple if you listen to the show. We repeat them all the time. What's difficult is getting people to change. And I'm including myself. The neat thing here is that I know exactly how hard it is to remember to do the things that we need to do, and to give up the things that we don't really need in order to save our planet. We find that our message and the information is oftentimes digested much more easily if it's fed with a spoon full of humor. Humor is also a great reminder that in the present moment things are just fine. However, I will give an example just because you asked…
I will talk about Atlanta, Georgia and its drought: it was as closely related to drought as to boom town sprawl and gluttonous drain of water.....50% plus for lawns...unbridled growth in urban areas around the city for the last 20 years. I think it’s simple now to see what happened with urban sprawl, but if you’ve read most of what's coming out in the press they're blaming lack of rain. City planners, bureaucrats, all good people and they are all deflecting the fact that they built up the city without an adequate water plan. Perhaps they should not have added that much draw on their finite water supply......etc....
- Our next question is from Barbara Wisonomer from Woodstoen, NJ. Barbara asks: What is the best single publication to read for new green info and tech?
This month my pick is...
The New York Times...Online ( save paper ) the Old Grey Lady has all of them beat. For starters, the long-standing "environment" tab in the Times' science section includes all the paper's thorough but lucid reporting from journalists like Felicity Barringer and Andy Revkin. But the Times goes beyond that, taking advantage of multimedia extras like an environmental news blog that launched last month and links to previous eco-related features. There's a video series called "Planet Us," and a page called "The Business of Green" that adds to the general uptick in green business reporting with stories about the intersection of environmentalism and commerce. Of course, the Times' coverage isn't perfect, and it's important that enviro-journalism not be limited to the single issue of global warming or ghettoized into overlooked corners of the paper (as opposed to overflowing into more traditional beats). But here's hoping the Times' clear commitment to green reporting will challenge other papers to follow its lead or, even better, surpass it. - Our last question comes from Tony Scarpatti of Wilmington, DE. Tony is curious: Can you explain how a solar panel makes electricity?
In 1839, Edmond Becquerel discovered the process of using sunlight to produce an electric current in a solid material. But it took more than another century to truly understand this process. Scientists eventually learned that the photoelectric or photovoltaic (PV) effect caused certain materials to convert light energy into electrical energy at the atomic level.
The photoelectric effect is the basic physical process by which a PV cell converts sunlight into electricity. When light shines on a PV cell, it may be reflected, absorbed, or pass right through. But only the absorbed light generates electricity.
The energy of the absorbed light is transferred to electrons in the atoms of the PV cell. With their newfound energy, these electrons escape from their normal positions in the atoms of the semiconductor PV material and become part of the electrical flow, or current, in an electrical circuit. A special electrical property of the PV cell—what we call a "built-in electric field"—provides the force, or voltage, needed to drive the current through an external "load," such as a light bulb.
